The field recording takes us from tour group to tour group inside the world-famous Colosseum, with each guide bringing their own style and their own facts and anecdotal stories about the incredible history of this space.

This composition imagines standing at the back of one of these tour groups, half-listening to what the guide is saying, but then allowing the eyes to drift upwards, allowing the attention to drift outwards, and a pure sensation of the beauty, importance and history of this space to be felt directly throughout the body.

The piece is about direct, unmediated experience of an iconic, important site, without the need for further explanation, for tour guides, or for anything else, and how a simple and pure connection between the individual and the space is more challenging than ever in today's age of overtourism. 

Colosseum in Rome, reimagined by Cities and Memory.

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This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights.

Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage
 

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