I often ponder the ingredients of a song - the structure, the chords, the genre, the lyrics... but even then, sometimes I am blown away with surprise, when certain ingredients are put together in such a way that they are far and beyond what I could have anticipated.
Today's post is a really strange, simple idea, but it comes across as really surreal and full of emotion. At youarelisteningtolosangeles.com, the musician? artist? combined the LAPD radio stream with ambient music from soundcloud. The result is this...really, cold musical landscape of a futuristic dystopia. Something straight out of a science fiction film noir. If Blade Runner was being remade in 2011, this is how the film would start.
The ingredients here are simple - ambient music + random cops talking about things going on in the city. Yet the result is so much more. The dialog of the cops are full of codes, and just muffled enough that you can sort of understand them...adding to the mystery of it, and making it seem almost robotic. The music makes it seem more dramatic, like a never ending dialogue of problems in the city....
Just check it out. Very neat. It's also intriguing to see how different ambient pieces change the feeling.
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