Shimoliy

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"I was deeply moved by the recording and text of this artist as soon as I heard and read them. What an incredible sense of space and movement in the recording. It let so many different feelings coexist, a sense of frustration, of feeling stuck but also of hope for what this particular journey will bring. It gives the listener a deep sense of nostalgia in that suspended waiting time, but is also witnessing many different interactions, more lighthearted vignettes and scenes.
"I improvised along the recording on a Moog Grandmother, Subharmonicon and DFAM, carried by this amazing train drone, and slightly edited it to play with the echoes and responses I could hear there. The voice of the announcement felt like a structuring and hypnotic moment that could be used as a pivot for the different parts of the composition.
Tashkent station reimagined by Fabienne Debarre.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
IMAGE: Bobyrr, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons