Bounce back
Jul 19, 12:42 PM
"This field recording had a lot to work with. I enjoyed the backstory, learning about Zubin Aroz's reflections as audience to these high-paced basketball matches. To me, the bouncing of the ball in this recording became a strong symbol of the sort of life that a migrant lives, when having a new home in another country. The feeling of being torn in between two geographical places is something that is in constant flux, and is heavily dependant on a lot of things. Being comfortable in a new environment can quickly be replaced to longing for familiarity, without any particular explanation.
"The context to this recording provided by Zubin, and the clear excitement and joy that can be heard by the players involved in this game of basketball, made me think of the many beautiful moments that I've experienced myself when finding comfort and stability in new places. Therefore, the act of bouncing came to represent the pendulum between birth place, and a new home. I tried to capture the moments of excitement, the sun, and the joy of collective play in my piece that I based around the recording.
"I based my composition entirely on the audio file of the field recording, but processed it in various way to create tonality - using resonators and heavy EQing to create clusters of tones mashed together with the texture of the soundscape of the game. I then used granular synthesis and time-stretching in various ways to create textural density, giving this final result."
Dubai basketball game reimagined by Malte Leander.
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
"The context to this recording provided by Zubin, and the clear excitement and joy that can be heard by the players involved in this game of basketball, made me think of the many beautiful moments that I've experienced myself when finding comfort and stability in new places. Therefore, the act of bouncing came to represent the pendulum between birth place, and a new home. I tried to capture the moments of excitement, the sun, and the joy of collective play in my piece that I based around the recording.
"I based my composition entirely on the audio file of the field recording, but processed it in various way to create tonality - using resonators and heavy EQing to create clusters of tones mashed together with the texture of the soundscape of the game. I then used granular synthesis and time-stretching in various ways to create textural density, giving this final result."
Dubai basketball game reimagined by Malte Leander.
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