Michelle Breslin - Hope Carries Us

In today’s episode we’re speaking with Michelle Breslin, a composer, musician, and field recordist based in Toronto, Canada, who goes by the artist name Lostworldsounds.

Michelle worked on Segment 3 of the river Lech, near the village of Stockach in Austria — a stretch that was narrowed over time to serve the communities living alongside it, and has only recently been widened again to restore what the river needed. Michelle heard that story in the water itself.

When she first listened to her field recording, she noticed overtones rising from the river that sounded to her like voices from the distant past. That image became the heart of her composition. She gathered four singers, Adelaide and Madison Santos, Julia Maja, Scotch Camera, and Michelle herself, into a reverberant rooftop room, to recreate those ancient-sounding voices.

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