"This sound installation is a mix of the sounds of three different cites, Alexandria, Belgrade and Ancona. I meant to change the environment of the audio materials and to put it in a contradicted sound design and drone notes I created a three different spaces happens at the same time in the final mix. The listener could feel lost in the space between those environments and cultures".
Ahmed Saleh, Alexandria
Born in Alexandria, 1985. A musician and sound artist, studied at the faculty of Fine Arts. Has been performing as an active musician since 2005 and his work has ranged from making sound art and movie sound tracks, to collaborating on different music projects. Currently he is a part of some well-known music acts like Telepoetic and Saleh & Miniawy. His music will be released soon in Europe by the French record label Full Fridge.

Ahmed Saleh: Interactive Diaries Soundtrack

"For the installation I created a stereo track mixing the field recordings picked uo in the port area of Ancona with the track recorded in Egypt and Serbia by the other two sound artists. I followed the time sequence of the stereophonic recording, morning, evening and night, aiming at contructing a fourth soundscape, unique in itself, which spanned the whole day".
Alessio Ballerini, Ancona
Born in Ancona 1980. A sound designer and film maker. Studied music technology and art. In 2010 founded AIPS - Archivio Italiano Paesaggi Sonori and in 2013 founded Oak, an art music label.

Alessio Ballerini: Interactive Diaries Soundtrack

This is a long track that was played as a background of the sound installation for the Interactive Diaries. Check out the track below to hear the "interuption" samples that the audience could play using a sampler to interact with the long track.
https://soundcloud.com/interactive_diaries/predrag-sestic-interactive-diaries-samples-previewfor-the-interactive-installation-belgrade
"On the day 11th October I recorded my day without any preparation or thinking about the recording, and I have a recording of most interesting parts, from 12pm till 6-7am. First it was the sound of a roster, birds, dogs, church bell in the morning. Than I was recording things that I did in the middle day, evening chat with my friend Mariko from Japan and than party time [...] So, there is all bunch of sounds, in my home, from the streets, market, club life, even bus and the river Sava."
Predrag Šestić a.k.a. Shekimon, Belgrade.
Born in Zadar (CRO), 1979. Music producer, electronic music teacher, DJ, sound designer, sound artist. Studied information technology. Producing electronic music since year 2000.

Predrag Šestić: Interactive Diaries Soundtrack

"Interuption" samples that the audience could play using a sampler to interact with the long track "Predrag Šestić: Interactive Diaries Soundtrack"
https://soundcloud.com/interactive_diaries/predrag-sestic-interactive-diaries-sounds-of-the-city-long-trackpreview

Predrag Šestić: Interactive Diaries samples for the interactive installation, Belgrade

Interactive Diaries aims to encourage intercultural interaction through the art mediums of illustration, photography and sound art - providing a virtual common ground for collaboration between artists, enabling mutual understanding and creating bonds across cultural and social differences. 
Interactive Diaries is a project by Cultural Innovators Network (CIN). Partner organizations: OneYouth (Italy), Nebograd (Serbia). Cultural Innovators Network is a project of the Goethe-Institut as part of the German-Arab Transformation Partnership and is financed by the German Federal Foreign Office.
The idea behind the Interactive Diaries in the form of sound art is to have an intercultural soundtrack with the personalized soundscapes/portraits of the different cities. The final result are three different soundtracks made of the intermingled sound portraits registered by the three sound artists. The participants registered the sounds of their cities during the whole day of the interaction, divided into three parts: early morning, mid-day and night. They uploaded then all the registered sound bites in a specific folder shared with their counterparts in the other countries. Each sound artist used all the registered sound bites coming from Ancona (Italy), Alexandria (Egypt) and Belgrade (Serbia) to compose a completely new intercultural soundtrack, “a fourth soundscape, unique in itself”, as described by Alessio Ballerini, Italian sound designer. Some of the artists produced also an interactive installation for the offline exhibition which took place some weeks after the interaction. “The listener could feel lost in the space between environments and cultures”, stated Ahmed Saleh, the Egyptian participant.