Cities And Memory

"After selecting a field recording at random, I immediately researched the location… Upon looking at photographs of the location and watching a video of the installation in action….  "I wondered; “what if every one of the 142000 pulsing LEDs in Leo Villareal’s light sculpture ‘Multiverse’ were microphones?” "I then wondered; “what might a field recording sound like if we recorded via these imaginary moving microphones?” "I set about creating the track:  I chose three 1 minute sections of the original field recording to provide my source audio … one from the beginning/middle/end.  "I looped these three sections of the field recording  Each one processed by a different effect that uses a granular synthesis algorithm, creating individual distinct chaotic patterns:  "Chopping and rearranging little pieces of the audio, simulating the snippets of sound the imaginary microphones might hear as they twinkle and flow through the subterranean space… "Additional fx channels were used to add some subtle extra depth