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Sherman and Field - The ballad of Coronasilence feat. Hugh Sykes (London, UK)

from Remixing the global lockdown by Cities and Memory

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London lockdown sound reimagined by Sherman and Field.

"We particularly responded to the focus on silence in the field recording. The absence of one sound creates space for the hearing of another. Shifting listening from a work building elsewhere to being at home in a quieter than normal suburb has had the same effect for us, on the other side of the world.

"Our lived experience of home isolation since March has been one where the external environment has been filled with birdsong and the routine passes of aircraft from Amberley air force base some days and nights. In between, the dampened neighbourhood activity has shifted the typical area quietness. The positive outcome of this period of home isolation has been a slower world around us.

"We combined the field recording with a selected sample lifted from an improvised work created during our own period of isolation. This was recorded late one evening using effects-drenched guitar, analogue synth devices and drum machine."

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from Remixing the global lockdown, released July 10, 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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