Dérive
Oct 06, 2022, 07:43 AM
"The clip I was provided with was a recording of live music from the 1st Musical Decontamination March in Argentina, a protest carried out to demand controls of emission and pollutants from the Bahía Blanca Petrochemical plant. Whilst amplified music may be considered 'loud' and in some instance a nuisance which may be also through of as a pollutant by some in a city catering for well being, and sonic comfort, it is important to remember that live music is not only part of community but important in times of celebration and protest.
"My idea for this piece was the wanderings of an autonomous person on a sonic psychogeographic dérive around a city which caters for and considers the sonic requirements of all it's citizens. With this in mind, I created an imaginary soundwalk around a city centre sound world taking into consideration human and natural sound which would form a natural part of restorativeness for an urban population.
"Whilst music has been included, additional human sounds have been added as well as consideration of what electric vehicles also being present soundscape would sound like. I have also included electrical sounds which I feel would be part of a city regardless of design until we are able to remove electricity as a power source (which I don't believe we can).
"I also had the idea that with digital processing and future acoustic technology, the sounds that sustain us, but are currently a pollutant, such as HVAC and refrigeration units, could be masked to produce a more soothing ambience, and I felt that this ambient bed should be very much inline with Brian Eno's original concept for Music for Airports. A soundscape which does not interfere with communication and is present for the active listener, should they wish to listen to it.
"The piece is produced binaural as so is best listened to on headphones to get the whole immersive experience of the soundwalk.
"The ambient beds were produced from manipulating the original recording to form textural drones. Additional material was added from my own field recording catalogue."
Buenos Aires protest reimagined by Neil Spencer Bruce.
Part of the Well-Being Cities project, a unique collaboration between Cities and Memory and C40, a global network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. The project was originally presented at the C40 Cities conference in Buenos Aires in 2022. Explore Well-Being Cities in full at https://citiesandmemory.com/wellbeing-cities/
"My idea for this piece was the wanderings of an autonomous person on a sonic psychogeographic dérive around a city which caters for and considers the sonic requirements of all it's citizens. With this in mind, I created an imaginary soundwalk around a city centre sound world taking into consideration human and natural sound which would form a natural part of restorativeness for an urban population.
"Whilst music has been included, additional human sounds have been added as well as consideration of what electric vehicles also being present soundscape would sound like. I have also included electrical sounds which I feel would be part of a city regardless of design until we are able to remove electricity as a power source (which I don't believe we can).
"I also had the idea that with digital processing and future acoustic technology, the sounds that sustain us, but are currently a pollutant, such as HVAC and refrigeration units, could be masked to produce a more soothing ambience, and I felt that this ambient bed should be very much inline with Brian Eno's original concept for Music for Airports. A soundscape which does not interfere with communication and is present for the active listener, should they wish to listen to it.
"The piece is produced binaural as so is best listened to on headphones to get the whole immersive experience of the soundwalk.
"The ambient beds were produced from manipulating the original recording to form textural drones. Additional material was added from my own field recording catalogue."
Buenos Aires protest reimagined by Neil Spencer Bruce.
Part of the Well-Being Cities project, a unique collaboration between Cities and Memory and C40, a global network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. The project was originally presented at the C40 Cities conference in Buenos Aires in 2022. Explore Well-Being Cities in full at https://citiesandmemory.com/wellbeing-cities/