Cities and Memory contributor Lee Barry is running an interesting project called Site-Specific Music, that regular listeners to this site might be interested in. In Lee’s words, this is “a performance of solo instruments or small ensembles in various outdoor locations that are recorded live and released, whereby the recordings can be listened to at a later time with an iPod, reactivating the memory of the original performance in the same location.” It’s an interesting idea, and a distant cousin to Cities and Memory, so we’re happy to give it a shout out. Interested musicians can suggest any place where they’d like to undertake such a performance, and can register to take part here.
Site-specific music project calls for contributors
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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