Cities & Memory - The watchmaker's dream

from Obsolete Sounds by Cities and Memory

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"The watchmaker falls asleep in his studio on a cold winter's night, work hard to come by in this digital age as he wonders how he will pay his incoming bills. As he falls asleep, like a classic Brothers Grimm story, he dreams that tiny elfin helpers appear from the corners of the shop and finish his work for him, working feverishly with magical hands until daybreak. The piece winds down from its crescendo back to a slow pace, and the watchmaker awakes once again, to realise it was all a dream.

"The modular synth starts slowly in parallel with the metronomic ticking of the watch, then as the watch is wound further, the pace picks up and multiple, interweaving layers of synth line begin to flow. After a higher-energy peak, the pace slows down as the watch naturally unwinds once again. Composed primarily using a Moog Subharmonicon alongside the original field recording and layers of additional synths in some sections."

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from Obsolete Sounds, released November 28, 2022

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Cities and Memory Oxford, UK

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.
Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world. ... more

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