A soundscape from Boston Common to listen to today, as a busker plays an amplified Chinese traditional stringed instrument for passers-by, competing with the industrial drones of leaf-blowing machinery, but cutting through very clearly as we pass closer and closer by him.
City version:
Graeme Worsfold’s reimagined track takes this field recording to a completely new place, as he describes:
“I wanted to compose something as a clarion call for cities across the world in an Olympic year, so this was perfect. Using the sound of the traditional Chinese instrument which was then stretched and chopped up into a ‘siren’ sound, which was then turned into a loop on which the whole track was based.
“The sound was then stretched and modified using granular synth plugins to act as a basis for the main melody sounds. This inspired a woozy analogue-style piece with added guitars and slightly trip-hop beats.”
Memory version:
