Journey's ends

"I was inspired by the scale of the call to prayer playing out in Bosnia. Using the notes I added some improvised piano to the supplied field recording getting further and further away from the maqam. The impression of war was added as heavily manipulated layered field recordings which included slowed down cobbles and use of the GRM Evol plug in on nature sounds. 

"A plaintive alto sax (me) and guitar (Richard Mulhearn) improvisation aimed to suggest a journey and a splitting of the destination of the migrants. The final part is an out of sync layered recapitulation of the initial theme alluding to many final landing places." 

Velika Kladusa recording reimagined by Alison Beattie.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration