cities & memory – Elizabeth Joan Kelly

Cities & Memory just released their newest project, Music For Sleep, “a worldwide collaboration between artists and field recordists to create a unique collection of compositions specially designed for rest, sleep and tranquility.” I used Anton Pickard’s Peeper frogs in the spring to create an ambient soundscape for slar phase titled “The Crucifer’s Cradle Song.” Search for “elizabeth” and our field recording/song set will be the only thing that comes up (or listen to it on audioboom). There are nearly 300 compositions and field recordings in the collection spanning 41 countries that can be navigated by country, category, or artist. Hope it’s useful in getting you to sleep a little easier.

Just released: Future Cities, a new project from Cities & Memory. From the website, “Future Cities is the largest ever survey of the sounds of cities around the world, examining how the soundscapes of our cities across 81 countries are changing and what that means for us all.” Participants first submitted field recordings from around the world (the “city version” on the website), and then participants had the opportunity to reimagine these recordings (the “memory version”).

I remixed K.A. Laity’s “Pile Driver on O’Connell Avenue,” Limerick, Ireland, in “The Irish Pile Driver In Isolation.” For this work, I attempted to situate myself in the brain of an Irish pile driver operator as they momentarily transcend into a few moments of tranquility. I only used the original field recording in this piece–no extra sounds. The dangers of noise pollution are ongoing and severe, particularly for construction workers. With this work I hope to model how urban “noise” can be made more palatable.

Explore more by navigating the map on the Cities & Memory website.

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New Release: Cities & Memory Music For Sleep

New release on Future Cities