![]() After that I changed the pitch of the sample to make it higher, so that the melody could be more clear. Then I listen to the extracted tracks and choose only one sample out of it, which was a plucked instrument that was difficult to hear at the beginning of the original sound because the other instruments were louder. software normally used by DJs to extract STEMS (the different instruments in which the song is composed), or vocals out of music tracks to make remixes. "Technically, in this piece I began by extracting the different musical elements of the music in a frequency basis with Rip X, an A.I. "Im not sure if it counts as a source of inspiration or narrative, or at least maybe not one that comes voluntarily but unconsciously, nevertheless I made this track while I was ill with a stomach infection. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Composed primarily using a Moog Subharmonicon alongside the original field recording and layers of additional synths in some sections." After a higher-energy peak, the pace slows down as the watch naturally unwinds once again. "The modular synth starts slowly in parallel with the metronomic ticking of the watch, then as the watch is wound further, the pace picks up and multiple, interweaving layers of synth line begin to flow. The piece winds down from its crescendo back to a slow pace, and the watchmaker awakes once again, to realise it was all a dream. As he falls asleep, like a classic Brothers Grimm story, he dreams that tiny elfin helpers appear from the corners of the shop and finish his work for him, working feverishly with magical hands until daybreak. "The watchmaker falls asleep in his studio on a cold winter's night, work hard to come by in this digital age as he wonders how he will pay his incoming bills. This idea inspired me to create architecture that materialises that calm sense by amplifying low frequency sounds and buffering outside, traffic noise." "The resultant audio sounds like a melody, where all the sounds merge together in harmony and transport you to a calmer place. Finally I combined the latter sounds into a 40 second audio as a palette that can always potentially create a sonic environment similar to the times gone by. This approach left me with sounds of horse trotting, leather shoe steps on gravel pathways, sounds from an old church, pigeons cooing, children playing. I recorded at 14 different spots in the neighbourhood and edited them to remove sounds that were not there in the past i.e motor sounds, traffic noise. ![]() "As an undergraduate architecture student, I visited Old Anarkali in 2019 in search of remnants of the past and found the sonic elements to be the most prominent in the creation of the 'sense of the past'. ![]() These buildings are mostly residential and while their material condition is in decay, the intangible environment has a strong 'sense of the past'. Owing to its rich history, the market still holds much of the historic architecture at its backside while the front has been modernised, catering to the commercial needs. "Old Anarkali has been a bustling market in the city of Lahore for at least 200 years. The sounds cover parts of the world as diverse as the hubbub of San Francisco’s main station, traditional fishing women’s songs at Lake Turkana, the sound of computer data centres in Birmingham, spiritual temple chanting in New Taipei City or the hum of the vaporetto engines in Venice. There are more than 5,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 100 countries and territories. Each podcast description tells you more about what you're hearing, and where it came from. What you'll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those sounds. The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world. Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world.
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