Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • Farewell in the City (Edgware Road, Bakerloo)
    Reimagined by Philippe Blache and Jessica Peace.
    "collaborative work between the dark ambient artist Philippe Blache (Day Before Us) and voice sound artist Jessica Peace. This textured piece reimagines sounds extracted from the London underground (Metropolitan Line). The sounds are then distorted, mixed with piano, electric organ waves, vocals and human breath to surround the "non place" (space of "transient activity" in the anthropological perspective or the "place of passage". "
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    5 min
  • They Dream Their Sleep (Victoria tube station)
    Reimagined by Jeff Dungfelder.
    "I reimagined the Victoria Tube Station field recording by considering sound in the context of dreaming (particularly dreaming underground). This comes from watching and photographing sleeping people on the subway in New York City, and fascination with my own dreams. The act of dreaming while traveling underground seems universal. I aim to capture the thoughts, visions, and feelings one might experience in London, New York, or anywhere in the world.
    The selection of the Oblique Strategies card, "Think: Inside the work, Outside the work," further influenced me in the creation of this song.
    The song's title is taken from a favourite line in an E.E. Cummings poem: “...all by all and deep by deep, and more by more they dream their sleep”."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    6 min
  • 200 Charing Crosses
    Charing Cross reimagined by Ron Freyenschlag.
    "The approach to the piece, using nothing but the field recording provided, is partly inspired by the hectic atmosphere of the average underground station, with quite a bit of chaos and sudden changes in schedules, disorientation of people and such. The beats, patterns, bars and tempo tend to be break, get lost and not fully satisfy expectations of the listener. Beneath that lies the rumbling of machines that has been generated using the crowd noise. This noise has been edited using 200 ‘playheads’ simultaneously in Supercollider, transforming it even more into a static sound layer that could then be treated to some low frequency distortion, resulting in the different humming stages present in the piece that oscillates somewhere between noise, glitch and broken beats."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    4 min
  • Kilburn Park's story
    Kilburn Park reimagined by Canis Arboris.
    "I composed the piece in my usual way - the field recording was a core around which I wound the rest of the structure. I weaved in some synth sounds and a distorted guitar, appearing from a distance at some point. This is my approach to working with such recordings. Most of the time I am inspired by the atmosphere of recording and I try to figure out the way to extend naturally the sounds that exist there or how to express the sounds that I hear in my head when I listen to a given location. I also try, rather unconsciously I think, to make a track evolve like a story."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    6 min
  • Scope (Mile End station)
    Mile End reimagined by Anne Lepere.
    "The Scope of my dream was melting ... At first, on the upper side ... I was hearing something like a fireworks, strange sounds in the middle of the day... Watching carefully, I realized it was not lights or fire in the sky, but human people... They where falling dawn heavily... making the earth tremble
    Then I reach the underground... In spite of the frightfulness of the upper, people were playing music, there in the subway, a light was penetrating the subterranean ... people were keeping busy at work...
    A vertical travel in the depths. "
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    8 min
  • Make The Good One Turn (South Kensington)
    South Kensington reimagined by Leanne Cunningham.
    The piece was encouraged by my relations with The Smiths track “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want”, featured within, as I hold personal memories and associations with it.
    It prompts memories of the winter period of 2013, as I purchased the CD in Manchester that year. As a result, this track reflects and emphasises those feelings of loneliness and also happiness through personal recordings. It commences with passing conversations, accompanied with the sounds of my lonesome walks and train rides, acknowledging my current relations with the city of London."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    3 min
  • Oxford Circus' Soul
    Reimagined by Pietro Bardini.
    "My intention was to distill the main tone of Oxford Circus from the chaotic sounds of the station. To do this I created a series of 6 convolution reverbs, each reverb had as impulse response the whole recording itself. This technique created a sort of feedback reverb on the main harmonics of the sounds."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    5 min
  • Find The Gap (Mansion House)
    Mansion House reimagined by Morgan Davies.
    "The inspiration for constructing this piece came from a moment on the original field recording (which captures a delayed journey on the circle line from Mansion House tube station to Canon Street), where the all-too-familiar sound of a strange, digitally disembodied man warns us: “Mind the gap between the train and the platform edge”. At the moment when he utters the first syllable of the first word, the train makes a sound – possibly air escaping from the brakes – and this coincides with the man’s voice, giving the illusion that he has said “Find the gap”.
    Using this idea of escape as a starting point, I created an atmospheric backdrop of sounds that sit behind the full length of the original recording (5 minutes and 5 seconds), slowly building towards a journey that takes the passengers, not to Canon Street, but away from the chaos and alienation of the city, and finally back to a more soothing natural environment."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    6 min
  • Suboystering (Tower Gateway)
    Tower Gateway reimagined by Stephane Marin.
    "When I heard for the first time this recording I definitely felt very excited to compose with these very loud sub bass and all these rhythmic patterns which hit my ears immediately. I wished to revealed some of the musical potential of this raw field recording but also delving it deeper into a kind of cyber-punk space..."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    5 min
  • The Waves of Leicester Square
    Reimagined by Jan-Morten Iversen.
    "The main idea that woke in me upon hearing the orginal recording was simply
    to to a series of cut-outs of smaller sound and use these to create a more
    melodic wave-like track, then to be layered with longer extracts from the
    original to assure the feel of the original recording/the station was kept.
    The waves paints a picture of comings and goings, the pitched elements and
    the original elements gives a calm to the chaos. I tried to do more of a
    "songstructure" to this track; a few ups and dows before something like a
    crescendo towards the end before i leave the station."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    8 min

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