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Reimagined by Robin Parmar.

"This composition was created from Melissa Pons' recording of a church congregation in Sweden, made in the moments before the organ processional. She writes: "I have been fascinated by what happens in a room where the audience is waiting for the music to start". What exists in the space before listening?"

Recorded by Vladlen Tepes.

Ternopil train station, reimagined by Vladlen Tepes.

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Recorded by Simon Serc.

"The chapel cavern from World War I, built by the Austro-Hungarian Infantry Battalion in 1917.

On the altar there is an inscription: "Blessed Virgin be the protector of your folk.""

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Reimagined by Richard Fair.

"I chose this audio because of the ambience and overall sense of isolation. I wanted to warm it up. I found a rhythm within the drops of water and simply let my imagination take me away from the hustle and bustle of December and January."

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Reimagined by Antonia Bustamente. "I cut some pieces of the file and made loops to create a rhythmic sequence. I used also some delays and Logic fx."

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Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral reimagined by Scott Lawlor.

"I used that sound because I am a big fan of church bells and I enjoy creating ethereal otherworldly audio excursions for the mind.

I took the sample and ran it through various Vst plugins, then reversed the sound, added reverberation, reversed it again, pitch shifted it by 35%, blurred the sound by running it through paul stretch by setting the stretch value at 1 and the resolution at 8, and finally added more reverberation using the adaptiverb plugin. After all that, I took out some midrange frequencies, increased the highs and created a second copy of the track which I then increased the speed of by 75%. I then added random panning to this second track, time stretched it by a factor of 2 with a resolution of 1 and then gradually mixed it with the first track.

After doing all that, I made a second copy of this mix, ran it through a filter and another reverb plugin, then mixed it with the first copy which I reversed beforehand."

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Tirana mosque reimagined by Radio Hummingbird.

"admittedly, i had a few quite different tracks on my wish list

before breaking it down to my two favourite choices with both

tracks in my final selection being hugely different to one

another. one featuring very quiet and subtle sounds within a

natural environment whereas my final choice features an urban

environment with a rather outward call to prayer. an important

factor for my interest in a piece has not only been its actual

sound but the sound in context with its location.

i have never been to albania but the images of this country which

appeared in my imagination are rather intriguing. a place as

familiar as inconceivable. specious and overwhelming. a challenge

of extraordinary beauty (like so many other places on this

planet).

i am not a great believer in anything other than spirituality and

mutual respect. however, at a time in which most connotations of

islamic practice are being feared and treated with deep suspicion

i felt it is important to focus on the actual beauty each and

every culture is able to create since the beginning of time.

deeply musical chants being released as wavering melodies

constantly filling space and perception. melodic and spherical.

unique. it is time to immerse ourselves in the diversity of this

world again instead of erecting cultural walls and national

boundaries. this used to be practice of the past. and it would be

better for all of us if it would stay this way......

apart from using and modifying the source track in a variety of

ways, i also included a variety of my own field recordings from

different locations of this planet as well as using a modular

synthesizer to emanate the principal melodies to create additional

soundscapes influenced by the source. this is intended to capture

my sonic imagination of a simple walk down the road somewhere in

tirana at a random day whilst just being immersed in my own

thoughts. nothing else."

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Recorded by Kamen Nedev.

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Recorded by AJ Born.