Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world. The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world. What you'll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those sounds. Each podcast description tells you more about what you're hearing, and where it came from. There are more than 7,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 130 countries and territories. The sounds cover parts of the world as diverse as the hubbub of San Francisco’s main station, traditional fishing women’s songs at Lake Turkana, the sound of computer data centres in Birmingham, spiritual temple chanting in New Taipei City or the hum of the vaporetto engines in Venice. You can explore the project in full at www.citiesandmemory.com

Episodes

Berliner Mauer

October 8, 2025 • 13 mins
"My composition, titled “Berliner Mauer,” draws inspiration from ambisonics recordings made by Anders Vinjar at the Berlin Wall.

"The Berlin Wall, officially known as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart, was a fortified concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It physically separated West Berlin from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Construction of the Berlin Wall be...
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At the Berlin Wall

October 8, 2025 • 10 mins
Ambisonics recording at the wall, physically separating Eastern Europe from Western Europe in Berlin during the Cold War in the years 1961 to 1989.

This recording is part of the HEYR project, presenting 3-dimensional soundscapes from special locations, connected to special events. Find out more by visiting https://www.heyr.no

Recorded by Anders Vinjar.
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Shanghai interlude

October 8, 2025 • 1 min
"I liked the space in the recording, and used it to slot in percussive and electronic elements to create a composition where all elements had parity of presence."

Sanlin Old Street, Shanghai reimagined by Fergus Kelly. 
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Nomme

October 5, 2025 • 7 mins
"Estonian autumns arrive with shortening days, cooler air, and long, unbroken stretches of rain. There is also a particular sound to this small country — quiet, restrained, and deliberate. Voices fall softly; movement slows; even the strings of daily life seem slightly muted. In such an atmosphere, time itself can begin to blur.

"This recording, made in Nõmme, Estonia, tries to capture that sensation — the drift of so...
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Nighttime In Sabah rainforest

October 5, 2025 • 12 mins
Estimated to be more than 130 million years old, the ancient rainforest of Sabah comes alive in sound as night descends. The air vibrates with the calls of nocturnal creatures, forming a chorus in the darkness. From the steady hum of countless insects to the distant cries of animals hidden, the forest pulses with life. 

Within this vast wilderness dwell some of the world’s rarest and most remarkable beings - the Orang...
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The ice on Son Kul lake

October 5, 2025 • 21 secs
The ice on Son Kul lake, Kyrgyzstan melting with spring coming. Recorded by Melissa Aubin.
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Nomme's daily fruit and veg market

October 5, 2025 • 7 mins
At the fruit and veg market in the Nomme district in Tallinn, with shopper buying their weekly groceries on a windswept day. Rain starts midway through the recording and we shelter beneath the canopies and listen to the rain beating down above our heads.

Nõmme is a natural district of Tallinn. Some of the most beautiful residences from traditional wooden to art nouveau styles stand underneath the pine trees of Nõmme. ...
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Rainy traffic noise, Trabzon

October 5, 2025 • 3 mins
In this recording, traffic sounds increase during thunderstorms and rainy weather. In wet conditions, vehicle engines and tires are more audible. These sounds can be heard as a form of white noise and are sometimes accompanied by thunder.

Recorded in Trabzon, Türkiye by Ugur Aslan.
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Humidity and haze passing thoughts

October 5, 2025 • 4 mins
"I kept the original recording and a filtered it a bit and afterwards I added a pad. Humidity & Haze capturing the feeling of the air and the rain-streaked city, while the "Passing Thoughts" introduces the human element (the traffic). The combination of pad with the detached sounds of the rainstorm and traffic creates a feeling of lonely movement or stillness in a noisy world."

Rainstorm in Trabzon reimagined by K...
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Sabah boreal Borneo radio

October 5, 2025 • 5 mins
"The original piece had a feeling to me of drifting through the rainforest canopy, so I thought it would be interesting to contrast these sounds with the "jungle" of empty space between radio signals."

Borneo rainforest recording reimagined by {AN} EeL
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Lake ice meltdown

October 5, 2025 • 3 mins
"Sitting among the glaciers in the living room, my ears are carried away by the enchanting sound of tectonic movements... my mind floats, my eyes glimpse this sonorous place..."

Kyrgyzstan Son Kul ice lake reimagined by Philippe Neau.
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A better day will come

October 3, 2025 • 5 mins
"Listening to the sound of the market in Ramallah just a week before it was attacked and burnt was a powerful experience - but to hear that later after that the market was repaired, regenerated and back in action was an even stronger feeling of the power of resistance.

"The beautiful poem "A better day will come" by Afghan poet Hosnia Mohseni seemed to me to strike the perfect tone of hope and possibility among fear a...
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Diamond I am

October 3, 2025 • 5 mins
When I first listened to the recording of the depopulated village in Jerusalem, what really stood out was the bird song sounding like a voice of hope. I decided to use this as my focus as it was in keeping with the Echoes For Palestine Project theme ’hope, healing and a reimagined future’.

I wrote the lyrics from the point of view of the village itself longing for inhabitants to return. The village grieved because of ...
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All lands, one voice

October 3, 2025 • 10 mins
"All lands, one voice drifts like breath through every place at once.

"Choral fragments rise and dissolve inside an ambient field, evoking a world without borders.

Robert Lax’s line — “the same moment in every place” — guides this sound: a single moment, stretched to gather all lands in one voice."

Jerusalem apartheid wall recording by Anders Vinjar reimagined by Paul Beaudoin.
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Pomegranates and prose

October 3, 2025 • 5 mins
"It takes Palestinian prayer and thoughts with repeated phrases including 'so hasten to all that is good' whilst encouraging the people of Palestine to march forward despite the conflict. Using loops and samples from recent news reports to build a picture of the current situation against a backdrop of hope."

Dubberrookie creates ambient dub sounds often with a back story to each composition. Often including his own fo...
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Mount of Olives

October 3, 2025 • 6 mins
"For this track, I used the field recording made by Anders Vinjar on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. This place has always had a mythical resonance to my ears, it sounds like a place of sacred peace, but obviously it is no longer.

"What I tried to express through this piece is how a land of peace gradually transforms into a place of conflict, how what was once a sacred site has become a battlefield. After starting c...
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Seven days before

October 3, 2025 • 7 mins
"Built from a field recording by Anders Vinjar of Ramallah’s Al-Hisba market, captured one week before Israeli soldiers set it ablaze, Seven Days Before transforms the market’s voices, footsteps, and ambient bustle into a slow-moving reflection on memory, loss, and the fragile beauty of everyday life via modular synthesis. 

"The source recording is processed through Make Noise Morphagene and accompanied by melodies pr...
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Echoes at the wall

October 3, 2025 • 11 mins
"A meditation on life, disrupted by injustice. I listened to the location recordings and was inspired but saddened by the sounds of life as it goes on under conflict. The two field recordings were used both relatively unprocessed, but also through a feedback network of resonant delays. Location recording by Anders Vinjar."

Wailing Wall, Jerusalem reimagined by Logickal. 
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Aṭ-Ṭūr, Mount of Olives

October 3, 2025 • 7 mins
Recordings of ambience from Aṭ-Ṭūr (Mount of Olives) overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem. The Al Aqsa temple-mount in the distance, the jewish graveyard close by, site of important historic and contemporary events. The recording is from April 2024, while the catastrophic war in Gaza was going on full speed. 

This soundscape-composition is part of the HEYR project, presenting 3-dimensional soundscapes from special lo...
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Al-Hisba market, Ramallah

October 3, 2025 • 10 mins
The famous market Al-Hisba in Ramallah. Sounds of busy buying and selling. This Ambisonics recording was done exactly one week before Israeli soldiers lit the whole place on fire, destroying everything. 

This soundscape-composition is part of the HEYR project, presenting 3-dimensional soundscapes from special locations, connected to special events.  Find out more by visiting https://www.heyr.no

Recorded by An...
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