Le souq

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"At first what captured my attention was the richness of the all the voices from children, woman and man. So the focus is on the voices, everything is based on that. Aside from the drone and occasional percussions, most of the sounds are heavily treated vocals. Next, I liked the organic side of the market's ambiance, therefore some live percussions was added. I deliberately left out the song captured in fhe field recording provided to avoid any copyright issues.
"I basically extracted and isolated into separate tracks all voices, noises, wind, artifacts and ambience. Multiple different combinaison of effects was permanently applied on each tracks. Everything was imported into the DAW (Ableton), then I selected some sections of every category and applied more effects depending of the result needed. The drone and percussions we're added to complete the picture. Selected tracks were imported into the Zoom F3 and sent simultaneously in stereo to 2 different mono effects (Chase Bliss Mood on the left channel, Dr Scientist The atmosphere on the right channel) and recombined into a stereo signal sent in Chase Bliss Reverse Mode C and redivised into a left and right signal. More effects were added via auxiliary return busses and automation on most of the tracks, these parameter change includes: EQ, filters, Bit Reduction, Downsample, Bit Depth, Overdrive, gain, Pitch and Tape Saturation.
Equipment
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Daw & Tools : Ableton 10, Audacity, Paul Stretch, Zoom F3
Hardware Effects : Chase Bliss Mood, Chase Bliss Reverse Mode C, Dr Scientist The Atmosphere
Vsts : Klanghelm DC1A3, Puremagnetik Driftmaker, Linda Audio Stargazer, Chaos Audio Starlight, Waves Silk Vocal, Noise Engineering Ruina, Chowdsp Chow Tape Model, Waves H-Comp, Tokyo Dawn Records TDR Molotok, Granulator II, Valhalla Supermassive, Waves MaxxVolume
Synths : Full Bucket Music Mono/Fury, Ableton 10 native synths
Percussions : Triangle, toy bells, egg shaker, tambourine
Microphone : ElectroVoice N/D767a"
Bethlehem souq recording reimagined by Ghislain Caya.
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