In the station

"The field recording notes really struck me, especially that feeling of shock and confusion. I’m realizing that the sense of a place, the experience of it, those feelings don’t exist in themselves, but they’re a conversation/confrontation with the listener’s sense of self. 

"I played flute along with the recording, and that maybe acts as the "self," and then I used an echo to move in and out of “presence in the space” - by adjusting the level of the echo, I tried to follow an internal struggle between self and surrounding. " 

Almaty station reimagined by Nicolo Scolieri.

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

IMAGE: KHMA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons