Binario 2

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"This track is composed entirely from samples taken from the original recording. I have worked with the textures, resonances and naturally occurring rhythms in the recording. The sounds of the train moving along the tracks, the mechanical sounds of doors opening and closing, and the movements and voices of people on and off the train, as well as the white noise in the recording are the main components of the track. I filtered rhythmic sections to their transients and enhanced them with resonators. Percussive sounds were used for drum patterns and the train whistle forms the patch for the mysterious melody.
"The original recording has a U shape in terms of its energy. The train is arriving, it stops and then it moves again. My track follows this same pattern and situates the listener in the same perspective as the recordist. You can hear most of the original recording throughout the track. We arrive in the story whilst it is in full swing, on the road to somewhere, the anticipation of starting something, a new life perhaps. We arrive and are greeted with confusion, there is movement in all directions, yet we are staying still. We hear sounds of people on the platform, people get off, people get on. Tensions are high, but we calmly observe the scene unfold around us. The energy gradually builds up and the train departs the station, continuing once again on its journey. Who is still with us? Who has joined? What have we left behind? Where are we going anyway?
"I wanted to create something that gave the sense of being on a journey, capturing a sense of anticipation and excitement, combined with urgency and uncertainty. I also wanted the track to have a spatial quality and also a physical dimension in the sub frequencies, so that listeners could imagine themselves being taken along by the rolling relentless motion of the train."
Trieste train journey reimagined by Kim[bal].
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration