Gates can't wait

Jul 19, 03:41 PM

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"This piece initially appealed to me because of its location tag. I have always been inspired by airports! I used recordings of my Eurorack synthesizer with samples of the source material, played and recorded live through Rogue Amoeba software on my laptop.

"I begin and end with noisy elements to invoke the tension that can be felt waiting to have one's ticket scanned at the terminal gates... the middle part is my clunky ode to Brian Eno's Music for Airports."

El Paso airport recording reimagined by Land and Sound.

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: Gary Hoover, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons