Peripatetic (Various Locations, 2009)

Peripatetic – adjective. 1. Travelling from place to place, esp working or based on various places for relatively short periods. 2. with reference to the Aristotle’ s practice of walking to and fro while teaching (Oxford American Dictionary).

Peripatetic consists entirely of unprocessed cityscape recordings, exploring this way the musicality of everyday sounds and ambulatory recording practices.

Listen to an excerpt here.

Technical Specifications

Cityscape recordings from Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, York, London, Vienna, Brussels, Gent, Antwerp, Liverpool, Leeds and from various means of transportation between these cities, miscellaneous microphones and solid-state recorders.

Duration

44’18”.

Publication

CDR by ΑΓΧΙΒΑΤΕΙΝ (Athens 2009).

Acknowledgements

Music Research Centre, Tony Myatt (special thanks), all those somehow involved in my trips in these cities.