Noisy morning song
Mar 24, 07:07 PM
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"The first thing that stood out to me about this field recording is that there is no real melodic information. It’s all street noise, most of it not of clearly recognisable origin.
"Even though Dubrovnik is 4,700 miles away from where I live, in another country on another continent across an ocean, the soundscape is very familiar to me. Garbage trucks and ventilation units all speak the same language.
"In her notes on the recording, Ristić describes the noisy Dubrovnik morning with richly evocative phrases like: “textural and multiphonic”; “grinding machinery”; “the town’s growling bowels”; and “a constant percussive development.”
"She writes: “I could not help but be fascinated by how a landscape of such beaming beauty can exist in this hideous soundscape.”
"I kicked around a few ideas but eventually decided to have the work be entirely rhythmic. I wanted to capture that unfocused, only-half-listening state when you become aware of rhythms emerging from the background and soon you begin adding your own.
"Early on I was listening to the recording on headphones while walking home from the train and imagining different rhythmic elements over it. I was walking at a good pace and that set the tempo. It’s a long walk and I got so used to that beat that thereafter I couldn’t imagine it differently.
"I wanted to use the field recording as the sole sound source but at some point found a royalty-free recording of pealing church bells in Old Town Dubrovnik that was too wonderful to not use*. Aside from that, everything is derived from the field recording.
*[Royalty Free Sound Library: “Croatia Church Bells” recorded by Free to Use Sounds and purchased on Bandcamp]
"I created and assembled this piece using Koala Sampler, AUM and AudioShare, splitting tasks between my iPhone and my iPad. Ultimately I didn’t use any audio effects or digital manipulation.
"I find inspiration everywhere, but this composition was particularly inspired by Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, Tom Waits’ junkyard jug band sound, and Manja Ristić’s previous work with field recordings. When I saw she had contributed a recording for the project, I chose it immediately."
Dubrovnik streets reimagined by daddy fall down.
IMAGE: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights.
Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage
"Even though Dubrovnik is 4,700 miles away from where I live, in another country on another continent across an ocean, the soundscape is very familiar to me. Garbage trucks and ventilation units all speak the same language.
"In her notes on the recording, Ristić describes the noisy Dubrovnik morning with richly evocative phrases like: “textural and multiphonic”; “grinding machinery”; “the town’s growling bowels”; and “a constant percussive development.”
"She writes: “I could not help but be fascinated by how a landscape of such beaming beauty can exist in this hideous soundscape.”
"I kicked around a few ideas but eventually decided to have the work be entirely rhythmic. I wanted to capture that unfocused, only-half-listening state when you become aware of rhythms emerging from the background and soon you begin adding your own.
"Early on I was listening to the recording on headphones while walking home from the train and imagining different rhythmic elements over it. I was walking at a good pace and that set the tempo. It’s a long walk and I got so used to that beat that thereafter I couldn’t imagine it differently.
"I wanted to use the field recording as the sole sound source but at some point found a royalty-free recording of pealing church bells in Old Town Dubrovnik that was too wonderful to not use*. Aside from that, everything is derived from the field recording.
*[Royalty Free Sound Library: “Croatia Church Bells” recorded by Free to Use Sounds and purchased on Bandcamp]
"I created and assembled this piece using Koala Sampler, AUM and AudioShare, splitting tasks between my iPhone and my iPad. Ultimately I didn’t use any audio effects or digital manipulation.
"I find inspiration everywhere, but this composition was particularly inspired by Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, Tom Waits’ junkyard jug band sound, and Manja Ristić’s previous work with field recordings. When I saw she had contributed a recording for the project, I chose it immediately."
Dubrovnik streets reimagined by daddy fall down.
IMAGE: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
———————
This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights.
Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage