Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 1716: Anarchy in the UK (London riots)
    Recorded by Matthias Kispert.
    The breakdown of law and order: May Day 2001, Tottenham Court Road in central London. Watched by police helicopters circling above, but with few police in the street, anti-capitalist rioters are roaming around almost freely, smashing the windows of banks and shops while cheering each other on, occassionally running from a handful of police officers." – Matthias Kispert
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    6 min
  • 1715: Always There (London riots)
    Reimagined by Jeff Hinton.
    "My approach was to use a combination drone and skipping to symbolize to ebb and flow of protest and how it tends to come in and out of our lives. We take to the street and then we go home to our loved ones. Sometimes we are brought back to the heat of protest, whether we like it or not. Often it is always there."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    7 min
  • 1714: Back to Work (G20)
    Reimagined by Eduardo Abrantes.
    "Back To Work is an sound collage dealing with mysticism, utopian desire, and resistance, both for and against change. It includes manipulated samples of composer and Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen's (1098-1179) choral piece Canticles of Ecstasy, fragments of the original field recording in London, and a sample and slightly pitched detail of a voice of dissent, ironically against protest. Back To Work is about raising one’s voice, about the utopian mindset that often runs parallel to activism as its mystical counterpart, it is about a gathering of voices as a sonic ritual and the joy, melancholy, and weirdness of it all."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    4 min
  • 1713: London UK G20 (Andrulian reimagining)
    Reimagined by Andy Lyon.
    "I've taken the sound file, chopped it up and created the reimagining using the recently released Sensomusic Usine Hollyhock 3 and then mastered (in the very loosest sense of the word) in MuLab 7. I've tried to capture some of the chaos, calm, confusion and the unknown that this recording invoked when listening to it.
    I've used groove mangle in Hollyhock to create a rhythm from the chopped up sample and processed this with tremolator (Soundtoys) and Incipit (Inear Display).
    A siren in the sample has been processed with DDLY Dynamic Delay (iZotope), Fracture XT (Glitchmachines) and Spaces (Hornet).
    I've also used grain microloop in Hollyhock 3 with parts of the sample processed with DDLY Dynamic Delay (iZotope), Fracture XT (Glitchmachines) and Spaces (Hornet).
    I've used two parts of the sample where you can hear a band, one has no effects applied and the other is processed with DDLY Dynamic Delay (iZotope), Fracture XT (Glitchmachines) and Spaces (Hornet).
    I've also used the u-Drone sampler in Hollyhock 3 processed with Space Strip, Outer Space (both AudioThing) and Teufelsberg Reverb (Balance Mastering).
    There's also a chord sequence using Synthmaster 2.8 by KV331 audio."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    8 min
  • 1712: G20 protests, 2009 - music, bands and whistles
    Recorded by Ian Rawes.
    "G20 protests, 2009: Cyclists pedal eastwards along Tooley Street, sounding bells and whistles. Next, a jazz band leads a march northwards across London Bridge, followed by a battery-powered PA in a handcart, playing reggae."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    4 min
  • 1711: G20, London 2009 - protest, cheering and helicopters
    Recorded by Ian Rawes.
    "G20 protests, 2009: Crowd noise increases as the march reaches King William Street, with cheers and something like a cow-bell being struck. The noise redoubles when office workers are spotted peering from windows high up along Lombard Street."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    2 min
  • 1710: The soundtrack to my life
    Save 6music protest reimagined by Gary JC.
    "BBC 6Music provides the soundtrack to much of my home life. It is so ingrained in my family's daily lives that it seems almost unimaginable that at one time there might have been the need to save it through petition and protest.
    I lived for many years in South Africa and Germany where radio stations are peppered with advertising, and are often commercially swayed in programming decision-making. I returned to the UK with heightened appreciation for the BBC and its offerings. It also rendered me sensitive in terms of protecting the commons, of which the national broadcaster is just a part. While protecting a cultural institution may not seem as important as political struggle, I would argue that the two are interlinked. And, in this case, the public action worked, 6Music is still with us providing the soundtrack to many lives and homes such as mine.
    For my work, I wanted to create a short, somewhat dissonant audio collage representing the diversity of music that can be experienced on 6Music - from the African Jazz Precussion that might be heard on Giles Peterson, to brooding synth, strings and beats, perhaps more at home on Mary-Anne Hobbs - to fuzzy post-punk bass that might be heard on Iggy's Friday night show. The diversity of sounds that can be heard on 6Music makes it (in my opinion) something worth protecting, worth fighting for. My reinterpretation uses the protest recordings alongside diverse, disjointed fragments of music to create something not entirely musical, nor entirely non-musical."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    3 min
  • 1709: Save BBC 6music rally
    Recorded by Ian Rawes.
    "Radio presenters Andrew Collins (the main speaker) and Richard Herring address a rally of around 500 people, called in protest at the threatened closure of the BBC 6 Music radio station. The rally was held outside Broadcasting House in Portland Place, central London."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    4 min
  • 1708: Sound the Alarm
    Jeff Sessions protest reimagined by Laura Kilty.
    "I chose the sound file which features people protesting Jeff Sessions and his racist agenda in the US. The woman leading this ‘street theater’ demonstration speaks with passion and urgency, and I wanted to position her voice as the main element of my track. My aim is to have the sense of alarm she conveys- the alarm I too feel in relation to the hateful rhetoric, unlawful behaviour and unconscionable agenda of Trump and the GOP- to be the driving force in my piece."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    8 min
  • 1707: System Failure (LA march)
    LA anti-Trump march reimagined by Ron Freyenschlag.
    "The piece is composed solely of the provided recording of chants during a march in LA. Percussive or synthesizer-like sounds have been created by stretching, morphing and isolating small samples. Title and style of the track have been chosen due to the obvious clash between the logical necessity of bodily autonomy and the patriarchic view of female bodies having to be regulated by old men who don't even understand their functions properly."
    Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
    4 min

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