Urban sounds as sound sources in Harmonic gate, creates harmonies out of the sounds of an urban environment. It’s interesting because of the complexity of a city, each day is entirely unique, in making sound and music from it you have endless new combinations. The ultimate generative track.
One piece that has me slightly mesmerised is “Requiem for Fossil Fuels, Part Five: Sanctus” the biblical-esque singing over this deep and ominous drone creates such an attention grabbing effect. I am in love with this style of singing, it has so many different connotations which may vary heavily from person to person. In listening to the rest of the piece, this juxtaposition is this surreal between the grace of a religious requiem against the rough and brutal sounds of engines and cars, it represents, to me, the clinging on to one tradition of religion and worship whilst examining the creation of a new worship of the fossil fuel, and the capitalistic connotations that has, wars have been fought over both and so the pairing perhaps is not so unusual.
The theme of the urban and of industry is fascinating to me. I am perfectly happy sitting with my zoom out in the city with the sensitivity set high and just picking out different elements, the complexity of a naturally forming soundscape represents to me the sheer size and depth to a city, I will never know everything there is to know about London, there will be secrets and things I simply haven’t come across that have evaded me in all 19 years of my life here.