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Ollie Campbell - A night in the park

from Smithsonian Treasures by Cities and Memory

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Piece based on Hopper's Night in the Park from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1921).

"I chose this etching by Edward Hopper to reimagine because I really liked the texture in the piece and the dark, lonely atmosphere created by the lighting and scratches on the page. In my piece I tried to reflect the scratchy 'noisy' textures of the etching by layering lots different sounds including radio static, drones, distortion, glitches, screechy cello and zither bows. These sounds were built around some gravel footsteps which I cut to a beat.

The first half was composed with ambiences of wind and sirens to place the listener in the space pictured in the etching. The musical elements are sparse and echoey - intended to represent the solitary mans thoughts and daydreams whilst he reads his newspaper."

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from Smithsonian Treasures, released June 1, 2020

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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.
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