3334: MinaCity 2020 - a podcast by Cities and Memory

Oxford Circus, London lockdown sound reimagined by Camilla Fanning.

"The sound was just so normal, it reminded me of travel and short city hops. I often visit pals in the UK, but now this is going to be difficult. It got me thinking about how underneath all the ordinariness there is something lurking. There is a sense of unease, of an alarm at any moment.

"I wanted to take the recording and twist it, manipulate the original to expose this under-layer. We start by hearing the fairly normal sounds of the international identity that is London, a world capital. But bit by bit we hear something discordant. There is something wrong. And then we realise - there is a warning, and finally, we hear the alarm.

"The word for this feeling is Minacious, from the Latin minax, to threaten, which then became the title - MinaCity 2020."

Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds

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