The original audio source for this piece came from recording a trip on the Chicago Red Line train from one end of the line (Howard), to the other (95th/Dan Ryan).
160 minutes of sound were recorded before being pared down to the 15 minutes which comprise this movement; a process that required over 300 separate cuts and edits and twelve hours of piecing together to form the stemmed collage of the track that was then taken and immersed with echo, and reverb before being layered several times over to complete the final piece.
From beginning to end, the piece is cut in a linear fashion, in the way that the sounds were recorded from one end of the train line to the other. By listening to the piece in its entirety, one is essentially hearing the full breadth of sounds encompassed within the full train ride.
As I was building the layers, I was able to mash together areas of quiet and loud - moments that on a train ride in real time, may not be immediately noticeable if one is pre-occupied. Doing this, I began to hear rhythms, patterns and sounds that would sustain like drones as they moved from one level to another.
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