Nomadic trail

 "The recording I chose for work is, to be honest, quite self-sufficient. However, I decided to wrap it in sound like a wool blanket without adding many other elements. I thought for a long time about what sonic texture I associate with China, Kazakhstan, and Altai, and what at the same time resonates with my personal experience of migration, and eventually, I came to overtone singing. 

"As the equivalent of overtone singing, I used my recordings made during my migration in Uzbekistan using a no-input system and a cassette player." 

Xinjiang nomad recording reimagined by Vladimir Bocharov.

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