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 ...
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"The original recording had so much rich sonic qualities to it, so much that I decided to attempt to keep the original persisting throughout the reimagining as much as possible. "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 thro…
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Tenmabashi subway station - bird chirping
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"Silence is often more than just quiet. In this Sounds of Silence module, I attempt to capture the silence within the noise – those moments of silence that are in constant battle with the noisy world, embarking on their own adventures. "The recording location for 'Tenmabashi Subway Station - Bird Chirping' is from Tenmabashi Subway Station in Tokyo…
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Amphitrite Point Lighthouse in Ucluelet BC on a foggy evening. You can hear the fog horn every 20 seconds. You can also hear a whistle buoy for starboard aid and a bell buoy for port aid. And of course the pacific ocean. Recorded by Timo Gormanns.Por Cities and Memory
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The Pacific fog ballad of Ucluelet lighthouse
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"I wanted to convey the physicality of fog, how it defuses light, blocks and confuses the senses and becomes a thing, a blanket over the senses. Sound travels differently and light is refracted. This is reflected in the original long form field recording with the one constant of the fog horn. "I sampled the ambience of the original track and built …
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New York City's Soho flea market, August 1993. Recorded by Ingrid Schulz.Por Cities and Memory
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"Delay and reverb blips and bits. Background conversation with Billy Joel kicking in on the radio part way through led me to use additional samples of 'Just the way you are'. Cleaner mix overlaying the existing field recording. Some of the drum beats were pulled from the recording and then overlayed with stretched samples. Wanted to bounce the soun…
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A not so quiet night in the Tuscan countryside, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Italy. Recorded by Dan Rosato.Por Cities and Memory
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Creaking escalator in an empty shopping centre early on New Year's Day 2024, with the reverb from a pronounced squeak echoing across a large distance in a space usually filled by people. A small sound that's usually more or less inaudible taking centre stage. Recorded by Cities and Memory.Por Cities and Memory
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The loneliness of the long distance runner
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"I encoded the escalators as midi and then fed the results into my DAW (Bitwig) before adding effects etc. 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 rei…
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Reimagined sounds of foxes at night in Tuscany - a not-so-quiet night. By Dan Rosato.Por Cities and Memory
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A peaceful, crisp December morning in the famous Jardin de Luxembourg in Paris - passers-by chat next to the ornamental lake, while ducks quack and we can hear the bells gently chiming midday. Recorded by Cities and Memory.Por Cities and Memory
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Desire paths are small, unplanned trails created by human and animal traffic, often to create convenient shortcuts. The field recording from the Jardin de Luxembourg inspired me by all the shared pathways expressed in a short amount of time - people moving, talking, laughing, and crying, birds and other animals, bells, bicycles, and everything else…
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"This composition was mostly written at 30,000 feet aboard a long-haul international flight, as I attempted to reconnect with the sounds of nature in an extremely unnatural environment. The recording is from very close to where I live, so in a sense I was also reconnecting with home with that slight edge of melancholy that sometimes comes with trav…
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The beautiful, complex and multifaceted calls of the song thrush, recorded in May 2024 in a patch of woods in central Oxford, UK. Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti. IMAGE: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsPor Cities and Memory
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"For two months in 2023, I lived in Varanasi, India. Each morning I would be awakened by the sound of chanting and dogs barking - not all that different from the field recording I used in this work. As with many of my compositional ambient pieces, I use a large chord with what might be called "fuzzy" canons to envelop the Bosnian morning, the way a…
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"The composition is made up of samples cut from the original field recordings. These samples were: commentator's voice, other voices, clapping etc. These samples have been mangled, chopped and diced and served with synths, white noise and drum machines." Padova velodrome reimagined by Simon Woods.Por Cities and Memory
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Cycling competition at the Padova Velodrome
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A local cycling competition taking place at the city centre velodrome in Padova, Italy. We can hear commentary about the racers and the race, and cyclists whizzing past us periodically. Since this recording was made in August 2023, the velodrome has now permanently closed, making this sound recording a piece of the city's history. Recorded by Citie…
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Trading in Budapest's Central Market Hall
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A walkthrough of the famous Central Market Hall in central Budapest, with various market traders and customers doing their morning shopping. Recorded by Cities and Memory.Por Cities and Memory
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"Voice of Strangers has been reimagined from the recording of a Budapest marketplace, Hungary. The central focal point of this work is the selected portions of that marketplace sound manipulated with several effects like reverb, delay etc. To me it appears like sound of some spirits around the listener representing some old time that doesn't exists…
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A very close-up recording of traffic whizzing past on a classic Roman tiled section of road, making a very particular sound, while typically Italian pedestrian crossings beep periodically above us. Recorded by Cities and Memory.Por Cities and Memory
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"A man tries to cross a road choked with traffic--cars, trucks, scooters. The stream of traffic ignores the pedestrian crossing signals as the man gets more and more anxious. Eventually he gets ready to make his move, thanks to a short meditation, only to find that he has forgotten that it's a train crossing as well." Traffic noise in Rome reimagin…
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Live music in the Drinkery bar on Bourbon Street, New Orleans. Recorded by Alex Clifford. IMAGE: MusikAnimal, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsPor Cities and Memory
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"It's spring, humidity and temps. are high. Off in the Bayou, through the Spanish moss. The gators are restless. "Bass, sax, and drone sounds are from the original recording. Swamp and birds are of my own design using Ambigen and creaking pier sounds." Drinkery in New Orleans reimagined by Joel Graham. IMAGE: MusikAnimal, CC BY-SA 4.0
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"The constant tapping of heavy rain is accented by deep thunder. The rain so heavy it caused floods. You can still hear people driving in this weather. The pictures were taken shortly after the rain." Recorded in Hanoi, Vietnam by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe.Por Cities and Memory
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"I combined the storm in Hanoi with the output of some iOS music apps (Rings FX, Other Desert Cities, PaulXStretch, Relic Flow, Rymdigare and BounceBud to imagine a storm heard both inside and out." Vietnamese rainstorm reimagined by Roland Pyle.Por Cities and Memory
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"The composition is made up of samples cut from the original field recordings. These samples were: Voices, gears, doors, announcements etc. These samples have been mangled in sequencers, wavesynths and any other gear they could be put in. Synths were added to taste." Paris metro line 3 reimagined by Simon Woods.…
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On the Paris metro, travelling from Pere Lachaise to Parmentier - train noises, platforms, doors opening and closing and announcements in French. Recorded by Cities and Memory.Por Cities and Memory
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Industrial port noises and drones heard at a distance next to The Great Light, with gentle wave sounds and the occasional seagull. An oppressive, industrial soundscape. Recorded by Cities and Memory.Por Cities and Memory
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"The original recording had a nice drone to it which I heightened with resonators. There was also some wind booms which I isolated and looped. I then mixed this down and did some live looping with it, adding dubby delays and reverbs too." Belfast port soundscape reimagined by Wave Debb.Por Cities and Memory
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"I wanted to capture the rolling rhythm of a water in the original field recording so I've used a series of pads and synth sounds to create that feeling. I also used a repeating piano melody to mimic the sounds of the water going over rocks etc. I tweaked the original recording to bring up the bird song." Vermont bird soundscape reimagined by Richa…
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In this scene in Berkshire, Vermont, a small babbling stream takes center stage as a variety of birds can be heard singing both near and far. Recorded by Chris Ruprecht.Por Cities and Memory
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"Inside the church of San Stae, the right wall contains altars with works by Niccolò Bambini, Giuseppe Camerata, and Antonio Balestra. The three chapels on the left house works by Giuseppe Torretto, Pietro Baratta, Francesco Migliori, and Jacopo Amigoni. "There are seven distinct synth sounds within the piece - each representing a different artist …
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The iconic sounds of the Grand Canal in Venice, as heard from outside the Chiesa di San Stae. The low thrum of vaporetto taxis and smaller boats, the lapping of water on the sides of the canal, the conversations of locals zipping up past us on boats, all on a warm, sultry summer afternoon. Reimagined by Cities and Memory.…
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"A walk through the Spice Market and the surrounding area in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. It's 11 a.m. on September 7, 2019." Recorded by Azadeh Nilchiani.Por Cities and Memory
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"My track “Pointe-à-Pitre” is based on a field recording from a spice Market in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. I was drawn to the field recording because it captures the magical atmosphere of the city. I can imagine being taken away by the smell of the spices, fruits and vegetables at the market on this Caribbean paradise. "It is this feeling that I h…
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"Reimagined the streets of Montmartre as haunted from the ghosts of the past." Montmartre street recording reimagined by VVHΛLTHISИEY.Por Cities and Memory
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"My recollection of this field recording was standing in Campo San Giacomo di Rialto at 4pm, after an entire day of recording the sounds of Venice - my favourite urban space in the world for sound recording. The sun was warm and mellow, and the campo was unusually quiet and empty considering its proximity to the Rialto Bridge, one of Venice's most …
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A walkthrough across Venice's iconic Rialto Bridge, through the market at the bottom of the bridge, and out into Campo San Giacomo di Rialto. In this quiet square just away from the hustle and bustle of one of Venice's most popular tourist spots, all we can hear is the gentle trickle of a water fountain, and the bells chiming for 4pm. An unusually …
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"The sound of the migrating terns is replaced by violins playing a the same rhythm as a short loop of the field recording. This pattern is faded in and out with other orchestral string instruments playing similar tern patterns." Migrating terns reimagined by Simon Woods.Por Cities and Memory
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Tern colony at Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey. Sandwich, Common and Arctic tern migrate from Africa or as far as the Antarctic for the Artic tern every spring to breed there and then head back each autumn hopefully with young terns following them. Recorded by Phil Cunliffe.Por Cities and Memory
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"I listened and listened to the beautiful recording and played along the best I could on my acoustic guitar to form an idea. I used the recording complete in places and cut up and sampled in others , to creat a kind of vocal line to the piece. "To step outside of times relentless flow is a journey , a holiday if you like. A trip away from the every…
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"In my mind, a pier is almost always a busy place, people are coming or going and that alone brings excitement. For those who in fact are on the pier to embark on a voyage it is perhaps even more exciting. Remember the feeling as a child going on your first travel by boat, being in the moment just before embarking, feel the tremble of joy, but also…
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"A period of time a few minutes long fifty-eight years wide." "This recording gave such a strong sense of a moment in time held still - the way in which the space of a minute in the middle of the night can take on the same qualities as an hour during daylight. "The nighttime rainfall sits as a bed throughout the track, which overall is structured i…
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"I loved how the field recording provided a really nice atmospheric layer to the song. The interesting thing is that the recording has different moments as in one part you hear the sounds of the waves and in another, human voices combined with other elements that inhabit the place. "This song talks about the wish of feeling nature, of experimenting…
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"I used the field recording unedited and throughout the duration of my piece. It inspired me to put myself in the outdoors, listen to the sounds of nature in the recording and transfer how this made me feel into music: peaceful and hopeful, and then adventurous. I started with a piano solo and build instrumentation around it. I also drew inspiratio…
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"A sleepy harbour at Pepperskär on the island of Järsö, 12km south of Mariehamn, Åland's capital. It's just after 7am on a Sunday. The roe deer on the road vanish into the woods as I arrive, the gulls haven't yet flown in from the rocky havens in the bay. "A slight breeze stirs the tide to softly lap the the wood-clad harbour walls and the hulls of…
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"The field recording from the martial arts studio in Thailand is over 20 minutes long, so I initially selected several parts that appealed to me because of their athletic energy, community spirit and sweat. "I chose sound sections that reflect the general training atmosphere in the room and, of course, the sports activities with rhythmic sequences.…
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"People from across Chiang Mai and the globe training in a Muay Thai gym." Recorded in Chiang Mai, Thailand by Alex Boyesen. Part of the Sound of Adventure project in partnership with Exodus Travels. To learn more and explore the full collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/adventure.Por Cities and Memory
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"A dense and captivating dawn chorus of Vietnamese wildlife in Huyện Đà Bắc, Hòa Bình, Vietnam. The waking of animals, birds, insects and people on the edge of a lake in the jungle at around 5am." Recorded in Vietnam by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe. Part of the Sound of Adventure project in partnership with Exodus Travels. To learn more and explore the ful…
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"Quite coincidentally, the track "CO-PI-I" was made on the go during my recent travels in late 2023. I believe it happened for a good reason since it serves the purpose of the "Sound of Adventure" project. "Over the years I made an interesting observation. Before venturing into new territory, two things happen: first - we suddenly are opened to fan…
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