Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • Meryl's Umbrella (Avignon)
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Eden Grey. "I applied the collage and abstraction techniques to Meryl reading some poems in French by Andre Breton and Jean Cocteau. The chopping of her vocals also is making use of the chance method. The sound of the train is the base sound, as I re-imagined the sound with Meryl in a state of introspection and melancholy at the train station."
    5 min
  • Valle del Tambo, Otavalo, Imbabura, Ecuador
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Gabriela Yanez. "The used dadaist techniques in the piece are 2: abstraction, collage.
    I wanted to use the original recording as the background of the reimagined piece, so assigned a denoiser plugin and placed automation points by instinct (abstraction). This gave me the quiet-to- noisy structure I based the rest on. Then, I edited bird sounds and camera noises from other takes, plus a new element, processing and arranging them, starting a collage 4-layer collage."
    5 min
  • Dada animal showcase
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Juan Carlos Vasquez. "Collage 4 “Landscape” uses dadaist concepts to manipulate a single rich field recording taken in Cali, Colombia, featuring a soundscape of local fauna. The animals showcased are manipulated beyond recognition, extracted from meaning and radically reorganised having as a result a dadaist sonic fantasy."
    4 min
  • Fauna in Cali, Colombia
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Juan Carlos Vasquez. "Collage 4 “Landscape” uses dadaist concepts to manipulate a single rich field recording taken in Cali, Colombia, featuring a soundscape of local fauna. The animals showcased are manipulated beyond recognition, extracted from meaning and radically reorganised having as a result a dadaist sonic fantasy."
    3 min
  • Nottingham sonic photomontage
    By Larry Crywater. "Sitting next to a main station, the recording I got was a sort of photomontage or collage naturally. It’s got quite a lot going on whilst at the same time, it remains fairly mundane, with only snippets of conversations. I like that you have to listen fairly intently and work out what was happening and who may have said what.
    I made this field recording into what it is now through chance. I made this with the most ‘let-go’, non-planned, ‘see-what-happens’ approach I could, giving me the opportunity to thoroughly enjoy creating. I used instrument recording and tape recording techniques that I had just begun to play with previously.
    The original tea cup on the saucer early in the original recording is something I wanted to try playing with rhythmically later in the track; this also came about by chance after realising I could loop it in this way."
    11 min
  • Bratislava bridge collage
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Simon Lebel. "I started by chopping up small pieces of the raw recording. I consolidated the remaining audio and “stereoized” it, because it's MONO. And I finally pasted the selected small pieces of audio over with some volume and PAN automation.
    I only used raw audio, with no effects at all, no filters, no EQ, ...
    It's a collage, assemblage of sounds, typically a Dada technique."
    6 min
  • Granulated tram
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Laurence Colbert. "One thing I think the DaDa sound artists would have loved would be granular synthesis.
    This principle / process takes small samples or ‘granules’ of sound from a recording and scatters them about within a given time frame. This means you can explode any sound into molecular sized objects playing from different points in time very quickly - it can be reimagined rather like some kind of abstract expressionist painting, or more specifically in this case: DaDa sound poetry.
    The initial recording is of a Tram passing by in Oslo, Norway in August last year, and lasts for one minute.The reimagined sound, via granular synthesis: emerges from a particular tone, into scattered phonemes of the moving tram, progressing as the pieces of sound get smaller to a section that sounds like a fire crackling, and then back to a single tone; all in all lasting 2’51’’.
    Original: recorded on TASCAM DR-40 with WindCat.
    Reimagined: created on Ableton Live 9, using Granulator II"
    4 min
  • Oslo tram passing by, Norway
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Laurence Colbert. "One thing I think the DaDa sound artists would have loved would be granular synthesis.
    This principle / process takes small samples or ‘granules’ of sound from a recording and scatters them about within a given time frame. This means you can explode any sound into molecular sized objects playing from different points in time very quickly - it can be reimagined rather like some kind of abstract expressionist painting, or more specifically in this case: DaDa sound poetry.
    The initial recording is of a Tram passing by in Oslo, Norway in August last year, and lasts for one minute.The reimagined sound, via granular synthesis: emerges from a particular tone, into scattered phonemes of the moving tram, progressing as the pieces of sound get smaller to a section that sounds like a fire crackling, and then back to a single tone; all in all lasting 2’51’’.
    Original: recorded on TASCAM DR-40 with WindCat.
    Reimagined: created on Ableton Live 9, using Granulator II"
    1 min
  • The Parrots of Abbey Wood
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Peter Nagle.
    "Lesnes Abbey Wood is an ancient woodland on the very edge of Greenwich and Bexley boroughs, adjacent to the ruins of Lesnes Abbey. As well as being a nature reserve and a site of special scientific interest due to its bronze age features and fossil beds, it is home to a colony of parakeets, the descendents of escaped pets. This track is a collage of cut, stretched, filtered and processed versions of a single recording made in the wood in October 2015. Pehaps in these remodelled sounds of the wood's current inhabitants can be heard the ghosts of the old beasts lying bneath the earth in the fossil beds."
    12 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.