Shahr E Gholghola, Afghanistan
Bamyan, 2023
City of screams. City of Dead. Same echoes now.
Soundscape composition, 3D Ambisonics. Shahr-e-Gholghola - Dari: شهر غلغله - City of Screams, City of Woe, City of Sorrows - in Bamyan, Afghanistan. Completely destroyed and population massacred by Genghis Khan in the year 1221. In the recording you can hear the wind, the dust, the sorrow, the memory, screams.
There are no people here now, only rocks. But the sounds are many - dust, mountain wind, faint voices from life
A city once. Now an echo.