A ghost in the marketplace

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"My plan for this piece was to make some fairly delicate synth sounds and to gradually blur them into a drone as the market hubbub and street announcements take over to create a sensation of being lost in the crowd, inebriated by the energy that comes from being in such a lively environment.
"I'm fairly ignorant of Thai culture but I understand that stories of ghosts and spirits, both vengeful and protective, have historically been quite important to the Thai people. I imagined myself as a phantom out of place breezing through these foreign surroundings. A gentle visitor from afar."
Thanin market, Chiang Mai reimagined by Jamie Philpin-Jones.