Cities And Memory

"The field recording I chose is of an old blind man singing to himself and talking about how he uses sound to get around the city of Coimbra. My partner and I visited the city while travelling around Europe in our VW camper in 2003, and had a lovely experience there, walking the streets, attending an avant garde music event and soaking up the city's atmosphere. We may have even passed this man on a street corner, unaware that I would create a piece of music around him years later. "I wanted to make a piece using the song he was singing to himself, and some of his conversation, as his experience of the city is ALL sound. There is a lot of traffic and activity in the field recording, but the man sounds calm and in his own world. I love the Portuguese language and the sound of his voice. "I wanted my piece to be like the man's sonic daydream, keeping him amused as the world rushes past him on the street corner. I wanted to imagine I was able to hear what was inside his mind. The parts of the field recording I