We started in 2016 with sound pieces using field recordings in podcasts for a Bucharest sound ecology: the exploration/recording/transformation/transmission of urban intimate memories. Older pieces here, do just that! Newer sound submissions though, make us want to leave the city and the documentary, get lost in illusion/fiction/drama, based just as well in field recording: forms that stimulate stories that transmit that listening state. Of course, it’s just radio, our only medium to theorize and practice listening for space & story, remotely!
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Stimați călători… Gara de Nord!
The busiest railway station in the country, the North Station of Bucharest is a space of constant agitation, eclectic and emotional. Traveler concentration is highest in the space between the information desk and the railway platforms. At any moment in this center of lines of flux are heard the voices of people, sounds associated with their luggage, and the trains with the conductors’ whistles. In this sound documentation I remake the acoustic trajectory of the anonymous traveler through this vast communicating space.