Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • Before the listening begins (Stockholm)
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    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?"
    6 min
  • Sir Galahad and the Fiend (Holme Lacy)
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - visit www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces for more information.
    St. Cuthbert's, Holme Lacy reimagined by Nick St. George.
    "I chose the organ playing from St Cuthbert's Church in Herefordshire as I felt the slabs of sound would be good raw material for manipulation. I then delved a bit into the history of the church which it turns out contains a stained glass window featuring two of the Knights of the Round Table; one of whom is Sir Galahad. Thanks to the Gutenberg Project, I found a 1918 Longman's school edition of the tales of King Arthur online, which included this tale of Galahad and the Fiend - a suitable story for this project with its comment on who may or may not merit being called a true Christian...
    Having been involved in gathering the field recordings for Sacred Spaces, I supplemented the basic track with some bell ringing and further organ playing that was recorded in two of Bristol's redundant churches, but was surplus to Cities & Memory's requirements.
    All the audio in this piece is, if you like, "organic" (sorry about the pun): organs, bells, Chinese Baoding balls, human voice. Treated, yes, but there are no sounds of purely digital origin present."
    7 min
  • The Chapel Cavern (reprise)
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    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."
    4 min
  • The Chapel Cavern, Mrzli Vrh, Slovenia
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    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.""
    6 min
  • Via Crucis
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    Reimagined by Richard Watts.
    "I use Logic Pro X to do my composing and recording. I started the piece with a loop of the background sound put through a Ringshift modulator plugin and a distortion plugin in Logic. I then added a pad sound and a couple of guitar parts. The voices and child laughing are taken from the original recording and added as samples to the Alchemy synth plugin (some have been reversed). The drum beat that starts half way through is produced from samples of the high heeled shoe sound in the original recording.
    This piece seemed to evolve on it’s own though I wanted a sense of the journey in the original recording. As St Jakobi was consecrated as a church of seafarers and fishermen I also wanted some reference to the sea so used a flowing modulation on the background sound."
    5 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.