Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 1572: Relentless rhythm, emptiness and coldness
    Zima train station, Siberia, recomposed by Richard Watts: "It’s made up of samples of voices and the train sounds. The idea was to have a relentless rhythm based on the train noise samples, invoking the long journey to get there, and then have melodies that give the impression of emptiness and the coldness of Siberia."
    4 min
  • 1570: The Runner in the Gric Tunnel
    Reimagined by Simon Woods.
    "I knew nothing of this tunnel prior to starting on this piece. I have learned a lot through researching this hidden gem.
    The Gric tunnel was used for an underground rave and so the music is of a ‘similar’ style.
    Also within its history, it has been a wartime shelter – hence the distant explosions.
    The kick drum sound is built form the sound of the runner through the Gric tunnel in Zagreb.
    All the reverb sounds are made from an impulse made from footstep from the source recording and put through a convolution reverb – the idea being that it sounds as if it is in the tunnel, but without such a reverb long tail.
    The piece starts with a lone saxophonist busking in the tunnel and ends with it.
    The 808 cowbell sound is my little tribute to the late Ikutaro Kakehashi, head of Roland, a man who did actually change music! He died the day I started this project.
    Equipment / Software used
    Cakewalk Sonar, Sound Forge, Spectrasonics Omnisphere and Trillian, UVI Falcon, Saxlab, Native Instruments Kontakt, AAS String Studio VS-2, SASquatch Kick Machine, Gforce MTPro, Rematrix Reverb, Har Bal Mastering and IK Multimedia T-Tracks CS."
    3 min
  • 1569: Inside the Tunel Grič
    Field recording taken inside the Tunel Grič in Zagreb, Croatia by Mark Wilden.
    The tunnel consists of a central hall, which is connected by two passageways to Mesnička Street in the west and Stjepan Radić Street in the east, and four passageways extending to the south. It was built during World War II by the Ustaše government to serve both as a bomb shelter and a promenade, but following the war it quickly fell into disrepair and disuse. The tunnel saw renewed use only in the 1990s, hosting one of the first raves in Croatia, and functioning as a shelter during the Croatian War of Independence. In 2016, the tunnel was remodeled and opened to the public, serving as a tourist attraction and hosting cultural events.
    1 min
  • 1567: Changing the rail gauge - Belarus
    Field recording taken from inside a Russian Railways sleeper train in the train depot on the Poland-Belarus border at Brest, where the carriages are lifted off their bogies for replacement to the Russian rail gauge. Recorded by Mark Wilden.
    12 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.