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
The piece asks how honouring the serpent—through ...
|Our recorded history manifests as a unified drive toward the divine. Modern existentialism folds in elements of increased division and loss of direction on the path to fulfilment.
"We live in an era that measures progression and success with an obsessive focus on wide-spread improvement at every level. Yet, when w...
"I started by isolating the most at...
The piece explores the ambiguity of the city’s history and the debate between its potential ‘Three Hills’ Latin etymology and its Celtic origins.
The production includes processed samples from a Celtic-like vocal melody alongside the fountain's texture...
Asokore-Dabiasem amphibian sounds reimagined by Christi Denton.
This recording, captured in the South Gate’s barbican during the morning traffic peak, hums with ...
Recorded by Cities and Memory, August 2024.
Identified frog species: Phrynobatrachus latifrons (Puddle Frogs) vocalising in granular textures. In the background are domestic fowls, birds, subtle swarm of unknown insects, human activity and low frequency engines.
Asokore-Dabiasem is a new addition to areas in and around Koforidua where wetlands have been highly ...
Recorded by Xiaoya Zhao.
As the music unfolds, it fills the space with transcendent quality, ...
The park was filled with quaker parrots, pigeons, and collared doves, all singing, flying, mating, fighting, and creating a strange but very satisfying symphony (especially from a field recorder's perspectiv...
"In particular, the resonances produced by the percussive instrument were extracted, thus creating long sound bands, onto which the distant dirge is grafted. The intent was to create an internal acoustic vision imagined from the deceased's...
Recorded by Stewart Hoyle.
Recorded in Indonesia by Farhan Boy.
Recorded in Vietnam by Nhat Vuong Nguyen Trinh.
"When I saw the option to work with a piece of Portland audio for this project, something resonated, connecting me to the idea of distance between then and now in my own life, and that of my bandmates. That sense of how things move forward, inevitably, but that an aspect can also rema...
In the recording, you can hear the sound of people chatting and laughing, (I swear I hear someone happily say "Jamiroquai!" towards the end), heels cla...
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