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Duet for Jupiter​-​8 and muezzin (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

from Sounds of the Year 2019 by Cities and Memory

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Call to prayer in Riyadh reimagined by Cities and Memory.

For this piece, we've taken the stop-start nature of the call to prayer as a starting point, and wanted to highlight something of the disjointed staccato feel, but also the sense of calm generated by the simple act of repetition.

We've limited ourselves to one instrument, the Jupiter-8 synth, creating a series of repetitive notes that enter into a dialogue with the muezzin's call, depicting what this particular sonic experience felt like to us as we were recording it.

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from Sounds of the Year 2019, released December 14, 2019

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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.
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