Alex Hehir - Time will come (Venice, Italy)

from Well​-​Being Cities by Cities and Memory

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New Year's Eve bells in Venice reimagined by Alex Hehir.

"Living in the middle of Oxford I had the privilege to hear the city in such a unique way during the first lockdown and especially without the sound of traffic.I have lived in my house for 25 years and suddenly I could hear an entirely new soundscape from my garden.The one sound that will forever be memorable were the church/chapel bells I had never heard before. The recording from Venice ,where the sound of car traffic doesn't exist ,really reminded me and emphasised the need to massively reduce noise and environmental pollution from our cities.

My composition starts with the field recording and then morphs into a reimagined version of it using the bells as the central focus.There is an urgency in the pace and mood of the piece with the sounds of human conversations and general movement making up the rhythmic parts and accompanied by acoustic, choir and synthesised sounds.The track was recorded and produced in Ableton Live."

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from Well​-​Being Cities, released October 19, 2022

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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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