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 congregation are business men. Tourists pour money into the offering box drawing an omikuji. The sound of the money clinking is juxtaposed with the Buddhist priests chanting and ends with a discussion of the tourists visting and trying to understa...
"I therefore sliced the recording, al...
"The original soundscape is highlighted throughout with frequency filtering only, and I created sparse added textures of echoing single lines of piano and nebulous vocals: alone, yet n...
Recorded on Coral Beach on the Isle of Skye by Cities and Memory, April 2025.
The sound captures both the muffled sounds of museum-goers on one side, and the passage of air and the sounds from Berlin outside on t...
"The field recording inspired this notion of a paid session pianist sitting amongst the chaos and noise of a grand museum, play...
Recorded on the Isle of Skye by Cities and Memory, April 2025.
Recorded by Digimonk.
IMAGE: Sigismund von Dobschütz, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
"The original fi...
Lanzhou City soundscape reimagined by Yol.
IMAGE: Sigismund von Dobschütz, ...
"I paired these...
"I knew I wanted to use an acoustic guitar as a key driving element for the feel...
Recorded by Cities and Memory, July 2025.
"It means 'Ghost Stations' in German. For me, the memories of those train stations are like ghosts that haunt me during melancholic and nostalgic hours; this is ...
Recorded in Berlin by Cities and Memory, September 2025.
"I built and recorded a number of different passages settling on a drifting, arpeggiated loop which allowed the field recording to move in and out of focus. Layered and dist...
The moving fo...
Boros Collection sound installation in Berlin reimagined by the figurehead.
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