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
"They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but how far does audio go?
That is exactly what Stuart Fowkes has set out to achieve over the last decade involving the contribution of more than 2,000 artists who are putting together sounds f...
"Listening to the soundscape from Taksim Square, life is going on as normal, with bustling crowds, but periodically we hear a police siren, which echoes through the square almost like a spectral reminder of the police brut...
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 Anders Vinjar.
Pohjala brewery, Tallinn reimagined by Karhide...
Recorded in September 2024 by Cities and Memory.
"The human ums, aahs, stamps and claps are...
Recorded by Cities and Memory.
Holocaust survivors then share their stories, interwoven with supporting music. Abrupt cuts jolt listeners back to the haunting recording at Auschwitz. As the piece progresses, survivors' warnings blend with news clips and co...
"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"
© Anders...
Recorded by Cities and Memory.
"The field recording captured birdsong and locals passing through a quiet public garden in central Mantua, five minutes after the Emilia earthquakes. I wanted to depict the contrast between the calmness of the M...
Krakow trumpet call reimagined by Moray Newlands.
IMAGE: Oliszydlowski, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
The bugler plays the same call four times, once in each of the cardinal directions. This tradition dates back to medieval times, when the call was used to signal the opening and closing of the ci...
This recording is a walkthrough of some of the exterior concrete tunnels and walkways that make up this brutalist masterpiece - foo...
This complex has fascinated me for many years, and I have always been curious to seek out new nooks and crannies there. I took my curiosity about the place into how I approached the work.
"The rhythmic footsteps are the core motif of the piece, even though they are not the most dominant sonic aspect, they are the anchor point from which to ...
"I was inspired by the F#-A train horn to create ...
Palo Alto is a small town and these sounds can be heard from most parts of town as trains ...
Near the waterfalls, the relentless hum of helicopters and planes filled the air, battling the flames alongside over 5,000 firefighters. This soundscape embodies a community's crisis, resilience, and the...
"I use the full sample to start and end the piece, with a drone-like part of the...
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