Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • Mondo Rondo
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Valerie Vivancos. "I used the dada techniques of chance, collage, abstraction and assemblage by working on a 'found' sound from the archive and slicing it into 24 segments (each lasting 5 seconds), visually collaging them in a sound editor and abstracting them towards a composition of fluctuating loops to render the spirit of the (imagined/distorted) merry-go-round tune in the original recording. "
    5 min
  • Fiesta di Maria, Sardinia
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Stephen Shiell.
    " I took my inspiration from Hugo Ball’s sound poem practice, and the number 100. I selected a field recording of a religious festival in Sardinia, with fireworks and a dog barking. By splicing the field recording into its abstract parts and reconfiguring it I have evoked a surrealist version of god, and, by chance, reimagined the chant to Saint Maria into a chant for ‘dada’. I edited my field recording into 10 parts, then I edited each part into a 1 second clip, leaving me with 10 seconds of audio. Next I multiplied each clip by 10, giving me 100 clips. These were then collaged across ten tracks and sequenced to play continuously. I listened for the perfect sequence and recorded the final 100 seconds - 1 minute 40, hence the title ‘140 poem’."
    4 min
  • Mercado Publico de Porto Alegre, Brazil
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By The Rise and Fall of Ice-Pick Lobotomy
    " Our final Dada piece was a random collage of 5 different layers. First the original 5 minute long field recording without any treatment. Then a layer of small musical pieces from a second field recording where we performed an improvised duet with a 2 year old boy on a "free" piano which is installed inside the market, as part of a cultural project done by the city's administration. There's a layer of radio being dialed. Fourth is the original field recording passing through 6 different effects pedals, controlled by chance operation with a dice. And finally a filtered version of the original file."
    5 min
  • Porto Alegre mercado publico collage
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By The Rise and Fall of Ice-Pick Lobotomy
    " Our final Dada piece was a random collage of 5 different layers. First the original 5 minute long field recording without any treatment. Then a layer of small musical pieces from a second field recording where we performed an improvised duet with a 2 year old boy on a "free" piano which is installed inside the market, as part of a cultural project done by the city's administration. There's a layer of radio being dialed. Fourth is the original field recording passing through 6 different effects pedals, controlled by chance operation with a dice. And finally a filtered version of the original file."
    6 min
  • 140 poem
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Stephen Shiell.
    " I took my inspiration from Hugo Ball’s sound poem practice, and the number 100. I selected a field recording of a religious festival in Sardinia, with fireworks and a dog barking. By splicing the field recording into its abstract parts and reconfiguring it I have evoked a surrealist version of god, and, by chance, reimagined the chant to Saint Maria into a chant for ‘dada’. I edited my field recording into 10 parts, then I edited each part into a 1 second clip, leaving me with 10 seconds of audio. Next I multiplied each clip by 10, giving me 100 clips. These were then collaged across ten tracks and sequenced to play continuously. I listened for the perfect sequence and recorded the final 100 seconds - 1 minute 40, hence the title ‘140 poem’."
    2 min
  • Industrial chemistry lab, Keski-Pohjanmaan aikuiskoulutus
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Rene Kita. "I recorded myself declaiming Hugo Ball's famous sound poem Gadji beri bimba.
    Then I replaced each syllable with a randomly picked bit of sound from the
    laboratory field recording. Since you have two ears, I made one track for each ear."
    19 min
  • Hugo Ball in a chemistry lab
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Rene Kita. "I recorded myself declaiming Hugo Ball's famous sound poem Gadji beri bimba.
    Then I replaced each syllable with a randomly picked bit of sound from the
    laboratory field recording. Since you have two ears, I made one track for each ear."
    2 min
  • Royal Victoria Park, Bath
    Birds, people and traffic in Royal Victoria Park, Bath. Recorded by Cities and Memory. Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    4 min
  • Paris Dadaphone
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Guillaume Loizillon. "This composition is a wandering in Paris in January 2016. We cross streets or places,
    which remind us in memory some personalities of Dada. The Marcel Duchamp, Tristan
    Tzara, Jean Arp streets, the Hausmann boulevard (which is not the one of Raoul !) and the
    quay Voltaire, far from the Zurich cabaret. In this Parisian landscape build with names of
    some of its places, we meet Duchamp, Man Ray, Tzara, Max Ernst, and Raoul Hausmann
    who still reside in the city with their voices. Some foreign sounds were also clandestinely
    invited in the soundscape.
    Among it, a few bars of Tchaikovski: the public garden of which goes along the Tristan Tzara
    street.
    The piece is thought as a phonomontage, tribute to the photomontages of Hanna Höch. The
    general shape is built by drawing lots of the various Parisian recordings. The audio documents
    of the Dada personalities were then inserted along the piece as well as the foreign sounds into
    the rumours of Paris, in echo to Duchamp and Man Ray evoking the diversion of the objects.
    Sonic elements:
    Parisian field recordings made in Paris (January 2016) : Guillaume Loizillon
    Various field recordings (River, insects in Athens, storm), electronic sounds : Guillaume
    Loizillon
    Extract of “Casse noisette” : Tchaikovski
    Audio documents, extracts from:
    (source, ubuweb)
    Marcel Duchamp: BBC interview, 1968
    Marcel Duchamp: “A propos des ready made” interview with Ph. Colin, Paris 1967
    Raoul Hausmann: “Dada For Now”, 1959
    Man Ray: Interview (no date)
    Max Ernst: Interview, 1960
    Tristan Tzara: “Dada into surrealism”, 1959"
    11 min

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