Through the power of music, this transportation takes the form of an artistic immersion, we want our audience to feel as if though they were transported to perhaps another time and another place. The ability to do this remarkable feat is possible through the sounds of the city in Paris. Music and sound is something that any human on the planet can comprehend, emotion and relatability within music can be felt by any who hear it. If they so please, a tangibility begins to form, a narrative, things that cannot be said or expressed until heard through the different notes on an instrument or a fabricated sound rendered by a computer.  

Things as mundane as the rhythmic tapping echoes of footsteps on cobblestone, to a metro train wagon screeching to a halt, all coher to a certain tune and pitch. The highest note ever sung was a C8, an incredibly high note not typically humanly possible for anyone to sing, yet somehow this note was reached, despite it being a mere sound, the gravity of which it occurred convey an emotion; disbelief. Regardless of whether this sound was pleasing or agonising to hear, people across the world felt its significance, sound is a medium for language, after all, how would we communicate effectively without it?

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For our time project, we have been working together in order to record the sounds of Paris, but more specifically musical sounds. Going through the metro, there are many live performers that like to demonstrate their abilities through the echoing chambers of the many tunnels that run beneath Paris. Our mission was to collect recordings of music, live, from these performances and choose the best of them and then record our thoughts on top of the scenic tune we’d choose.

Originally, we wanted to incorporate all of our recordings of music in the metro stations of Paris, but decided agains’t it as we thought that our presence concept of our ‘presence’ in daily life, would become lost to the performers beautiful songs. Instead our group focused on trying to reestablish our own presence by recording ourselves either late into the night or during mundane and normal parts of our day i.e. conversations with friends, thought provoking rants, or sounds of our voices. After this, we changed the tone of our voices to match each other and then incorporated our metro music of choice in order to portray both the city’s presence and our own, our essence of life and thoughts filtering through the noise of the beautiful city of Paris.