The cycle of days
Mar 15, 2022, 11:56 AM
Lockdown thunderstorm in Oxford reimagined by Cities and Memory.
"In lockdown, time seemed to be at a standstill, with every day taking forever to pass, but the months vanishing in an instant. This piece is built on a recording of a thunderstorm taking place when we were all confined to our homes, a slight point of difference in a blank calendar of days that looked and felt the same. The degrading loops represent the cycle of the days passing during lockdown, lulling the listener into a sense of time passing differently. As the loops represent the passing of similar days, the introduction of new elements and more volume represents our growing frustration at the months passing by in lockdown, unable to do anything to help."
"In lockdown, time seemed to be at a standstill, with every day taking forever to pass, but the months vanishing in an instant. This piece is built on a recording of a thunderstorm taking place when we were all confined to our homes, a slight point of difference in a blank calendar of days that looked and felt the same. The degrading loops represent the cycle of the days passing during lockdown, lulling the listener into a sense of time passing differently. As the loops represent the passing of similar days, the introduction of new elements and more volume represents our growing frustration at the months passing by in lockdown, unable to do anything to help."