{"id":1060,"date":"2021-04-14T05:57:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/berlin-symphony-of-a-great-city-archives-uberlinuberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T05:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:57:54","slug":"berlin-symphony-of-a-great-city-archives-uberlinuberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/berlin-symphony-of-a-great-city-archives-uberlinuberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin: Symphony of a Great City Archives : \u00fcberlin\u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2012-06-10T08:56:29+0000\">June 10, 2012<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/berlin-calling-symphony-of-a-great-city\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Berlin Calling: Symphony of a Great City<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"325\" height=\"271\"><object width=\"325\" height=\"271\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OYKu5zegpfc&amp;start=0&amp;autoplay=0\"\/><embed width=\"325\" height=\"271\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OYKu5zegpfc&amp;start=0&amp;autoplay=0\" wmode=\"transparent\"\/><\/object><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"325\" height=\"271\"><object width=\"325\" height=\"271\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MxZCqhtlL-o&amp;start=0&amp;autoplay=0\"\/><embed width=\"325\" height=\"271\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MxZCqhtlL-o&amp;start=0&amp;autoplay=0\" wmode=\"transparent\"\/><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com\/?video1=OYKu5zegpfc&amp;start1=0&amp;video2=MxZCqhtlL-o&amp;start2=0&amp;authorName=%C3%BCberlin\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com']);\">YouTube Doubler<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>[EDIT: I&#8217;ve disabled autoplay on the videos as it was *super* annoying. To experience <\/em>Berlin Calling: Symphony of a Great City<em>, click the two play buttons above in quick succession. Enjoy!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always loved <a title=\"2manydjs\" href=\"\/music-montag-2manydjs-at-bread-butter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mashups<\/a>, and recently Zo\u00eb and I taken to blending Berlin content. We started by turning Fuckparade icon <a title=\"Techno Viking at the 1927 Fuckparade\" href=\"\/techno-viking-at-the-1927-fuckparade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Techno Viking<\/a> into a 1920s silent movie, and now I&#8217;ve mashed together two famous visions of Berlin past and present &#8211; <em><strong>Berlin: Symphony of a Great City<\/strong><\/em> and the soundtrack to Paul Kalkbrenner&#8217;s <em><strong>Berlin Calling<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my eyes on Walter Ruttmann&#8217;s &#8220;city symphony&#8221; for some time, harbouring vague plans to replace its lost score with <a title=\"Berlin Sound: A SoundCloud Group\" href=\"\/berlin-sound-a-soundcloud-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sounds recorded in modern-day Berlin<\/a>. In the meantime, Kalkbrenner will do nicely (although I&#8217;m still pleased with my shortlist of possible soundtracks, local dub techno pioneer <a title=\"Monolake\" href=\"http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com\/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOYKu5zegpfc&amp;start1=22&amp;video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D15nVbbXFf6M&amp;start2=13&amp;authorName=%C3%BCberlin\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com']);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monolake<\/a>, <a title=\"Mogwai\" href=\"http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com\/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOYKu5zegpfc&amp;start1=0&amp;video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpR2Dm9fx1JQ&amp;start2=&amp;authorName=%C3%BCberlin\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com']);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mogwai<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Boys Noize\" href=\"http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com\/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOYKu5zegpfc&amp;start1=0&amp;video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKIvBl8ckG4w&amp;start2=&amp;authorName=%C3%BCberlin\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com']);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boys Noize<\/a> at last year&#8217;s Berlin Festival, and <a title=\"Jimi Hendrix\" href=\"http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com\/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOYKu5zegpfc&amp;start1=0&amp;video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOdd0mCvS9vY&amp;start2=&amp;authorName=%C3%BCberlin\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com']);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s<\/a> 1970 performance at Deutschlandhalle). I was able to knock together these video mashups with the help of the neat tool <a title=\"YouTube Doubler\" href=\"http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com\/\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/youtubedoubler.com']);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube Doubler<\/a>, and our Tweep <a title=\"12pt9\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/12pt9\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/twitter.com']);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12pt9<\/a> who introduced us to it. Danke sch\u00f6n!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think you have a better soundtrack for <em>Symphony of a Great City<\/em>? Got any ideas for other Berlin video mashups?\u00a0Drop us a link in the comments below and we&#8217;ll check them out!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Berlin: Symphony of a Great City black and white\" src=\"http:\/\/cf2.imgobject.com\/t\/p\/original\/8tYgvakmqLSGBHGqzlnvPCKI0i3.jpg\" alt=\"Berlin: Symphony of a Great City black and white\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-5409 defualt\" post_id=\"5409\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/berlin-calling-symphony-of-a-great-city\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/twitter.com']);\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/berlin-calling-symphony-of-a-great-city\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/music\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/berlin-calling\/\" rel=\"tag\">Berlin Calling<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/berlin-symphony-of-a-great-city\/\" rel=\"tag\">Berlin: Symphony of a Great City<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/paul-kalkbrenner\/\" rel=\"tag\">Paul Kalkbrenner<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/berlin-calling-symphony-of-a-great-city\/#comments\">13 comments<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"pageNav\">\n<div class=\"prev\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"next\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 10, 2012 Berlin Calling: Symphony of a Great City by James Glazebrook YouTube Doubler [EDIT: I&#8217;ve disabled autoplay on the videos as it was *super* annoying. To experience Berlin Calling: Symphony of a Great City, click the two play buttons above in quick succession. Enjoy!] I&#8217;ve always loved mashups, and recently Zo\u00eb and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}