Suur Toll

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"Whilst listening to the creaking and clacking of the historic icebreaker ship Suur Tōll, rocking back and forth in the gentle waters of Tallinn's harbour, I imagined the hugeness of the ship and the smallness of being a body next to this mass of steel, casually moved by the power of the water.
"I could feel the silence of the harbour punctuated by the resonance of metal on metal, as if each creak and clack were traces of memories of the ship’s ice breaking missions in the frozen Baltic Sea. I was particularly drawn to the crispness of this recording and the eeriness of the sounds. All the sounds for my piece ‘Suur Toll’, from the percussive patterns of clicks and bangs through to the atmospheric melodies and textures, are sampled and modified from the original recording.
"The sounds have been transformed beyond their original context; Clicks and clacks evolve into relentless rhythms propelling the ship through creaking sheets of ice. My track is an experiential piece with a spatial quality that I hope will ignite a space within the mind of the listener and a physical sense of being in this imagined place."
Creaking ropes in Tallinn, Estonia reimagined by Kim[bal] - Kimbal Bumstead.