![]() “The recording is slightly reorganized but mostly used in its original form and not really manipulated. It reminds me of backpacking in my youth, of train travels with family, of the way trains capture our dreams. I have never been there, but stations tend to sound more or less the same everywhere in the world. “My music here is constructed on top of a wonderful recording of a train station at Ho Chi Min in Vietnam. ![]() “I started by slicing together the not-quite-silences and random noises that lay between and around the bells in the original recording, then (slightly, and with apologies to the ringers) restructured elements of the peal, after which a piano melody wove itself through and around both.”Īlso from the Well-Being Cities project is this wonderful piece by Stefan Klaverdal, who uses the piano to express something of the melancholy of travel: Our second piece is from Abbazia Pisani in northern Italy, with a beautiful piece based on New Year’s Day church bells by de Velden. “This piece is a quiet, sad lament against Coca-Cola, against Nike, and by extension against everything that makes our cities the same, and a plea to keep the idiosyncrasies that ensure the places we live are truly well-being cities.” Wherever there is commerce, there are the mega-brands, and the more homogenised our spaces become, the worse it is for the well-being of our cities. “The brand colours, logos and slogans have invaded every urban space on the planet. “Having visited Rwanda a few years ago, when exploring its urban markets, as well as what is different, one is struck by what is similar – monolithic global brands like Coca-Cola and Nike stamp their presence on even the tiniest, most characterful spaces in human lives. We start in Rwanda, with a piece from our Well-Being Cities project called “Against Coca-Cola”: Happy World Piano Day! To mark this wonderful annual celebration of such an important instrument, we’ve compiled a few highlights from Cities and Memory compositions over recent projects that use the piano as a central element – these are sounds that combine the piano with the sounds of the world to create something new. Published on: 29th March 2023 Published in: Latest
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