Conversations
Jul 15, 01:22 PM
"The field recording resonated with me as the theme is about families who have moved around the world and come together to meet and talk about food, farms and gardens. I was born in the US and grew up near Chicago where my father’s family settled from Germany in 1911.
"I have cousins in Germany and I now live in Wales, with a Welsh husband. My older daughter, Ellen, was born in Scotland, but now lives in Wales and she just had a baby in November so I have included recordings of us at a Welsh market in Talysarn, Wales, UK and Ellen reading a story in Welsh to her daughter Nimue, in Caernarfon. Nimue is 6 months old and sings and gurgles in response.
"I love the weaving of the different conversations, laughing and relaxed. The footsteps of me in the garden denote the the small steps we take to travel the world and come together with food, conversation and love. I used the original recording without any effects and just shortened the length. All my sounds were recorded on a TASCAM DR-05 including the Kawai ES110 piano, and then mixed using Audacity.
Duren family conversation reimagined by Amy Sterly.
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
"I have cousins in Germany and I now live in Wales, with a Welsh husband. My older daughter, Ellen, was born in Scotland, but now lives in Wales and she just had a baby in November so I have included recordings of us at a Welsh market in Talysarn, Wales, UK and Ellen reading a story in Welsh to her daughter Nimue, in Caernarfon. Nimue is 6 months old and sings and gurgles in response.
"I love the weaving of the different conversations, laughing and relaxed. The footsteps of me in the garden denote the the small steps we take to travel the world and come together with food, conversation and love. I used the original recording without any effects and just shortened the length. All my sounds were recorded on a TASCAM DR-05 including the Kawai ES110 piano, and then mixed using Audacity.
Duren family conversation reimagined by Amy Sterly.
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