An imaginary Soundtrack to Paul Austers dystopian novel
'In the Country of Last Things' (published 1987)
Compiled by Dogura Magura | October 2009

Duration --> 1:25:00
Bitrate --> 320 kBit/s | 44.100 kHz
Filesize --> 194,6 MB
Encoder --> Logic Pro 8.0.0

I really enjoyed the dark atmosphere in Paul Austers novel 'In the Country of Last Things' and had the idea to compile an 'imaginary' soundtrack in the spirit of this book.

Altogether this mixtape is meant to be like a walk through devastated cityscapes in a collapsed dystopian society, where people are desperately searching the ruins/streets for food and other essential items. Therefore I used some spatial soundscapes and field-recordings which describe a soiled environmental (for instance: footsteps on broken glass + demolished bricks, vague remnants from radios or turntables with crackling vinyl, sounds from burning objects etc.. ), sometimes accompanied by experimental use of human voice.

SOURCES:

Several albums from different countries + genres (1916-2009), sound-excerpts from movies + surreal short films, excerpts from sound- o...