Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 1765: Kurds Against ISIS
    Oxford's Kurds protest against ISIS - reimagined by Blaz Lusin.
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    5 min
  • 1764: Social Immune System (LA)
    Occupy LA reimagined by Philip Mantione.
    "Social Immune System was created using the field recordings I made at the Occupy LA demonstrations (October 15, 2011) in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Included are voices from the protest including John Densmore (x-drummer from the Doors), Peter Joseph (founder of the Zeitgeist movement), text from a poem by Etheridge Knight (read by Densmore), text written and read by Joseph including a quote by John McMurtry which inspired the title of this piece.
    This is a stereo version of a 16-Channel piece included in the ZEPPELIN 2011 - SOUNDS IN CAUSE festival at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona – December 9-10, 2011."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    10 min
  • 1763: Call and Response (Occupy LA)
    Occupy LA protest recorded by Philip Mantione.
    Los Angeles City Hall
    200 N Spring Street
    Los Angeles, CA 90012
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    2 min
  • 1761: Subterranean protest, Malaga
    Recorded by Chinowki Garachana.
    "In May of 2012 was held in Spain a general strike defending Public Education against the cuts. In Malaga, the concentration overflowed and became a demonstration of more than 5000 people that walked the streets of the city and went through the tunnel of the Alcazaba."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    10 min
  • 1760: A Peace for the Dog (Portland)
    Trump protest reimagined by Michael Trommer.
    "This track is imagined as a both loving and mournful perspective on the fate of humanity from the viewpoint of a dog…a sardonic requiem about the beauty and apparent futility of the act of protest."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    11 min
  • 1759: It Means "Light" (Speaker's Corner)
    Speaker's Corner recording reimagined by Jonah Elrod.
    "This piece was inspired by the location where the original sound recording took place, at the Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park in London. People have been speaking and protesting there since the mid 1800s, and the source recording, to me, represents a tiny snapshot of the total collection of exchanged ideas. This hyper-object, something that we cannot experience within our short lifetimes, is represented by crowd noise rapidly speeding up and slowing down throughout the piece."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    5 min
  • 1758: Keine Mauern (Bremen)
    Bremen protest reimagined by Drew Bluetree (Fevered Shiva).
    "I chose the source material because it had several interesting elements in it - a drum rhythm, a melodic piece, spoken voices and a rhythmic protest chant. I decided to recreate the drum rhythm and use this as the foundation of the track. After some experimenting I decided it would go well with a bouncy techno groove. I then sliced small snippets of vocal grunts out of the source sample and arranged these in tribal stabs to get a nice call and response feel. I took some slices of the melody ("When the Saints Go Marching In") and created something new with the notes. I used the protest chant as a chorus and emotional "heart" of the track. It was lots of fun to play with the source material and take it somewhere new!"
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    8 min
  • 1757: Reclaim the Night (reimagined)
    Reclaim the Night protest reimagined by Dave Santorum (ErisianLib).
    "Women unite. Reclaim the night.
    Tried to represent the chaos of a night out in London.
    Original recording dominated by chants, whistles, tambourines and cheers. The whistles are used to represent a rhythm but finally in its more traditional role - as an alarm.
    The piece owes a little to a concept in The Tin Drum by Günter Grass - Oskar transforms a Nazi rally by playing syncopated rhythms beneath the podium. Taking the voices and sounds of protest and layering with more traditional "party" noises hopefully contrasts the very serious message and allows the listener to excuse the repetition."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    6 min

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Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world.