Half of us decided to stay in the bus, half of us decided to go up during the night time ferry crossing to Belfast. It was 3am and very peaceful, although everything was caught up into a rattle.

3am Breakfast Ferry

Migration Sounds is the first ever global collection of the sounds of human migration, using sound to reframe and reimagine conversations around migration. 

Sound recordings telling the personal stories of migration from 51 countries have been recomposed and reimagined by artists from all over the world, taking these sounds to an entirely new place.

Reimagined sound by: Fabienne Debarre
Title of reimagined sound: Shimoliy
About the reimagined sound:
I was deeply moved by the recording and text of this artist as soon as I heard and read them. What an incredible sense of space and movement in the recording. It let so many different feelings coexist, a sense of frustration, of feeling stuck but also of hope for what this particular journey will bring. It gives the listener a deep sense of nostalgia in that suspended waiting time, but is also witnessing many different interactions, more lighthearted vignettes and scenes.

I improvised along the recording on a Moog Grandmother, Subharmonicon and DFAM, carried by this amazing train drone, and slightly edited it to play with the echoes and responses I could hear there. The voice of the announcement felt like a structuring and hypnotic moment that could be used as a pivot for the different parts of the composition.

https://citiesandmemory.com/migration/

Fabienne Debarre

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