Ushguli
Mar 23, 07:19 PM
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"I love a creaky door sound anytime, but this one was particularly special. The slow movement of this ancient door in Ushguli village as it groaned and rumbled on its rusty hinges was evocative of the remote mountain landscape it came from. You can almost smell the freshness of the air and feel the solidity of the village’s decadent medieval stone Svan towers. I had never heard of this place until this recording prompted me to explore it via Googlemaps, and it has certainly captivated me to go and visit one day.
"My track, which takes its name from the collection of five remote hamlets that form the UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Upper Svaneti region of Northern Georgia, is a journey of possibilities with echoes of a time gone by. I created the pulsing distorted rhythms using granular synthesis of time stretched samples of the door recording. I imagined the glitchy grains of sound bouncing between the walls, up through the rafters and out into the valley. There are moments of energy and moments of calm, as if we are eagerly walking the stony paths of the village, peering through the wooden doorframes of abandoned buildings, and stopping to smell the mountains."
Door in Upper Svaneti reimagined by Kim[bal].
IMAGE: Florian Pinel, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, 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
"My track, which takes its name from the collection of five remote hamlets that form the UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Upper Svaneti region of Northern Georgia, is a journey of possibilities with echoes of a time gone by. I created the pulsing distorted rhythms using granular synthesis of time stretched samples of the door recording. I imagined the glitchy grains of sound bouncing between the walls, up through the rafters and out into the valley. There are moments of energy and moments of calm, as if we are eagerly walking the stony paths of the village, peering through the wooden doorframes of abandoned buildings, and stopping to smell the mountains."
Door in Upper Svaneti reimagined by Kim[bal].
IMAGE: Florian Pinel, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, 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