We won't give up our future

Budapest protest reimagined by Cities and Memory.

I was fascinated by the idea that for whatever reason, protests in Hungary are quieter affairs than in most other places in the world (especially when you consider Hungary's leadership gives its people plenty to complain about!). As such, I wanted to reflect this in the piece by creating a piece of ambient, almost relaxing electronica from the field recording (along the lines of Wolfgang Voight's marvellous GAS project). Everything you hear here is from the field recording with no additional sounds. The melodies are sections of recording fed through vocoders and other effects, while the beats are from the protest's sound system, hidden under a fog of filters to give them that dubby, 'lost' feel.

Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest