Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • Pasqua (Villa del Conte)
    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. My recording process involved cutting the sound file up into short chunks and syllables, then imported them into Logic’s EXS24 sampler for processing. I then added guitar, bass, keyboards and drums.
    I wanted to create a sense of rhythm by using repeated phrases. I also had the story behind Easter in the back of my mind (betrayal, crucifixion and resurrection) so have used three parts."
    5 min
  • How a man is marked (Basilica San Salvatore dei Fieschi)
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    Reimagined by Alex Hegyesi.
    "I imagined how is a man marked by a religious service what he has in mind what he heard and how bothered he is by everyday problems, all this mixed trying to keep clean thoughts.
    Dan Zibarov - voices
    Alex Hegyesi - dulcimer, soprano recorder, bass, fx, mixing"
    6 min
  • They Call You (Venice)
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    Reimagined by Nicolas Vermeulin.
    "The starting file is a soundtrack of a monastery in Venice, the bells ring and we hear tourists. What attracted me in this sound is the dry aspect, this is “antinomic” because the city is on a humid zone. I started on the idea that bells animate a sacred machinery. Venice being close to the myths of submerged cities like Herbauges and Ys. One can hear in my sonorous proposal, woods crack, machinery as well as a kind of big bubble of soft air bouncing. The bells sound as they can alert. The words of the end slam to buckle on the dry theme of the starting file and on the sacred myth where whatever they could hear, none of them should turn around: "They call you"."
    3 min
  • Sacred Sarah Sands
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    Reimagined by Bill McKenna.
    "Why I chose that recording? Well, in a sense, I didn't actually choose that file. I jumped on this project rather late - about 2 weeks ago - and there wasn't much left to choose from. So, I decided to grab the church organ recording of the infamous "Danny Boy" song because it's ubiquitous and rather annoying... even for a Mick like myself.
    Approach? I wanted to do some post-modern fuck up of the recording but I ended up feeling like I didn't have the time nor the skills to do so. Instead, I ran the track backwards, stretched it a bit, added some vibrato, spectral gate and a little distortion and then recorded some extra synth notes: some strings, a bit of organ, ambience and other riffs.
    I sat with it for a few days and then I attacked it again. But I think I always wanted to go for a minimalist approach. Then I put it away again.
    When I came back to it, I felt like it was some strange ghostly homage to my ancestors and to all the lost and desperate immigrants today, sailing on makeshift rafts or overcrowded, filthy boats or even nightmarish coffin ships... which is what some called the vessels traveling west to America in the 19th century."
    4 min
  • English Reformed Church (Hell remix)
    Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces
    Reimagined by AJ Born.
    "When I listened to this, I liked the choir, the organ and the melody.
    The process of reimagination was just open it with Audacity, use parts of the music, forward, backward and adding some reverb and echo. In addition there is the first and last seconds without music combined forward and backward - this is not exactly a beat, but kind of. And as third element, I stretched the music to about 10 minutes and used a bit of that. So that is a 3 minutes remix now and with the forward and backward singing, I thought it sounds a bit diabolic (probably it reminds me on strange movies I have seen) and called it "hell remix"."
    3 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.