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Audio Obscura - For those of you alone in a world of sound (Tokyo, Japan)

from Future Cities by Cities and Memory

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The Sound of the Shinkansen pulling into a station and railway station announcements gave me a sense of movement, a feeling of either starting or ending a journey.

Therefore I wanted my piece to feel like it had motion, so I added rhythmic beats and synths which I felt had a sense of motion. A sense of journey can also suggest departure and being alone so I tried to have an underlying meloncholly to the piece in the sound design. The piece to also tries to capture the technological nature of Japanese cities and the shinkansen.

I used the field recording more or less as it is, adding only a little effects on it in places and it is nearly constant throughout the track. I visited Japan in 2005 (before I ever made sound recordings or music) so part of this track also feels like me reminiscing about my own trips on the shinkansen and remembering my own time in various Japanese cities.

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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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