1534: Finding harmony with a single note (Jerusalem)

Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces

Reimagined by Isaac Strader.

"When I heard this recording, it impacted me immediately - in it’s unaltered state! The Call To Prayer in Jerusalem is so beautiful that I wanted to take some time to reflect on how I should reimagine it. I decided that it didn’t feel right to chop up the sounds and splice clips together; it is a sacred call to prayer so it felt sacrilegious to alter the individual clips.

I wanted to capture some of the history behind the Temple Mount and the conflict between Judaism and Islam. I isolated each call of prayer and treated each one as a different person. I then began layering the calls together to find moments of harmony and dissonance, eventually culminating with the cacophony of each ‘person’ singing at the same time, finding harmony only with a single note is introduced."