Protest and Politics, by Cities and Memory

Protest and Politics

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	1.	Sue Bowerman - Those Forgotten (Newcastle, UK) 07:31
	2.	Brexit Means Brexit (London, UK) 03:54
	3.	Mark Taylor - Alone in the Crowd (Paris, France) 05:11
	4.	Alex Hehir - F**k Your Austerity (Athens, Greece) 05:00
	5.	Stephanie Merchak - System Collapse (Reykjavik, Iceland) 05:10
	6.	Marco Maril - An omnipresent drone (Taipei City, Taiwan) 04:27
	7.	Karhide - First Order (Pereira, Colombia) 03:46
	8.	Jeff Dungfelder - The Silence Spoke (Istanbul, Turkey) 06:08
	9.	Unpaid Intern - Steintorplatz (Hamburg, Germany) 06:25
	10.	Alan Bleay - Barcelona Protest Beats (Barcelona, Spain) 04:08
	11.	Sewon Chung Barrera - The White Bay (Bahia Blanca, Argentina) 03:19
	12.	Richard Watts - Cântarea (Făgăraș, Romania) 04:32
	13.	Michael Trommer - A Peace for the Dog (Portland, USA) 10:47

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This is an album containing selected highlights of reimagined sounds of protest and political activism from the Protest and Politics project by Cities and Memory.

Each track is constructed from a field recording of a protest in the city named in its title.

To hear the original field recordings, and dozens more pieces from the project in full, please visit www.citiesandmemory.com/protest

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released August 10, 2017

Based on field recordings by Cities and Memory, Ben Gale, Benjamin Glas-Hochstettler, Sonoteca Bahía Blanca, Rebecca Toop and Maria Năstase, Jacek Smolicki, Ryan Cross, Tsan-Cheng Wu, Stuart Bowditch and Georgia Pazarloglou.

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Cities and Memory Oxford, UK

Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world. ... more

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