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  • The bookshop under the railway arches

    The bookshop under the railway arches
    2025/11/24
    Inside the Bücherbogen bookshop in Savignyplatz, a fantastic bookshop of art, design and architecture books built under a set of railway arches. A unique soundscape of the quiet of a bookshop, with the flicking of pages, with the deep rumble overhead of periodic passing trains.

    Recorded in Berlin, September 2025 by Cities and Memory.
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    6 分
  • Pontis (2025)

    Pontis (2025)
    2025/11/24
    "In Latin, 'Pontis' not only refers to a physical bridge, but also a metaphorical crossing - a psychological parallel between lived reality and its parallel, hyper-real counterpart. My work explores the threshold of human imagination, and the subtle ways our perceived reality changes when consuming art. When reading or listening to material, our psychic perception of reality changes: the environment doesn't disappear, but transforms.

    "The piece ends in a rhythmic layered flurry of page-flicks coupled with solo pre-recorded harp material (at Trinity Laban, London), turning the field recording depicting a human action of flicking through a book, into something mechanical, experimental and post-human.

    "The Bucherbogen bookstore recording is the perfect vehicle to deliver this auditory palimpsest. The mumbled low rumbling of trains acts as a bridge - a 'pontis' - between the outer reality, and the parallel reality that is being formed inside the bookstore. Berlin is the perfect place for such a sonic crossover: everyday life with electro-acoustic touches.

    "I increased the presence of these distant rumbles through fragmentation and layering, then reinforced them with low-pitched pre-recorded electronic drones. This serves to merge the documentary-like quality of the field recording with a new sonic layer. The moments of chopped repeated singular sounds in the field recording (steps, book dropping), are complemented by pres-de-la-table harp singular sounds and added reverberation. This serves to de-contextualise the listener and introduce a new sonic reality.

    "Chopped sections of recording involving voice are also repeated intentionally: This is then fused with speech from the recording studio at Trinity Laban, when recording the harp material. Speech, especially in the contrast of male (Bucherbogen recording) vs female (trinity harp recording) also adds another layer of duality here.

    "The listener is trapped inside these two parallel realities: the Inner reality inside the bookstore (represented by the harp material and pre-recorded electronics), versus the outer, factual reality (represented by the field recording itself, with low rumbling of trains, dialogue, walking). The harp was the chosen acoustic presence because of longstanding musical associations with fantasy, mystery, and wonder, exactly the atmosphere I intended to evoke."

    Buecherbogen bookstore, Berlin reimagined by David Balica.
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    6 分
  • Bellemar

    Bellemar
    2025/11/24
    "When I listened to this beautiful recording of the Pharo bells of Marseille, I immediately felt transported to the south of France, which I recently visited and adore. The memories of those places surfaced together with the splendid sound of the different bells ringing over the sea, forming a simple and delicate melody.

    "This piece grows from that melody and from the sea itself, symbolising how certain moments in our past come flooding back through the tides of memory."

    Bells in Le Pharo, Marseille reimagined by Demiurgo.
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    5 分
  • A celebration at Wat Ku Tao

    A celebration at Wat Ku Tao
    2025/11/24
    This recording displays the sounds of a local celebration stumbled upon in the city of Chiang Mai. People of all ages gathered together to play music and dance, at a buddhist temple called Wat Ku Tao.

    Recorded in Chiang Mai, Thailand by Jake Edwards.
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    6 分
  • Daylight, Waorani Indigenous territory

    Daylight, Waorani Indigenous territory
    2025/11/24
    By day, high atop one of the tallest trees in the Waorani tribal territory of the Ecuadorian Amazon, the forest opens into a vast cathedral of sound. From this canopy — a sacred perch where countless birds pass by — the air vibrates with a living symphony. Wings beat the open sky, calls echo and overlap, and melodies shimmer in constant motion. Each branch becomes a resonant chamber, amplifying the chorus as if the whole canopy were singing.

    From this height, the perspective shifts — the forest is no longer an enclosing labyrinth but an endless horizon of green, alive with voices and breath. It is the rainforest breathing in daylight, radiant and unbroken, a reminder that in these heights, life is not only seen but ceaselessly sung.

    Recorded in the Waorani Indigenous territory, Yasuní biosphere reserve, Ecuador by Rafael Diogo.
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    20 分
  • Amazonscape

    Amazonscape
    2025/11/24
    "Right from the first listen, I was struck by the sheer variety and strangeness of the natural sounds of the Ecuadorian forest. Some of them already seemed like electronic sounds in their own right. "

    I therefore approached my processing by keeping the original recording unaltered and superimposing layers of electronic material that respectfully sought to integrate and blend in as much as possible with the original soundscape.

    "In short, they were minimal, liminal, and camouflaged contributions, disguised as natural sounds."

    Yasuni biosphere reserve, Ecuador reimagined by David Rossato.
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    20 分
  • Chant d’automne

    Chant d’automne
    2025/11/24
    "To create this sound piece, I sampled the rhythms from the field recording and turned them into a loop. I detuned it slightly. I isolated a fragment of the voice from the recording and altered it as well. With these two elements, I added synthesizers with heavy reverb and distortion. The whole piece sits on the edge of the industrial genre; the traditional drums become almost like hammers or hydraulic presses.

    "Baudelaire writes in Autumn Song: Rocked by this monotonous pounding, I seem to hear
    Nails driven hurriedly into a coffin somewhere.
    For whom?—Only yesterday it was summer; now it is autumn!
    This mysterious sound echoes like a departure."

    Wat Ku Tao celebration, Chiang Mai reimagined by Laville.
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    8 分
  • Bells of Le Pharo

    Bells of Le Pharo
    2025/11/24
    Recording starting just before 10:00. At 10, the bells of different churches start ringing.

    Binaural recording with OKM II and Zoom H2n.

    Recorded in Marseille, France by Patrick Petrossians.
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    1 分