Roundabout poem

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"I was inspired by the text accompanying this recording of a roundabout in the Philippines. I felt the whole experience of migrating, travelling and coming back to a place that is not really home anymore was perfectly described in this text. I took my "scissors", picked the more meaningful words, and played with that material to recompose a sort of poem.
"I added to the field recording the circular sound of a wind chime with a floating delay ( paraphrasing the text in sound). After a moment I reversed all the sounds, as if returning home was like rewinding a cassette and introduced some errors into the poem."
Philippines roundabout recording reimagined by Christine Renaudat.
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
IMAGE: Benson Kua, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons