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Cities and Memory – remixing the world

Ammonite

14 min • 23 mars 2025
"The sound of modern humyns chipping away at solid rock searching for ancient organisms that have been turned to stone through pressure and time... the percussion of tool use was the perfect place to start, maybe the use of tools is where the idea of instrumental music came from in the first place... thoughts of musical evolution as humyns evolved with as much slowness as the forces that turned those organisms into solid rock... gradually multiplying percussion lines are kinda like the evolving complexity of life. 66 million years is an inconceivable length of time. at one point in the recording, you can hear a humyn voice, so i isolated that voice and stretched it out and used it as a melody line... as humyn voices mix with percussion, thoughts of the primal nature of percussion and voice, how ancient is this kind of humyn sound? sonic heritage indeed. 

"The piece ended up having three movements: the first is the percussive rhythmic stomp of humyn activity... i pictured more and more humyns adding their particular rhythm to the party. the second is the collapse and fragmentation of the rhythms, kinda mirroring the fracturing of the stone but also could be a metaphor for the energy of life ending, crossing the threshold of life and death, turmoil, the forces that end one branch of the evolutionary tree, the extinctions that are a necessary part of evolution, the end of living that meant we can find these organisms turned to stone millions of years later. the third and final part is the stretching and distorting of time and sediment as the sound becomes crushed beneath its own increasing weight, the forces that fossilise... petrifying flattening denseness... and the piece is over."

Lyme Regis beach reimagined by The Fruiting Body.
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This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights. 

Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

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