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
6002 episodes / 2.04M listens
They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
  1. They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
  2. Missme
  3. Roots
Whoa Buck
  1. Whoa Buck
  2. Woah Fuck
  3. If The Rest Was Dead
  4. Whoa Buck (Marco Alessi version)
Eighteen Hammers
  1. Eighteen Hammers
  2. 18,000 Hammers
  3. Eighteen Hammers (Lianray Pienaar version)
Prison Songs
  1. 18,000 Hammers
  2. Eighteen Hammers (Lianray Pienaar version)
  3. Eighteen Hammers
  4. Woah Fuck
Street sounds
  1. Dosa!
  2. Inside the kitchen, New Delhi
  3. Roman roads
  4. Campo San Barnaba - all in
Dada Sounds
  1. Paris Dadaphone
  2. Rue Tristan Tzara, Paris
  3. At the home of Dada
  4. Outside the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
Subterranean sounds
  1. Alicanta
  2. Metro singer, Lisbon
  3. Modal calve
  4. Nam Lod cave, Thailand
Memoryphones
  1. Churches and temples - Memoryphones installation
  2. Crowds and protests - Memoryphones installation
  3. Museums and libraries - Memoryphones installation
  4. Airports and stations - Memoryphones installation
Utopia
  1. Utopia A1: Sunset
  2. Utopia A1: The Golden Ratio
  3. Utopia A2: Debussy's cathedral
  4. Utopia A2: New Zealand, Laos, Cambodia, London
Elsewhere Journal
  1. Hamburg daydream by Jase Warner
  2. Techno music made from crockery and baristas
  3. When I wasn't present...
  4. British Museum clock room - as imagined by Jan Svankmajer
Sound Waves
  1. Stream at Olbersdorf, Germany
  2. Water molecules being manipulated by laser beams
  3. Fear of water
  4. A Quiet Stream (reimagination)
Karhide's reimagined Cities and Memory sounds
  1. Seville's birds of paradise
  2. Birdsong in the Alcazar gardens
  3. Train techno - a remix of Birmingham New Street
  4. Birmingham New Street - platform sounds
Quiet Street - sounds from the installation
  1. Bath saxophone busker - installation mix
  2. Bath pump room - installation mix
  3. Bath Spa station - installation mix
  4. Bath Abbey organ - installation mix
How to reimagine a sound
  1. Techno music made from crockery and baristas
  2. The Cardiff knights vs. Henry V
  3. British Museum clock room - as imagined by Jan Svankmajer
  4. Hamburg daydream by Jase Warner
Quiet Street
  1. Pulteney weir, reimagined from under water
  2. The hip hop violinist
  3. Pulteney weir, Bath
  4. Violinist busking and crowd outside Bath Abbey
Natural sounds
  1. Birds nesting in the Dolomites
  2. Whipping up a storm in the mountains
  3. September at Chipmunk Creek, Yellowstone
  4. Park Piece
Cities and Memory: Oblique Strategies
  1. Pianos and crickets, Oxford and Florence
  2. The Wanderer and his Shadow
  3. Crickets in Florence
  4. Thailand insect chorus
Protest sounds
  1. As logical as an electric candle
  2. Anti-ISIS protest on the Reeperbahn, Hamburg
  3. Post Scratch Leg Stretch (Reclaim the Night)
  4. Reclaim the Night protest, London
Airport sounds
  1. An airport prelude
  2. Airport ambience, Los Angeles
  3. Birds singing behind the planes
  4. The chaos of an airport, Denver
Erinnerungen an eine Stadt - the field recordings
  1. Welcome to the Willkommhoeft
  2. Speeding autobahn traffic in Hamburg
  3. Welcome to the Kuala Lumpur Express
  4. The beach at Blankenese, Hamburg