Reflection

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"When I received the original recording, I’ve noticed this kind of a strange reflection that exist in an environment of recording. All sounds, despite whole noisiness of the space, were somehow reflected almost like a regular delay line. I took this phenomenon as a main subject in composition.
"During the work on the material, I’d been trying to "zoom in" on the sound and try to express this idea of the reflection as much as possible. "Zooming in" gave me a lot of different material, that can’t be found during regular listening.
"I think this idea of the reflection corresponds in very strange way to the story that covers under the recording. These poor three women, which were forced to abandon their personal stuff, they didn’t receive any "emotional reflection" from the workers of the airport, but the space was responding to them."
Conversation in Tripoli reimagined by Ilia Viazov.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration