Mikolajewicz

Walking the city at night especially during the week when the sounds of weekend revelling don't interfere, I noticed (as I guess everyone will have) the spooky repetitiveness of noisepatterns in a big city. Though made up of countless superficially unrelated individual sounds, the resulting cacophony seems to follow an undercurrent of rhythm and even strangely harmonic flow - the sound of a never sleeping hive supporting itself.



Any individual of the hive is apparently following his or her own goals, schedules and patterns but is perpetually and irrevocably intertwined with neighbours, work- and other hivemates - classified, claimed and controlled by the system of the hive.



I spent countless nights in various backyards, subway tubes, industrial areas and derelict houses with recording equipment trying to capture the sounds of the hive.

The recordings were heavily compressed, pitched downwards, filtered and compressed again. The resulting dark soundscapes were layered, mixed with some musicsamples and the heavily resonating, interfering pads arranged into patterns - not songs really, but some sort of accoustic pictures - trying to mirror and stress the subtle harmonic undercurrent of the urban background noises.