Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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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 www.citiesandmemory.com

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory
Arts
6012 episodes / 2.05M listens
Shortwave radio recordings
  1. Radio contact between W2PVF and KC4AAC of Palmer Station, Antarctica
  2. Bollettino del mare (weather report)
  3. Radio Havana
  4. Radio Trans Mundial - final broadcast
Restaurants, bars and cafes
  1. Techno music made from crockery and baristas
  2. Milan's nightlife - hip hop reimagining
  3. The oldest bar in New York City
  4. At a European railway bar
Mountains
  1. Voce pura
  2. Mountain stream in the Dolomites
  3. Wildlife at dawn, Nantou mountains
  4. Before 6am
The Orange Garden
  1. The orange garden
  2. Always falling
  3. The orange tree, the fountain and a long-forgotten love
  4. Il Giardino degli Aranci tutto il giorno
Inferno project - selected highlights
  1. The Lost Poet
  2. Shining one
  3. The Love Which Moves The Sun & Other Stars
  4. A Slow Hot Kiss of Wind
Remixing the global lockdown
  1. Waking up, staying up
  2. The city sings with electricity
  3. Bagley Wood lockdown (Andy Lyon reimagining)
  4. Still Nowruz
#StayHomeSounds
  1. Dawn rises above a city of the future
  2. Plaza Cascorro during lockdown
  3. Open windows
  4. When the traffic disappears, Adelaide
Future Cities
  1. Inside Kurama-dera Temple, Kyoto
  2. As the crow rituals
  3. Serbian protest
  4. Breaking foundations
Space is the Place - reimagined sounds
  1. Huygens
  2. We have lift-off - From Sputnik to launch
  3. Star Gazer ISS
  4. Blue Dot
Space is the Place - original recordings
  1. One small step
  2. The Eagle has landed
  3. Sputnik beep
  4. Apollo 13 - Houston we've had a problem
Cities and Memory - city sound guides
  1. Bells on the rooftops of Venice, Christmas Eve
  2. Call to prayer at 4.45am, Essaouira
  3. Flamenco in La Carboneria, Seville
  4. Big Ben rings for the final time in four years
Cities and Memory live
  1. Europa Endlos
  2. The cycle of days
  3. "Crosswise I strain me like a Syrian bow"
  4. There where the waves shatter
Space is the Place
  1. Star Gazer ISS
  2. Huygens
  3. The Electromagnetic Chorus
  4. SLS rocket test fire
Natural phenomena
  1. Cliff Geyser, Yellowstone
  2. Stochastic Flows
  3. Geyser Hill, Yellowstone
  4. Water Souls
Sounding Nature
  1. An echo of a lost place
  2. The thing and the place itself
  3. A sunset for the sheep
  4. Horses at a mountain stream
Forests
  1. About a bird
  2. Forest wind and birds, Vermont
  3. The family album
  4. A hot afternoon in the forest
Wind
  1. Stare winding
  2. An iron staircase in the wind
  3. Movement (Dappled mix)
  4. The sound of prayer flags by Qinghai Lake
Insects
  1. Phan Rang insect call by the ocean
  2. An insect from Vietnam, the ocean and rain
  3. Love to lose you with me
  4. Melodies and critters, Koforidua, Ghana
Amphibians and reptiles
  1. The performance
  2. Rain showers and an amphibian performance
  3. Soundscape with small frogs and roosters
  4. Theme to insects, amphibians and voices by a roadside
Animals
  1. Far fields
  2. The curious cows of Valle Pramper
  3. Guanacaste dawn
  4. Reserva Conchal: howlers at dawn