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Bill Stevens - Echoes (New York, USA)

from Future Cities by Cities and Memory

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I decontextualized and doubled the length of the original field recording to take on the characteristic of water while adding musical content in the additive/subtractive minimalist style of Terry Riley while incorporating the phase technique of Steve Reich to represent the movement of trains.

The piece begins with a poem, Echoes by Australian poet/musician Neil Morris which speaks to me of the history of New York City, the echoes of footsteps of my ancestors as immigrants, pioneers, explorers, artists who are present if we are only able to take a moment to just listen; those that we must never forget as we walk the same streets, ride the same trains, respect the water that surrounds us.

This history is always present in the echoes of their footsteps; like our footsteps today and those of the generations to come.

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from Future Cities, released October 12, 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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