Utopia, by Cities and Memory

Utopia

by Cities and Memory

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1.	As Idle As Drones 09:32	buy track
2.	Sunset 07:22	buy track
3.	Sicily is Utopia 09:43	buy track
4.	The Full Catastrophe of Life 04:28	buy track
5.	Utopian Shores 10:56	buy track
6.	The Castle and the Monastery 06:10	buy track
7.	Ancient River Anydrus 04:47	buy track
8.	Amaurot Soundscape 03:00	buy track
9.	On the seas of Utopia 05:03	buy track
10.	Thin Cities 19:56	buy track
11.	Upon a Lonely Beach in No-Place 11:58	buy track
12.	Hythlodaeus 2015 20:00	buy track

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Cities and Memory: Utopia takes one of English literature’s great works of imagination, Thomas More’s Utopia and creates something new from the collective imagination of artists around the world – an entirely new Utopia of sound.

Using a woodcut map from the second printed edition of Utopia from 1518, we divided it into 30 grid squares. Sound artists each took a small section of the imagined country of Utopia, and created a new soundscape imagining how that place (and the society living in it) might sound.

This is just a small selection of the Utopia sounds from the project - you can explore them all at the interactive map at www.citiesandmemory.com/utopia

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released October 28, 2015

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Cities and Memory Oxford, UK

Cities and Memory is a global field recording & sound art work that presents both the present reality of a place, but also its imagined, alternative counterpart – remixing the world, one sound at at time.

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