Cities And Memory

This piece began with the field recording: Bom war song and dance from Cameroon. I decided that rather than treating this recording as an objective document of place or cultural practice, I approached it as a temporal fracture in time, the past reanimated. I looked at the recording as a rhythm already severed from the moment that produced it, yet able to reengaged and affect the listener in 2026. This recording felt both ancient and current, both in the same moment, yet a sonic event which felt distant. Being an ever changing and varying rhythmic loop with vocal elements, it felt that this piece became the next stage in the loop's recurrence.I was drawn to the idea that recorded rhythm, like recorded voice, folds time back on itself. Each repetition becomes a reinterpretation, producing a new perception with every cycle. The entire composition is derived from this single recording. The source material contained a strong rhythmic pattern which subtly shifted over time, revealing internal variations rather tha