To market to market

"I am again and again drawn to markets. I regularly seek them out in both new, and familiar places. They are at the same time, unique to a particular place, time, climate and season, but there's always something familiar about them too, carried across one to another. The way people behave, the look of the stalls, the movement, the crowds, the products, the atmosphere. The freeforming flow of bodies, sounds, language, and work. They are each, one-off temporary spaces and provide a little snapshop of a place and time, much like a photograph, but for all the senses. 

"Living in a new place, I was drawn to the markets of Berlin, on the Maybach Ufer, as well as elsewhere and they reminded me of parallel markets of former homes and visited places including Melton Mowbray, Leicester, Newcastle, Manchester, Marakkesh, Mexico City... With this piece I tried not to alter the field recording much, I just added a bit of EQ and a little bit of effects on three parts. I wanted to have the market set the backdrop to the vibe of the piece, to capture the liveliness, friendly disorder, and energy of the place. I then built sounds around the recording, and added some simple melodic phrases and percussive elements." 

Rotterdam market reimagined by Suzi Lamb.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration