SOUND INTERPRETATION: New York

SOUND INTERPRETATION: New York Catalogue number: HAZE315 Artist: VA Date: 21.03.2015 Link: http://h-a-z-e.org/archives/4154

We start a new Sound Interpretation series.

This time compilations will be dedicated to cities. The cities you visited, liked, disliked, dreamed about or even never seen yet.

We believe that each city has its own unique air. But anyone who works with the sound knows that every city has a inimitable soundscape and rhythm. So let’s make a musical journey through the cities. Cities you’ve been or would like to visit.

Tracklist: 1. Alejandro Remeseiro – A Map Of Manhattan 2. gonesthedj – NYCDeambulation 3. Former Descent – The Park In The Sky 4. Raw n^d – The Rotko's Sunrise 5. Generation Skweee – Modern Current 6. Ian Quiet & Nicole Liotti with Gar Gar – Big Apple Slices 7. KHΛOMΛN – New Liberté 8. Victor Jouk – Ghostbusters 9. Fantastic Swimmers – Big Apple Karapet 10. sound_00 – New York Rain 11. Spit It Out – Last Meal 12. Tim Kays – The Underground 13. Daniel J Wojcik – NYC1978 14. Knyaz Mishkin – NY And NY 15. Hari Hardman – Johnny Johnny 16. horsethief – NY 17. Aortha – Suriname 18. Jacqueline Herranz Brooks & Leithal Music – New York Underground 19. Wellen Fischer – New York (Day and Night) 20. My Own Cubic Stone – Invisible Homeless Army 21. Buben – Street Nunber 68 22. Thlaaflaa – Desolate District 23. Roomdark – Thomas Willett 24. Fire to the Stars – Regular ghost (Orchard & Delancey) 25. K.vs.B. – Music Maker Jam Session 2nd 26. Saneliv – Nuyorican You 27. Wёska Project – Dreams About AM 28. Sonervol – Mommys Little NYC Tim 29. Siarhej Balahonau – Kryvavyja Rany NjuJorka

I have used sound samples & pictures to create my vision of each city. Having been to NYC many & almost moving there, I hold a personal love/hate relationship with this city. It's a wonderful contrast of old & new. Culture & crime. Good & Evil. For this track, I wanted to express something static & dreamlike. NYC is one of those places where I can get lost in my thoughts. Lost in time.

horsethief

DANIEL J. WOJCIK This piece was created using this photograph I took in 1978 while going to a photography school down on Canal Street in New York City.

The sculpture is of Jean Dubuffet’s “Group of Four Trees” and was installed (I believe) in the Chase Plaza.

Using MIDImage to produce the notes using the pixels of the image, it was then loaded into Cakewalk Sonar X3 where I added the accelerando and ritardando and lengthened some of the notes at the end so the tracks would be even.

The rhythm was intended to give the impression of a subway train rattling through the tunnels from one station to the next, but I don’t think it was particularly successful.

However, I ended up liking it as-is, so didn’t jump back in and try to change it.

MY OWN CUBIC STONE My New York is a Movie by Beth B. Wealth rubs and generates exclusion.

Abundance rubs and generates misery.

Two worlds that look at each other without ever seeing each other.

At all costs, avoid contagion.

THLAAFLAA

You're sitting in a desolate church on Hart Island in front of a rosette window with glass which was shattered a long time ago.

Oblique beams of the setting sun are falling through it. There're piles of litter on the floor. You take out the last on the whole globe bottle of your favourite black beer, which you stocked up five or six years ago. No people around. No sounds. No city. You take a sip of the beer. Enjoy.

FIRE TO THE STARS

This track was written during a 2014 visit to New York. I was partaking in some self-guided “Sonic Youth” tourism, finding New York locations and streets referenced in Sonic Youth songs, when almost by accident I stumbled upon the corner of Orchard and Delancey streets – as made famous (at least amongst us noise fans) by the fabulous Stereo Sanctity off the Sister album. I was struck by a sense of familiarity – like I had a connection to the place stemming back all those years to when I first heard Sister and at first strange sense of intimacy amongst the megatropolis of New York. It was these feeling I attempted to capture in this piece.

New York is truly the city that never sleeps. From my old home on East 75th Street in Manhattan, I watched it unfold every day. The city operates in shifts.

There are always people on the streets, but different people occupy the sidewalks during different shifts as the hours pass from day, into night, into late night, then into daybreak.

Another thing remains constant‌the underground. As the people move from one area or one borough to another, it is the subway system that takes them there. Sure, there are commuter trains too, but the subway system of New York remains legendary. It is that underground transportation system for which this song is named, and it reflects its existence‌always moving. Always vital.

Never silent.

This piece was recorded in The Studio in the Clouds in Bryan, Ohio USA. Equipment used included Roland, Korg and Moog synthesizers, and Fender and Steinberger guitars.

TIM KAYS

ALEJANDRO REMESEIRO

In the year 1991 one of my brothers was subscribed to National Geographic Magazine. In those days, there wasn't Spanish version of the magazine. I remember that one of the numbers in that magazine contained a pretty detailed map of the island of Manhattan. My mother decided to frame it, and put the map in my room. As a kid I really liked the maps of that magazine. For many years I had that map in my room, above the headboard of my bed. And I also had another map in the same room: a detailed map of the Arabian peninsula.

This sound file is my tribute to mental (and physical) maps. I wanted to express how the sound of everyday life is mixed most of time, with things that we still don't know. Peace before the storm. And how the peace, then again, appears in the cities after a disaster.

JACQUELINE HERRANZ BROOKS & LEITHAL MUSIC

Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks and Brian Buchanan aka Leithal Music met on the now defunct Streetfiles website where we posted our photographs of graffiti / street art.

In March 2014 we collaborated on Maldita Pared. Jacqueline's physical work and my sound.

Jacqueline lives in New York and recorded sounds from the Subway and above ground, she recorded them thinking it would be fun to send them later to me!

Then HAZE's Sound Interpretations came to New York!

I got the sounds and with a little editing produced “New York Underground�.

Brian Buchanan aka Leithal About project

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