Saippuakivikauppias

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"We used most of the whole of the recording as the recording is so poignant and beautiful.
"We generated and overlayered soundscapes, and a reverse of the recording we used an envelope follower (MI Ears) to trigger the piano essentially then two overlaid soundtracks in a journey in opposite directions; some lows and highs undulate.
"We hope traveller to one day reverse his journey and return home.
"The title "saippuakivikauppias" itself means "a journey in both directions" translates to a (flea market?) soapstone seller in English but serves as a well-known palindrome in Finnish."
Tashkent flea market reimagined by Arvik Torrenssen.
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
IMAGE: Alexey Komarov, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons