"I was struck by the many underlying tensions of this recording. The racialized profiling described by Masha Hassan—the dual nature of observation, the police surveillance of bodies and Masha's surveillance of them juxtaposed against the vibrancy and music of the open marketplace. 

"I wished to highlight those elements through a chopped and edited approach, a kind of digital tape manipulation, first through Eurorack synthesizer, and then further in DAW based editing; looping, sampling, resampling, stretching, and compressing audio. 

"While the moments of tension that are so compelling to me in Masha’s original recording may or may not be present in this reimagined piece, I aim to achieve that anxiety on a poetic level in my composition — exactimo."  

Friday market in Ventimiglia, Italy reimagined by John Wilhelm.