Cities And Memory

"I was struck by a paradox in this segment of the river's story. How at the same time, the river here is both so heavily modified - by channelisation and with a dam for hydropower - and yet, this reservoir also offers a kind of nature 'oasis'. As Martina Cecchetto explained; "widely lacking in natural geomorphic dynamics - so much so that there is a redirection of the layer of Quaternary gravels (and unpredictable incision rates to the channel bed - )". "And yet, "Whilst the reservoir also here, is artificial and this place is "devoid of millions of years of minerals...it hosts pristine nature in its present form". I was also struck by the maps and visuals showing the once multiple channels of river - now a straightened single channel river, and the beautiful coloured video realisation. "Taking Flow artist Salma Caller's wonderful suggestion, of incorporating preceding segment sounds, this number 20 sound work requotes and resamples from Bill McKenna's segment 1's offered extract and from Anja Kreysing's seg