This piece is based on a field recording of a "casserole protest" ( or cacerolazo ) in Montréal, Canada. It starts with a crescendo and ends with a diminuendo (both of a sort), symbolising the growing groundswell of a popular movement, its climax in protest and then its eventual fading away (or not). A recipe for revolution?
It marked a departure for me techincally in that it was partly created in Audacity and only finished off in Garageband. Having heard some of the contributions to Cities & Memory's "Sacred Spaces" project that used similar techiniques, I was keen to feature manipulation of the tempi of the raw material at the heart of the piece. This is much easier to achieve in Audacity. Most of the audio you will hear is the field recording in its original form or various "re-imaginings".
Voice-over: Cheryl St George.
Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest
