Agora
CD + Digital AlbumCD release on LOM label (Bratislava, Slovakia), November 11, 2020
Sound compositions based on field recordings I made while traveling in 2018-2019. Sound sketches from Toronto, Naples, Geneva, Batumi, Dresden, Strasbourg, Marseille and Saint Petersburg.
If I was a birder I would haunt marches and reefs in search of the perfect dawn chorus, but as a city dweller I'm listening to the secret music of the city: voices of passersby, spectacles and meeting points, close-ups and crowd scenes. How to join the crowd again without the fear of strangers?
"Agora" is a Greek word that literally means "gathering place" or "assembly". The agora was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states.
Sounds and compositions by Alëna Korolëva
Recorded in 2018-2019, composed in summer 2020
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Tracks from the album were included in programs of
Framework Radio - framework #725
CIUT.FM, Toronto - Electric Sense