Moving to the city

In this post we celebrate a superb piece of creativity on SoundShoots that explores the contrasts between rural and urban life.

What’s fascinating about “City Smile” by new SoundShooter Trotfox is that he’s created an urban soundscape that evokes the type of peace and serenity that’s native to the countryside. This approach sheds a whole new light on urban life, showing that the city is not just a grey landscape with and an unrelenting energy, but with the right perspective you can discover a slower, more beautiful side of the urban jungle.

Trotfox, aka Josh Levontine from Exeter, UK, explains the process behind his track…

“Having only recently moved to a city from the farm where I grew up, I’m freshly reflective of the nuances of urban life in comparison to life amongst the trees and grass of the countryside – the boundaries put up to accommodate cramped lifestyles, the vast wells of human history trodden into the concrete.

While creating this piece I focused on the similarities between the two lifestyles, wanting to portray the parallels between city and nature: The breathy synths evoking the breeze winding through streets, the horn beckoning the sunrise over a cityscape, the birdsong cutting across the rumble of motors to perch on the high frequencies.”

Click the image below to explore Trotfox’s beautiful ambient creation…

Click the image to explore “City Smile” by Trotfox

More than anything, “City Smile” is a powerful demonstration of perspective – whether it be finding serenity in the city or taking positivity from a gloomy situation, life is whatever you make of it.

We thank Trotfox for demonstrating this so beautifully!

– Oliver