Luna Park's abstract sound world

Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds

By Anthony Lyons. "Initially, the original field recording was cut into a number of smaller audio files. This focused the material toward some of the more defined sounds in the multilayered original including tram bells, roller-coaster rattles, voices, waves on the beach, etc. The central Dada approach then was one of collage and assemblage of the original through the use of these smaller reconfigured audio files.

This resulted in both a linear reordering of sound and a textural or topographical change from the different combinations of layering and processing. The cut-up technique used often involved frequently small, micro even, fragments of the original combined with a high level of randomness creating a glitch-like atmosphere at times. The reimagined sound world is deliberately abstract and saturated at the start of the piece, but slowly becomes sparser and the sounds more defined ending with waves washing onto St. Kilda beach like in the original recording."