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Forever at Tchaikovsky's House (Perm, Russia)

from Sounds of the Year 2019 by Cities and Memory

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Perm opera house reimagined by Cities and Memory.

Sometimes when you listen to an opera singer, you feel like their voice is capable of extraordinary things, like going on forever. This piece captures that spirit, taking snippets of an opera singer's rehearsal in Perm and stretching them out, then blending them into multiple layers of synth, to create the impression that a majestic wave of neverending drones is issuing forth from the singer.

The recording was a challenge to work with - being recorded outside next to busy roads and capturing a snatch of secret sounds stolen through a window, there's a lot of background noise and traffic to fight through to get to the desired source.

We approached this piece having spent some time listening to the astonishing distorted cassette tape explorations of Ian William Craig, whose vocals have something of the undramatic opera about them.

As such, we spent quite a lot of time cleaning up and stripping back the recording to isolate the source, followed by then dirtying it up again with various tape and vinyl effects - once we'd got the effect we were looking for on the vocals, it was a case of blending them closely into layers of heavily-effected synth arpeggios to create the dreamlike effect.

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

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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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