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Cusack, Peter: Favourite Sounds of Berlin (Recommended Records)

Site recordings from Berlin by audio explorer Peter Cusack, documenting evocative locations throughout the city based on an inquiry into Berlin resident's favorite sounds, with a booklet detailing the 31 recordings and the scope of the project.
 

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Peter Cusack

Anna Bogner

Elen Flugge

Thomas Koch

Jasmine Guffond

Klaus Hamlescher

Valeria Merlini

Udo Noll


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UPC: 7527250318202

Label: Recommended Records
Catalog ID: ReRPC5
Squidco Product Code: 18450

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2013
Country: Great Britain
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded by Peter Cusack, Anna Bogner, Elen Flugge, Thomas Koch, Jasmine Guffond, Klaus Hamlescher, Valeria Merlini, and Udo Noll on various dates.

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"A beautifully realised sound homage to the city of Berlin, presenting its signature sounds, exquisitely recorded, in a carefully documented and evocatively designed package. There's not a lot more to say; This does exactly what it says on the cover."-Recommended Records



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Artist Biographies

"Peter Cusack is a field recordist, musician and researcher with a long interest in the sound environment. Projects include community arts, researches into sound and our sense of place and documentary recordings in areas of special sonic interest (Lake Baikal, Siberia). His project Sounds From Dangerous Places explores soundscapes at sites of major environmental damage - Chernobyl exclusion zone; Caspian oil fields; UK nuclear sites. This project continues and is currently researching the regeneration of the North Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. He describes the use of sound to investigate documentary issues as sonic journalism.

He initiated the Favourite Sound Project in London 1998. It aims to discover what people find positiv

"Peter Cusack is a field recordist, musician and researcher with a long interest in the sound environment. Projects include community arts, researches into sound and our sense of place and documentary recordings in areas of special sonic interest (Lake Baikal, Siberia). His project Sounds From Dangerous Places explores soundscapes at sites of major environmental damage - Chernobyl exclusion zone; Caspian oil fields; UK nuclear sites. This project continues and is currently researching the regeneration of the North Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. He describes the use of sound to investigate documentary issues as sonic journalism.

He initiated the Favourite Sound Project in London 1998. It aims to discover what people find positive about their everyday sound environment and has since been carried out in Beijing, Berlin, Manchester, Southend-on-Sea, Prague, Birmingham and Taranto. He co-produced the environmental sound program Vermilion Sounds for ResonanceFM, London and was a research fellow on the multidisciplinary 'Positive Soundscapes Project' 2006/9.

During 2011/12 he was a DAAD artist in residence in Berlin, where he worked on the collaborative project Berlin Sonic Spaces that explored the relationship between soundscape and city development.

He has had a long-term interest in improvised music, usually on guitar. CDs include Where is the Green Parrot? (ReR PC1); Your Favourite London Sounds (Resonance); A Host of Golden Daffodils (Platelunch) with Nic Collins; Operet (Rere121) with Viv Corringham; Day For Night (Paradigm) with Max Eastley; Baikal Ice (ReR PC2); Favourite Beijing Sounds (KwanYin 022); Sound from Dangerous Places (ReR PC3&4); Favourite Berlin Sounds (ReR PC5)."

e about their everyday sound environment and has since been carried out in Beijing, Berlin, Manchester, Southend-on-Sea, Prague, Birmingham and Taranto. He co-produced the environmental sound program Vermilion Sounds for ResonanceFM, London and was a research fellow on the multidisciplinary 'Positive Soundscapes Project' 2006/9.

During 2011/12 he was a DAAD artist in residence in Berlin, where he worked on the collaborative project Berlin Sonic Spaces that explored the relationship between soundscape and city development.

He has had a long-term interest in improvised music, usually on guitar. CDs include Where is the Green Parrot? (ReR PC1); Your Favourite London Sounds (Resonance); A Host of Golden Daffodils (Platelunch) with Nic Collins; Operet (Rere121) with Viv Corringham; Day For Night (Paradigm) with Max Eastley; Baikal Ice (ReR PC2); Favourite Beijing Sounds (KwanYin 022); Sound from Dangerous Places (ReR PC3&4); Favourite Berlin Sounds (ReR PC5)."

-UAL: Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (https://crisap.org/people/peter-cusack/)
3/27/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Bells Of The Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche, Breitscheidplatz 3:50

2. Boats And Waves, River Spree At Bellevue 3:13

3. S-Bahn Trains, Alexanderplatz Station 2:18

4. Midnight Crowds, Warschauerstrasse S-Bahn Station 2:25

5. Schinkstrasse Hinterhof 2:31

6. Table Tennis Outdoors 1:44

7. Panke River Quiet 2:22

8. U-Bahn Screeching, Gleisdreieck Bridges 1:39

9. Traffic Light Clicks, Passing Trams 2:22

10. Riverside Atmosphere, Treptower Park 2:30

11. Glass Bottle Recycling, Marienburgerstrasse Hinterhof 1:52

12. Football By Ear, Germany V Greece Euro2012 1:36

13. Small Stones Thrown On Ice, Engelbecken 1:57

14. U-Bahn Sounds, Late Evening Klosterstrasse Station 2:54

15. Berlin Nightingale, Midnight 3:12

16. Quiet Streets In The Small Hours, Footsteps, Home 3:35

17. Blackbird, Hinterhof Dawn 4.00am 2:33

18. Reuterstrasse Hinterhof 8.00am 3:12

19. Stralau Church Bell Chimes 7.00am 0:47

20. Trumpet And Accordion Street Musicians 2:38

21. Maybachufer Street Market Walk 2:39

22. Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Regional Train Jingles 2:33

23. S-Bahn Acceleration, Inside The Train 2:15

24. 'Passengers For Schoenefeld Airport, Please Change Here' 1:47

25. Seaplane, Summertime, Stralau 0:49

26. Tempelhof Airfield Atmosphere With Crickets 2:33

27. Synchronous Kite Flying, Tempelhof Airfield 3:17

28. Wind Through Canvas And Plastic Sheeting 2:13

29. Teufelsberg, Cold War Reverberation 5:31

30. Bicycles On Cobblestones, Bergmannstrasse 1:47

31. New-Year Fireworks From The 24th Floor 2:49

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