Murmurations
Feb 18, 2020, 09:06 AM
Birds on overheard wires in Kyoto, reimagined by Richard Gadd.
"I liked hearing the city noises beneath the birds and remembered that the collective noun 'murmuration' (of starlings).
"So I attempted to create, using only the original sound file and one other, the energetic flow of a city with its inhabitants and traffic interacting with each other.
"Cities are contradictory places in which we can hide or be seen or alone in a crowd, so as a counterpoint to the 'city' noise I have a man, a beggar or a monk or on his way to work, singing to himself."
Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
"I liked hearing the city noises beneath the birds and remembered that the collective noun 'murmuration' (of starlings).
"So I attempted to create, using only the original sound file and one other, the energetic flow of a city with its inhabitants and traffic interacting with each other.
"Cities are contradictory places in which we can hide or be seen or alone in a crowd, so as a counterpoint to the 'city' noise I have a man, a beggar or a monk or on his way to work, singing to himself."
Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities