Forward backward backward forward

Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces

Notre Dame reimagined by Manuel Guerrero.

"I chose that recording because the ambience generated by the toll of the bells it’s incredible: a half old, and a half contemporary, with the people speaking and the cellphone’s ringtones.

The creative process behind started with a consideration of the religious practices nowadays. In some moment of the history, religions made a great role in the development of human being, but today - with a lot of misunderstandings- it’s quite hard to say how good they are: with a lot of influence on the justifications of wars, murders, etc. The religious beliefs, in my opinion, represents a backward in many senses.

The reimagined sound was made with a lot of attention on the posibilites of panning and reverb: we listen on it a transition from left to right and vice versa in the headphones, between a track that is played forward and another one that goes backward. Just like how i think about religions beliefs against the human progress."