Time will come
Oct 09, 2022, 07:27 PM
"Living in the middle of Oxford I had the privilege to hear the city in such a unique way during the first lockdown and especially without the sound of traffic. I have lived in my house for 25 years and suddenly I could hear an entirely new soundscape from my garden.
"The one sound that will forever be memorable were the church/chapel bells I had never heard before. The recording from Venice, where the sound of car traffic doesn't exist, really reminded me and emphasised the need to massively reduce noise and environmental pollution from our cities.
"My composition starts with the field recording and then morphs into a reimagined version of it using the bells as the central focus. There is an urgency in the pace and mood of the piece with the sounds of human conversations and general movement making up the rhythmic parts and accompanied by acoustic, choir and synthesised sounds. The track was recorded and produced in Ableton Live."
Venice bells reimagined by Alex Hehir.
Part of the Well-Being Cities project, a unique collaboration between Cities and Memory and C40, a global network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. The project was originally presented at the C40 Cities conference in Buenos Aires in 2022. Explore Well-Being Cities in full at https://citiesandmemory.com/wellbeing-cities/
"The one sound that will forever be memorable were the church/chapel bells I had never heard before. The recording from Venice, where the sound of car traffic doesn't exist, really reminded me and emphasised the need to massively reduce noise and environmental pollution from our cities.
"My composition starts with the field recording and then morphs into a reimagined version of it using the bells as the central focus. There is an urgency in the pace and mood of the piece with the sounds of human conversations and general movement making up the rhythmic parts and accompanied by acoustic, choir and synthesised sounds. The track was recorded and produced in Ableton Live."
Venice bells reimagined by Alex Hehir.
Part of the Well-Being Cities project, a unique collaboration between Cities and Memory and C40, a global network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. The project was originally presented at the C40 Cities conference in Buenos Aires in 2022. Explore Well-Being Cities in full at https://citiesandmemory.com/wellbeing-cities/