Oboe Reverie At Steglitz Banhof
Recorded from a cafe in the station of Steglitz, there is a busker playing the oboe in the sound of traffic, birds, wheely luggage - a reverie in the chaos. Recorded by Clelia Ciardulli. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
8m Mar 04, 2020
8m
Traffic, policeman's whistle, pedestrians at the Northwest corner of Kandy Lake
Kandy Road curves around the Northwest corner of Kandy Lake in a bustle of car, bus, truck, moped and pedestrian traffic. Amid the din, a policeman and his whistle makes a valiant effort to maintain order at the corner. Recorded by Michael N. Meyer. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
9m Mar 04, 2020
9m
Let's go to the farmers' market
Soundscape from a typical farmers' market in Limassol, Cyprus. Recorded by Marcel Gnauk. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
3m Mar 04, 2020
3m
Natural suffering
Essen city soundscape reimagined by Jamie Frye. "This piece was inspired by a musical tone within the original field recording. The natural xylophone in this extreme urban and brutalistic environment had a charm that which was the only thing that mimicked nature in this dystopian landscape.  "The original recording has no natural sounds which are audible, highlighting the fact we are driving ou...
3m Mar 03, 2020
3m
The energy company xylophone
Cars (Autobahn) & trains (main station) accompany waving flags and clicking traffic lights, forming a natural xylophone. Here in front of the energy companies, the sound is still from the past decade. Recorded in Essen, Germany by Nils Mosh.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
6m Mar 03, 2020
6m
Kota Masa Depan
AS Cittadella ultras reimagined by Fahmi Mursyid. "I feel on the future city has more quiet and chaos at the same time. People know how to reduce or control the noise from everything with new technology. I composed this piece to reflect this idea." Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
5m Mar 03, 2020
5m
Ultras on a boat
The away fans of AS Cittadella are travelling to a local derby match at rivals Venezia - being in Venice, we have to take a boat to this unique island stadium.  During the boat ride, as well as the vaporetto engines, we are treated to a display of all their most popular songs as the fans sing out of the boat towards the bemused citizens of Venice on the banks opposite.  Recorded by Cities and M...
7m Mar 03, 2020
7m
Highway ghosts
Vietnam steelworking reimagined by Chris Ray (Enisle). "I imagined the construction sounds left over after work had completed. Late night ghostly echoes of the toil and graft." Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
3m Mar 03, 2020
3m
Shallow Waters
Valparaiso ascensores reimagined by Iván Aguayo.  "Last year I went to Valparaiso and while it's lively in some parts, the truth is there are a lot of worn out buildings in the surroundings.  "Somehow the sound of the elevators, slow and heavy, reflects the state of the older structures, as it started to decay itself along with the city.  "This influenced my composition, which is languid, heavy...
5m Mar 03, 2020
5m
TOKYOYKOT
A Tokyo train ride reimagined by Leon Muraglia. "A picture of how headphone tech transforms chaos into gleaming, utopian space." Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
1m Mar 03, 2020
1m
Early morning on the Paris metro
This is a recording of Metro Line 14 in Paris from Olympiades to Saint-Lazare Station. The whole ride takes less than 15 minutes and I kept some ambient sounds from the stations before and after; the recording was made before 8.00 am between Christmas and New Year's Eve, so  there was hardly anyone on the train. Recorded by Jeremy Simoncello.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more a...
18m Mar 03, 2020
18m
Steel workers in Vietnam
Steel work = lots of noise! Here's a recording by Marcel Gnauk of steelworking taking place on the streets of Da Nang, Vietnam.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
3m Mar 03, 2020
3m
Shizuoka - life in the fast lane
Sounds from inside an incredibly busy Japanese train station - announcements, crowds and a wonderful spread of sounds across the stereo field.  Recorded by Marcel Gnauk.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
1m Mar 03, 2020
1m
All aboard the Valparaiso ascensores
The ascensores in Valparaiso, Chile are famous mechanical lifts, more than a hundred years old, that are both an extremely practical way to get up the huge hills that dominate the city and a tourist attraction that shows off a distinctly old-school way of getting around. This recording shows off their distinctive clattering sounds, which could only come from this part of the world! UNESCO lis...
2m Mar 03, 2020
2m
Soundscape of Murcia
This is a recording of a famous street in Murcia, Spain - we can hear traffic, people walking and talking around, passing by, we can also hear kids from a school nearby. Recorded by Javier Perez.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
12m Mar 02, 2020
12m
Whistle In Murcia
Murcia soundscape reimagined by Luca Guglielmetti. "I imagined the piece as a mental composition of a woman walking in the street. The track opens with the sound of her steps and closes with them.  "This sound is the hook to reality, the rest is in the woman's head. I tried to give the idea of ​​a mental scenario that is created and disintegrated within a few minutes, which is what happens to m...
3m Mar 02, 2020
3m
Ridley flocks
Ridley Road market reimagined by Michael Lilley. "I segmented the original recording and fed it into Endlesss (endlesss.fm) on my iPad before adding the tonally shifting underlying pads. I really liked the gulls midway through the original recording, so I used Koala (another iPad app) to add a spattering of the gull samples throughout the track. I also thickened the underlying pads using Koala ...
8m Mar 02, 2020
8m
Ridley Road market, Dalston
A stroll through London's Ridley Road,  a unique community intersection of Afro-Caribbean, Asian and European cultures. In the heart of the gentrifying Dalston -  it may not exist for much longer in its current form.  Recorded by Marg Laing.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
4m Mar 02, 2020
4m
Turning Points
"The Yaowarat road in Bangkok is one of the busiest streets in the world, where goods and people come together in hectic daily activity. "Traffic noise, pollution and frenzy affect our bodies and minds in a negative way by changing our perception of reality." Yaowarat Road reimagined by Strepitvsitvs.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-c...
6m Mar 02, 2020
6m
Exploring China Town
Exploring the sounds of the China Town district in Bangkok - this is the main artery road of the China Town district, the main centre for trading by the Chinese community (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Overseas_Chinese) since they moved from their old site in Bangkok some 200 years ago to make way for the construction of Wat Phra Kaew (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wat_Phra_Kaew) , the Grand Palace...
7m Mar 02, 2020
7m
Underground Karaoke Stars of Broadway
Ellen's Stardust Diner reimagined by Adriene Lilly. "The recording felt like a space underground and I imagined walking through concrete halls to find it.   "I wanted to play with that sensation, like wandering down a corridor and pressing your ear to the door of every room only to find the sounds in side are all nearly the same." Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www...
2m Mar 02, 2020
2m
The next generation of Broadway stars
Ellen's Stardust Diner is unique to Manhattan - an old-style diner where the waiting staff are all aspiring Broadway singing stars. You're serenaded by a constant stream of songs from musicals as you eat - and make no mistake, the waiting staff here can certainly belt out a tune! Here are a couple of tunes, including the classic "Unchained Melody". Recorded by Cities and Memory, while enjoying ...
20m Mar 02, 2020
20m
The Cosmic Gondolier
Venetian buskers and Giudecca canal reimagined by Mark Taylor. "What if Venice and all its wonderful canals were lifted off the earth’s surface and became a floating metropolis in outer space?  "In terms of the sound world they create, I’ve always found journeys on water to be discrete and utterly disconnected from their immediate surroundings, so I’ve tried to create a more cosmic, outer space...
5m Mar 01, 2020
5m
Boats and buskers in Venice
Venice is the spiritual home of Cities and Memory, and one of our favourite places to record - the soundscapes are so pure and traffic-free, and Venice sounds like nowhere else.  Here we're facing out towards the Giudecca, and tuning in to the sounds of passing boats and an accordion busker off to our left. Recorded by Cities and Memory. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at http...
5m Mar 01, 2020
5m
Bell dream
Bells in the Padova botanic gardens reimagined by Michelle Breslin/Lostworldsounds. "The Bells drew me in and the waterfall followed. A city stopped in time." Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
4m Mar 01, 2020
4m
Bells and waterfall in Padova
Walking through the botanic gardens of Padova, we walk beneath a constructed waterfall at the same time as cathedral bells ring beneath us - an unusual confluence of water and bell sounds. Recorded by Cities and Memory. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
2m Mar 01, 2020
2m
Futility
Sounds of Krakow rainfall reimagined by O. Johnson. "The original field recording I chose was sounds of rainfall in the urban Krakow by Michael Gatonska.  "Many of my tracks are based on memories and things I see and a memory came to mind when listening to the rainfall. It reminded me of the sounds made by several moths caught in an ornamental lamp shade.  "Their wings were hitting the side of ...
4m Feb 28, 2020
4m
Sounds of rainfall in the Krakow cityscape
Soundscape of early morning medium-to-light rainfall on a small street (ul. Syrokomli) in Krakow, Poland. Rainfall sounds were amplified by sectioned glass and metal seat below window pane. Recorded by Michael Gatonska. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
8m Feb 28, 2020
8m
A Japanese journey
Mount Kurama train line reimagined by Nick St. George. "The year has closed  While still I wear my sandals  And my pilgrim's hat  - Bashō (trans. Basil Hall Chamberlain)  "The 17th century Japanese poet, Bashō, spent much of his time travelling. Presented with a recording of a Japanese train journey, an audio journey seemed an obvious structure.  "So the piece takes us through two contrasting s...
8m Feb 28, 2020
8m
Aboard the train to Mount Kurama
Heading north on the train to Mount Kurama - a stunning view of trees turning red in the autumn, and the peaceful suburbs of Kyoto, far from the bustle of the city.  A tranquil, scenic train journey - what is life like in the tranquil outskirts of Kyoto close to the mountains? Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/fut...
4m Feb 28, 2020
4m
Urban nature walk
Kyoto railway station walkway reimagined by David Leith.  "When I first listened to the field recording I kept being reminded of the sounds of nature, especially birds being interwoven within the ambient urban soundscape.  "The reimagined space then became a walk through different urban spaces. The droning part soundscape was derived from a MIDI translation of the pitches from the original reco...
10m Feb 27, 2020
10m
Trilling Kyoto walkway
Inside Kyoto's impressive train station, we hear the end of an escalator trilling every time someone exits it, while in the meantime airport announcements punctuate the air and we hear the general bustle of a typical major station. Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
2m Feb 27, 2020
2m
Daily market life in Uganda
Ambience recording at the Kitoro daily market in Entebbe, Uganda - recorded by Colin Hunter.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
3m Feb 27, 2020
3m
Lost in Entebbe
Entebbe market reimagined by Ryan Little. "I wanted my piece to reflect the anonymity one can face in a city. Especially coming from smaller rural towns, moving to a city of 55,000 or more is a daunting thing and it's easy to get lost in it all.  "My piece seeks to explore that feeling while trying to also capture the rapid and languid pace cities fluctuate between." Part of the Future Cities p...
8m Feb 27, 2020
8m
Doorway effect
Piece created in response to a photography, as part of the Sound Photography project, by David de la Haye. For more information about the project, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-photography "The longer I stare at this door, the more I beg for someone to open it. Using the main materials present in the photograph as a starting point (wood, arid grass and the background hum of power line...
7m Feb 26, 2020
7m
Final destination - Costa Rica
Liberia airport, Costa Rica reimagined by Simon Woods.  "The airport for Liberia, in Costa Rica, is a long way out of the city. I used some of the field recording to make distant aircraft and insect sounds. This is punctuated by the announcement of “Final Destination”.   "The sound of happy holiday makers arriving is represented by the ‘flute / guitar tune.’" Part of the Future Cities project -...
3m Feb 25, 2020
3m
Airport announcements, Costa Rica
The hustle and bustle of an airport in Costa Rica, with various tannoy announcements for the passengers. Recorded by Marcel Gnauk.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
1m Feb 25, 2020
1m
Blumlein Blues
"You've heard a million recordings of trains but this one's very specific. In March 2018 I got a pair of Sennheiser Ambeo headphones to do rudimentary binaural recording.  "I thought why not make a pilgrimage to the old EMI factory at Hayes in West London -- now the "Old Vinyl Factory" lofts, a £250 million redevelopment with 650 homes and apartments -- where Alan Blumlein once invented modern ...
2m Feb 25, 2020
2m
Ghost Station
Old Vinyl Factory recording reimagined by Primitive Acoustics.  "This composition was inspired by Neil Verma’s binaural recording of passing trains in West London. His recording was made in the same Hayes location that Alan Blumlein invented modern stereo recording in 1931.   "This piece reflects on sounds passing as a life metaphor for the impermanence of all things and their dissipation into ...
5m Feb 25, 2020
5m
Want a boat ride?
At Muelle Prat in Valparaiso, competing teams of boat trip workers hawk for business, calling out for tourists to join a boat trip around the harbour. The rival teams are really competitive, and occasionally it spills over into a full-blown argument. Recorded by Cities and Memory.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
3m Feb 25, 2020
3m
Deep dive into the Chilean voices from beyond the grave
Chilean boat salesmen reimagined by Virgile Abela. "I've integrated the original sound into an audio program developed on Max / MSP made for the Pendule Acoustique project: a sound and generative installation combining acoustics and gravity.  "The program acts as a temporal and granular filter on the sound and governs its vitality, generating an imaginary landscape, as if the voices come from a...
7m Feb 25, 2020
7m
Rota on Fire
"Soft, slightly ominous tones play softly over sounds of the city treated through reverb and tape saturation.   "There was a spring type sound that became the initial loop but I liked the sound of the whole thing so much I kept the entire recording basically intact.  Lots of different sounds that drift in and out of focus." San Lorenzo, Rome reimagined by Whettman Chelmets. Part of the Future C...
6m Feb 24, 2020
6m
San Lorenzo, Rome
Recorded by Emiliano Venanzini. "San Lorenzo: a district built near the end of 19th century, originally inhabited by factory workers, rail workers and artisans. Lying beside one of the biggest university of Rome, La Sapienza, the district's population has been gradually replaced by students coming from all over Italy. The district has changed a lot: pubs, clubs and street food have replaced smi...
6m Feb 24, 2020
6m
For those of you alone in a world of sound
Shinkansen train arrival reimagined by Audio Obscura. "The Sound of the shinkansen pulling into a station and railway station announcements gave me a sense of movement, a feeling of either starting or ending a journey.   "Therefore I wanted my piece to feel like it had motion, so I added rhythmic beats and synths which I felt had a sense of motion. A sense of journey can also suggest departure ...
5m Feb 24, 2020
5m
Here comes the bullet train!
The Shinkansen bullet train arrives into Tokyo station - we can hear the throb of the stationary train's engines, plus announcements and the distinctive, specific melody that's used to signify the Shinkansen's arrival.  Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti.  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
4m Feb 24, 2020
4m
I jumped aboard the train and everything changed
Sadovaya subway reimagined by Jodi Crisp.  "We will embark on strange journeys past the rising seas and the crowds and the robot seagulls, and will end up somewhere unexpected."  Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
4m Feb 24, 2020
4m
Sadovaya subway, St. Petersburg
"I made a recording at  Sadovaya Subway station January 17 around 6 pm, standing in the middle of the platform. Sounds of the trains and passersby in the closed space 71 m deep under the ground." Recorded by Masha Sha. Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
8m Feb 24, 2020
8m
Bremen Hole revisited
The strange "Bremen hole", which emits animal noises when coins are dropped into it, reimagined by Jukka-Pekka Piimies. "The piece invites us to reflect on our relationship with our fellow animals.  "It revisits "The Town Musicians of Bremen", a fairy tale retold by the Brothers Grimm, where a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster team up to ward off a band of robbers. "The composition consists of...
1m Feb 24, 2020
1m
The power station of art
Recording in the Shanghai Power Station of Art by Simon James.  "I was lucky to get a tour when the space was closed to the public, which offered a unique recording opportunity. I sat in the midst of Christian Boltanski’s “Storage Memory” exhibition, recording the space.  "At first there is just the whine of power in the background, while occasional voices of staff come and go.  "Later, a mecha...
19m Feb 24, 2020
19m
Uncertain progress
Shanghai Power Station of Art reimagined by Ray Diode.  "This piece ruminates on the political position of China in the world. By drawing on the motif of 'power'  from the field recording of a Shanghai power station, I wrote a traditional sounding rhythm that occurs randomly with a variety of speeds.  "To me, this is reflective of the country's uncertainty in the current socio-political climate...
6m Feb 24, 2020
6m