Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • Memories of Rio de Janeiro
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Antonia Bustamente.
    "Starting with the sound of the subway, the sound of travel and movement, I used collage and repetition to configure my own memories of Rio de Janeiro:
    "How can anyone hope to order the chaos that constitutes that infinite, formless variation: man?"
    3 min
  • Chicago Metra - Fontana mix
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Jessica Fenlon - reimagining of Metra boarding platform sounds, Chicago.
    "This is a more sophisticated DaDa approach - there is a fixed design unfolding over time managing the remix, some of which is generative from the sound files. . . I used a software that remixes the tracks fed into it using algorithms aligned with the rules which determined John Cage's piece, Fontana Mix, for this track. Automation allows for a 'plug and play' generative approach. The 'recipe' for casting the geometries was determined by the programmer. "
    7 min
  • Chicago Metra - Sapling mix
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Jessica Fenlon - reimagining of Metra boarding platform sounds, Chicago. "I loaded the four samples (#1 doubled) into this remix tool, and manipulated multiple looping parameters on the fly. I used randomization whenever possible. Parameters included - forward / backwards, loop length, volume, and speed. I also randomize the effecting added to the sound envelope. I had the app output the manipulations I was doing on the fly as a sound file. This track is a frozen performance of manipulating the cutup rules."
    11 min
  • Metra boarding platform, Ogilvie Transportation Center, Chicago
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Jessica Fenlon. "Metra is a regional rail service featuring double-decker train cars, with two terminals in downtown Chicago. Both terminals use the same audio recordings of a feminine voice naming the track numbers. The station I did NOT record is named Union Station.
    The two spaces are architecturally distinct. The gates are structured differently. The OTC gate(s) allow sound bleed from all gates into one large space. A passenger for any train can hear the track announcement for many of the nearby tracks, in ways that a passenger at Union Station cannot.
    Normally passengers are hustling across the 40 foot platform to find their train, with the sound of each track being named by a digital announcer-voice reverbing in the space. I made the three field recordings on days when I was using the station but arrived either early or had time after ending my trip to record an acoustic experience.
    I noticed that you asked us to use a single field recording; I did use three recordings from three different days. They were each recorded in the exact same location - the boarding / unloading platform of Ogilvie Transportation Center. The consistency of the recordings points to the consistency of acoustical experience of the space, something I noticed over the years of using this boarding platform on my commutes.
    Title represents my sense of affinity with these kiosk-voices endlessly naming the track numbers and the now-ubiquitous numbers station recordings from Europe. Here, the kiosk-voice is giving a local listener directions, signaling directions endlessly whether the station is empty or bustling."
    3 min
  • Chicago Metra Number Station, part two
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Jessica Fenlon. "Metra is a regional rail service featuring double-decker train cars, with two terminals in downtown Chicago. Both terminals use the same audio recordings of a feminine voice naming the track numbers. The station I did NOT record is named Union Station.
    The two spaces are architecturally distinct. The gates are structured differently. The OTC gate(s) allow sound bleed from all gates into one large space. A passenger for any train can hear the track announcement for many of the nearby tracks, in ways that a passenger at Union Station cannot.
    Normally passengers are hustling across the 40 foot platform to find their train, with the sound of each track being named by a digital announcer-voice reverbing in the space. I made the three field recordings on days when I was using the station but arrived either early or had time after ending my trip to record an acoustic experience.
    I noticed that you asked us to use a single field recording; I did use three recordings from three different days. They were each recorded in the exact same location - the boarding / unloading platform of Ogilvie Transportation Center. The consistency of the recordings points to the consistency of acoustical experience of the space, something I noticed over the years of using this boarding platform on my commutes.
    Title represents my sense of affinity with these kiosk-voices endlessly naming the track numbers and the now-ubiquitous numbers station recordings from Europe. Here, the kiosk-voice is giving a local listener directions, signaling directions endlessly whether the station is empty or bustling."
    5 min
  • Chicago Metra Number Station
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By Jessica Fenlon. "Metra is a regional rail service featuring double-decker train cars, with two terminals in downtown Chicago. Both terminals use the same audio recordings of a feminine voice naming the track numbers. The station I did NOT record is named Union Station.
    The two spaces are architecturally distinct. The gates are structured differently. The OTC gate(s) allow sound bleed from all gates into one large space. A passenger for any train can hear the track announcement for many of the nearby tracks, in ways that a passenger at Union Station cannot.
    Normally passengers are hustling across the 40 foot platform to find their train, with the sound of each track being named by a digital announcer-voice reverbing in the space. I made the three field recordings on days when I was using the station but arrived either early or had time after ending my trip to record an acoustic experience.
    I noticed that you asked us to use a single field recording; I did use three recordings from three different days. They were each recorded in the exact same location - the boarding / unloading platform of Ogilvie Transportation Center. The consistency of the recordings points to the consistency of acoustical experience of the space, something I noticed over the years of using this boarding platform on my commutes.
    Title represents my sense of affinity with these kiosk-voices endlessly naming the track numbers and the now-ubiquitous numbers station recordings from Europe. Here, the kiosk-voice is giving a local listener directions, signaling directions endlessly whether the station is empty or bustling."
    4 min
  • Chicago Metra - Chuck mix
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    "Here I'm creating the design that unfolds over time, since in this method I have used a coding language [ Chuck ] to randomize sampling and playback of the three source files. Since I opted to run random float cast operations, and not play around with softening the sound packets created by the 'cuts', the results are much more 'clicky'. This, oddly, suits the space in which the original sound was captured, a tiled train platform with lots of bounce in the sound that somehow doesn't end up becoming muddy. "
    7 min
  • Mexico minutes
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By William Costa (AKA Bilwa). "Mexico Minutes Mix is a sound collage created using a "palette" of one-minute filed recordings, all of which were recorded in Mexico in Oct-Nov 2015. Using the element of chance, I faded tracks in without a pre-fade listen.These recordings range from natural to unnatural sounds and often contain readymade music and singing."
    8 min
  • At the Piramide del Sol, Mexico City
    Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds
    By William Costa (AKA Bilwa). "Mexico Minutes Mix is a sound collage created using a "palette" of one-minute filed recordings, all of which were recorded in Mexico in Oct-Nov 2015. Using the element of chance, I faded tracks in without a pre-fade listen.These recordings range from natural to unnatural sounds and often contain readymade music and singing."
    3 min

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