Budapest from Europe by Preston Turner

The most impressive aspect of Budapest is the richness of its history and how it has shaped the city, people, architecture, and culture. The city is shaped by its history of early Mongolian invasions, to Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires, to the reign of Communism, and the destruction of World Wars. Naturally, Budapest’s eclectic past provides this modern bustling city with a diverse soundscape. As a reflection of this diversity, Budapest is composed with samples of everything from trains, turkish coffee brewing, and wooden chimes, to ambulances, a glass instrument musician, and the flag at the parliament building (the Országház) flapping in the wind. Budapest is punctuated with the mechanical hisses of its metro system (one of the oldest in the world) mimicking breaths over sounds of the Hungarian flag and ambulance sirens. These harsh sounds of machines, nationalism, and emergencies are juxtaposed by the sounds of Budapest's musicians, citizens, and visitors. Finally, the piece ends with a synthesizer composed with the tranquil sounds of a small streetcar passing by the Országház, moving people forward.

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