Cities And Memory

"When I visited Mexico in 1994, I didn't think to bring a tape recorder to document the environmental sounds, but we were high up in the dry mountains south of Monterrey; sounds beside the wind may have been scarce. Calakmul is a thousand miles away as the snake-grasping eagle flies and we certainly would not have heard anything like the insect soundscape that Erick Ruiz Arellano collected.  "My initial approach to working with Arellano's recording was to play along with my clarinet; it's what I do to Vanessa Gelvin's recordings in our Bricoleurs project. But clarinet did not seem to fit and I turned instead to my primary instrument, the prepared guitar. The buzzes of metal against the strings seemed to blend in with the buzz of insects, and unexpectedly, the sudden whine of controlled feedback at the end recalled the very clarinet I had rejected. Finding the aspects that fit in together delights me to no end; it is the Artist's Touch I strive to find." UNESCO listing:  Recorded by  XXXX reimagined by bre