Cinco Cidades
Cinco Cidades is a cross-disciplinary project documenting the cultures and sounds of five cities in Portugal. Recordings of local musicians and ambient sounds were used to create a series of interactive sound maps for each city, which visitors can use to create compositions.
Cinco Cidades is a cross-disciplinary project documenting the cultures and sounds of five cities across Portugal.
The work began with field trips to five cities in March 2007, working with local communities to record local musicians, residents and ambient sounds that represent each city.
The results of this work have been used to create a series of interactive soundmaps - where visitors can remix sounds and voices from each city to create their own compositions.
The project culminates in a live tour across Portugal in May 2007 with musicians William Parker, Victor Gama, and Guillermo Brown (playing as “The Folk Songs Trio”). In each city, The Folk Songs Project will create an ambient backdrop of sounds from that city, against which the musicians will create an improvised performance.
The website is an ongoing repository of sounds and musics - featuring recordings submitted by people in each city. We welcome any new submissions on an ongoing basis.
Cinco Cidades was concieved and executed by The Folk Songs Project, in partnership with Pangeiart.