Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 1498: Respect in Sound (Kyoto)
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    Reimagined by Gusset.
    "This is a remix made entirely using sounds from the original field recording. The first half respectfully represent the source material and second half tests the limits of what could be done with."
    8 min
  • 1495: Remembering Remembrance Day
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    Reimagined by Ronan Glish.
    "Given the task to reimagine the readings from this remembrance day service posed a peculiar challenge of keeping the sombre tone of the Paris attack (mentioned in the recording), whilst also celebrating the hard work of all those serving in the armed forces (as also mentioned in recording). I tried to give this feel by creating a choral wailing timbre, harking back to a lament often found in early english church music, whilst staying mainly in functional modern day harmony.
    The piece was created using a mixture of a Korg Minilogue for the brass sound that quotes fragments of the reveille, and a sub to add a bit of rumble. The rest of the sounds were made from sections of the original recording, In my typical style of resampling, bouncing, and repeat (Until the sound is no longer recognisable). The main wailing synths were created using snippets of the bagpipes found within the recording, using a mixture of Echoboy and many other outstanding Soundtoy plugins (possibly my favourite creative effects) to drag the sound from its original timbre, embracing all glitches, faults and artefacts that come with this production style.
    Mixed using Steven slate plugins, on Ableton, on a pair of HD650's as my monitors got banned at university.
    This piece was a joy to imagine and work on, really pushing my creative boundaries, and forcing me to sit down a create a good length piece of music."
    7 min
  • 1492: Nether Lands 062
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    Reimagined by Tariq Emam.
    "Nether Lands 062 is a ‘reimagining’ of organ music accompanied by voice, or is it voice accompanied by organ? This piece presents three approaches to the sounds of Keizergrachtkerk in Amsterdam from a field recording by Larva Peruzzotti.
    Cut, processed, drowned, bastardised. Put together, remixed, musicalised. Or thereabouts.
    [This piece was chosen, quite late on in the call and, from the choices, included the best quality of recording that could be worked with. There was little-to-no microphone handling noise or disturbances thereof, the presence of the recordist was absent, and the sonic qualities within the recording were composer-friendly and allowed for many, many approaches to its reimagining. I chose three techniques which, once processed and mixed, allowed for tonal and timbral relationships to be made through crossfades. These included time-stretching, filtering, sequencing, looping, and use of high-feedback delays.]"
    8 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.