Cities And Memory

"In “Strands/Textures”, I weave together the field recording (as the main strand), with other strands of sounds inspired by the descriptive phrases and aerial images in the materials describing this section of the Lech. This piece was created in VCVRack2 using a combination of the original field recording, field recordings/foley sounds created specifically for this track, and modules available in VCVRack. "For the “string of pearls” imagery used to describe the appearance of this section from above, I added in recordings of beads and jingle bells being strung on a filament and recordings of plucking the filament. I incorporated “ears of the upper Lech” and the notions of taking space and time into the spoken word section, which is also a moment of calm and pause, but also of direction for moving forward. In a bit of word- and sound-play around the braiding of the river being constrained, I used a specific constraint for the sequenced parts of the track, I used Audible Instruments’ Macro Oscillator (the VCVRa