The Met Life series is an ambitious project where sound artists around the world make a field recording of the city where they live and then use that recording to compose a "response" recording. Helvacioglu's disc is the fourth in the series, with a location recording from a bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey, followed by Helvacioglu's remix of the same. The field-recording track opens with the typical urban noise of cars and honking horns, with a few stray voices thrown in, but the vehicles soon become m...   [ read more ]

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