Madurai, India, 1979

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

By Tom Miller.

" I made the original field recording late at night in the streets of Madurai, India on the 28th of February, 1979. Sounds captured include street singers, bicycles, cars, a nagaswaram (south Indian double-reed instrument) and thavil (barrel-shaped drum) duet outside the walls of the Meenakshi temple, voices of children and adults (including a passerby commenting on the tape recorder), microphone handling noise, wind, footsteps, and a cow eating a pineapple. All of the sounds heard are generated from the original field recording with no added source material.

Dada methods employed:
Chance – random elements encountered on a midnight walk through city streets Cut-up – the original field recording has been spliced, glitched, and re-sequenced Collage – the sounds of the field recording are layered into a multitrack mix Assemblage – resultant drone and combinatorial effects from applying reverb and resonance filters "