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Heartbeats and bells (Paris)

from Sounds from France by Cities and Memory

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It's often said that the sound of a church's bells are like an auxiliary heartbeat to their local community - their individual, particular sound is unique and as identifiable as the back of one's hand. Particularly in pre-industrial times, bells were the heartbeat of the entire town in the sense that they would dictate the regularity of the day - time to wake up, time to eat, time to pray and time to retire. This piece takes that concept of the bell as the heartbeat of a community by blending those two sounds together - the bell sounds to the people of the Parisian Latin quarter, and is gradually overtaken by the sound of a heartbeat, until nothing remains of the bell and it is subsumed entirely by the body.

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from Sounds from France, released June 19, 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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