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 6,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 120 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 http://www.citiesandmemory.com
Episodes
Recorded by Cities and Memory.
Recorded by Cities and Memory.
Pasticcer...
Padova beatboxer reimagined by Paul Latham.
Recorded by Uğur Aslan.
IMAGE: I-Chase-Planes, CC0, via Wikimed...
Recorded by Richard Watts.
Coogee Beach reimagined by Luca Gambirasio.
"I wanted to obscure the boundary between the original recording and the reimaged. This blurring of which is which plays into the idea of the recorded birdcalls played throughout Temmabashi Station - the birds that sang those songs aren't pre...
"The recording location for 'Tenmabashi Subway Station - Bird Chirping' is from Tenmabashi Subway Station in Tokyo, Japan. As I exited the train, I heard the echoing sounds of birds wi...
Recorded by Timo Gormanns.
"I sampled the ambience of the original track and built the sonic ebb and flow ( fog phasing) around this using it as an ancho...
Recorded by Ingrid Schulz.
I like the pun of the title "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"; appropriate both to the escalators running in the abandoned shopping centre and the fact that the squeaks sound like sneakers on the gym floor!"
Escalators in Oxford reimagined by Michael Lilley.
Recorded by Cities and Memory.
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