Overlapping pattern experiment, in and out of phase. The sound of vintage ARP, steeped in a dry martian bouillabaisse.
In 2013, this was chosen to accompany the Nam June Paik sculpture "Vide-O-belisk" at the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis. You can hear it on headphones there when you visit, along with other evocative pieces. Or you can visit their SoundCloud playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/brooks-museum-of-art/sets/the-paik-sessions-2

26,000 Arp Years From Home

Bumpin Ride

• A way to rethink and remix your city •

The sounds of this city surround us like water. Their patterns and rhythms make us what we are. ReMix Memphis encourages people to reflect on the noises of their city, and rearrange the sounds of their lives.

Working with Memphis 3.0 planners, and with the generous support of the UrbanArt Commision, Alex Greene collected citizens' input on noise and sound, raising awareness of the Memphis 3.0 project and helping to plan for the coming decades of the city's growth in a creative way. Starting in 2017, in pop up events throughout the city, he surveyed opinions on the  sounds of helicopters, trains, leaf blowers, chatting neighbors, concerts, birds, booming rides, and even the noises of  gardening, all of which he collected in field recordings. Participants also answered the prompt, “The sound of ___ is so Memphis,” with some fascinating results.

Then, Greene made this library of sounds available to diverse Memphis musicians and producers, to mix and mash up with their own musical inventions. The  result was Producer Tracks @ 3.0. 

The album collects sixteen  tracks from music creators all over the city. The result is dreamlike and rich sonic journey, full of echoes any Memphian will recognize. Let these tracks flow by and you'll hear (and imagine) a bit of the drama going on here in the Bluff City.

Now in 2019, ReMix Memphis presents its field recordings in the Pink Palace Museum’s exhibit marking  the Memphis Bicentennial. Concurrently, we present the first album of our city's most  imaginative producers blending concrete sounds we all know with some of their finest work. And we begin the city’s third century — Memphis 3.0 — with more remixing yet to be done.

All tracks © 2019 by the respective artists
Album cover design: Alex Greene & Tripp Lamkins
Executive producer: Alex Greene

Bumpin Ride

ReMix Memphis

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