The streets of Sao Paulo
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Bird calls in Atlanta
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Boston street drummers
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Detroit book store
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Kansas City train
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
6s Dec 12, 2020
6s
Milwaukee Bucks basketball stadium
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
New York club bouncer
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Street corner at 2am, Washington DC
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
25s Dec 12, 2020
25s
Barcelona art gallery
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
2m Dec 12, 2020
2m
A storm in Berlin
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
24s Dec 12, 2020
24s
Hamburg clock chime
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
21s Dec 12, 2020
21s
Auckland street crossing
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
21s Dec 12, 2020
21s
Hare Krishna street dancers, Auckland
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Foals aftershow party, Byron Bay
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Sydney Botanical Gardens
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Opening birthday presents with my family, Oxford
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Bangkok archery range
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Bangkok street market
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Cicadas in Osaka
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Thailand to Japan, aeroplane safety announcement
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
5m Dec 12, 2020
5m
Train to St. Petersburg
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Moscow train station
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
On the streets of Kiev
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
Ukrainian art installation
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
1m Dec 12, 2020
1m
A final taxi ride
Part of the Cities and Memory x Kit Monteith: Audio-Cartographic Experiments project, January 2021. More information at www.citiesandmemory.com/audio-cartographic-experiments  This is the new work by Liverpool based artist Kit Monteith, presented on Cities and Memory as part of a new collaboration. Recorded entirely on an iPhone 6s, the album is designed to be listened to in a single sitting, ...
3m Dec 12, 2020
3m
Aldeburgh beach during lockdown
"This seascape is iconic, not least because of the link with Benjamin Britten, but also because of the nature of the pebble and shape of the beach. "I’ve made several attempts at recording this location in the past, but the lockdown enabled me to record without noise pollution. An unexpected bonus that night were three planets rising across the horizon and a comet!" Recorded 21st July 2020 02...
12m Dec 09, 2020
12m
Salt tears
Cannaregio boat and street works in Venice reimagined by Moana McReynolds. "I was inspired to research the neighborhood of my sample and was interested to learn that this was the site of the world’s first Jewish Ghetto. From this starting point I was led to the story of “Sarra Copia Sulam (d. 1641) , renowned for having written a Manifesto in which she upholds the principle of the immortality ...
2m Dec 03, 2020
2m
Pavement works in Cannaregio, Venice
Walk around Venice on a regular weekday and you'll hear the sounds of construction and repair, as you would in any other city.  Here in Cannaregio, at the northern end of Venice's main island, workmen are maintaining the canalside pavements, while boat after boat comes in and out of Venice from the lagoon to the north. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 03, 2020
5m
Old streetcar, Russia
"An old streetcar is slowly moving through streets of Ulyanovsk. Announcements from loudspeakers, rattling of broken doors, squeaks of brakes." Recorded by Alëna Korolëva.
3m Dec 03, 2020
3m
Tatra T3
Streetcar in Ulyanovsk reimagined by Alëna Korolëva. "I tried to give a voice to a dying streetcar, to hear music behind its rattling and squeaks. I used a notch filter and layered some tones, and this tune appeared a bit sad.  "A few old streetcars with the model Tatra T3 were made in between the 60s and 90s in Czechoslovakia and are still operating in Ulyanovsk, Russia. I grew up in this ci...
3m Dec 03, 2020
3m
Lenin's memorial facade deconstruction
Lenin's memorial facade deconstruction in Ulyanovks, Russia recorded by Alëna Korolëva. "Drilling and crushing, deconstruction of facade of Lenin's memorial."
7m Dec 03, 2020
7m
Facade
Lenin's memorial facade deconstruction in Ulyanovks, Russia reimagined by Alëna Korolëva. "I added some filters and mixed it with the sounds from a train sorting station."
2m Dec 03, 2020
2m
Spend the most, the best, the greatest
Hoarders created by Michelle Breslin (Sick Little Slinky). "Amplifying the love of money and things that was bearing down on us during this Fall of 2020." Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit http://www.citiesandmemory.com/inferno (https://audioboom.com/posts/7731138-phleget...
3m Dec 03, 2020
3m
Murano bells reimagined
Bells in Murano, Venice reimagined by Alex Hehir. "I loved the sonic mixture of the bells and the boats hitting each other. There are also some voices that make it into the final piece. Much of the sound design came from the original recording and was heavily processed using various techniques within Ableton."
5m Dec 01, 2020
5m
Midday in Murano
On the island of Murano in Venice, the bells ring out for midday across the canals. The sound is accompanied by the gentle sloshing of moored boats so characteristic of Venice, and we can hear a mother telling her daughter Nina that there is a boat with the same name as her. Recorded by Cities and Memory. 
1m Dec 01, 2020
1m
Light whispers
Cicadas in Arquà Petrarca reimagined by Andarctica.  "I really wanted to use the rhythmic pulsing of the crickets as a filter element, so it was a matter of first augmenting the sound to be more tonal and playable, then feeding it back through a vocoder with the original sample as the carrier. It led to some really nice phasing and harmonics, especially when put to tape."
4m Nov 24, 2020
4m
The background to summer
Mid-August in the incredibly beautiful little town of Arquà Petrarca in northern Italy, where the poet Petrarch spent most of his days. On this balmy, hot day, we listen to the cicadas in the trees chattering out their constant chorus, truly the background to summer. Recorded by Cities and Memory. 
2m Nov 24, 2020
2m
A day of lockdown in Bourges
Sounds from a typical day during lockdown in Bourges, France (ignoring remote working, of course): 0:0s: churches ring at 7:30 AM 2:00s: birds recorded from my balcony 4m:30s: bells ring the mass 8m:10s: playing fetch with my cat 9m:00s: going out (1 hour/ 1 km radius), rain over fallen leaves in Prés Fichaux garden. 13m:15s: night walk in the deserted streets of Bourges, Saint Etienne Cathedr...
20m Nov 24, 2020
20m
The ineluctable decline of Venice
Listen closely on a walk around some of the less-explored corners of Venice, and as well as the sounds you'd expect, like boats on the canals and the clacking of shoes on bridge crossings, you'll hear repair and construction, as an ancient city founded on the lagoon constantly regenerates and renews herself for the next generation. Here we're tuning into house repairs on Fondamenta San Felice, ...
4m Nov 20, 2020
4m
Construction
House repairs in Venice, Italy reimagined by Xqui. "I wanted to utilise all the background sounds by way of manipulation.  Everything here is taken from the original recording."
5m Nov 20, 2020
5m
Tranquility in Venice
In the Giardini della Biennale at the far end of Venice, it's a quiet moment on a sunny September weekday, with hardly anyone around, and the only sounds being the passing boat traffic at the far end of Venice's main island, and the faint sounds of birdsong from the gardens. Recorded by Cities and Memory. 
3m Nov 19, 2020
3m
Surface
Venice Biennale gardens reimagined by Eleni-Ira Panourgia. "The original recording of the passing boat inspired me to listen to the water surface. The recording reveals traces of human activity and machines in relation to the space, the flora and fauna of that specific location in Venice.  "The piece ‘Surface’ focuses on the soundscape’s microcosm. Drawing from the issue of the rising sea lev...
5m Nov 19, 2020
5m
The grand applause for the boat crane
On the island of San Pietro di Castello in Venice, on an otherwise tranquil and still weekday afternoon, we hear a boat being lowered into the water by one of Venice's typical boat cranes. The operator spins the boat around and zooms off - and at the close of the recording, the slosh of the wash against the boats opposite us almost sounds like a grand applause celebrating the achievements of th...
5m Nov 16, 2020
5m
Virtual Venice
Venetian boat crane reimagined by Andy Billington. "I wanted to work from a visual score so took all of the parts of the original recording and colour coded anything that sounded like drums or percussion. "Next I took any ambient voice sounds or water sounds and positioned these on top of the drum samples (now all layered). Slowly a sort of smeared jazz construction was built out. Adding DAW ...
8m Nov 16, 2020
8m
Cuarentena en Santafe
Bogota lockdown recording by Ricker Silva, November 2020. "During quarantine, a car passes by the neighbourhood, reminding us how we should take care of ourselves." Part of the StayHomeSounds project to map and reimagine the sounds of the Covid-19 lockdowns.
1m Nov 16, 2020
1m
Phlegethon
Phlegethon created by Nigel Firth (The May). "This piece starts with a fanfare of foghorns and waterlogged saxophones that then play from the forlorn banks of the river as seen from above. As we descend through the smoke and mist the true horror of the river of burning souls reveals itself, with the mangled screams of the victims and the beastly cries of the centaurs that taunt them discernibl...
4m Nov 16, 2020
4m
The Lost Poet
Earth's surface by Mark Taylor. "Canto 1 and 2 of Inferno take place entirely on the surface of the Earth, so I decided to base my music around the strong narrative contained within these opening verses:  "Opening Section:  Dante is halfway through his life. We find him walking along contentedly, but there is an edge of melancholy to his mood; something is missing. "Section 2 (starts at 1 mi...
7m Nov 14, 2020
7m
Terra de Lumine
Earth's surface created by Elska (Laura Boland). "This soundscape represents Zone 1: Earth’s Surface; an ethereal introduction to Dante’s journey before he reaches the entrance to hell.  The dark forest sequence is depicted with samples of nature sounds that I took in a forest upstate New York. The resonant gongs at the beginning of the piece are from a bodhran drum. The piano tracks are the d...
4m Nov 14, 2020
4m
Selva oscura, amor mi mosse
Dark forest created by Angela Winter. "'Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.' "Dante has lost his way and finds himself wandering through an ambiguous dark forest. As he traverses the surreal landscape, he encounters three beasts—a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf—each more terrifying than the one before. Sudden...
9m Nov 14, 2020
9m
Dark Forest
Dark forest created by Karhide. "Dark Forest is based around the sounds of synthesised strings, strange background noises and a glitchy distorted rhythm to create a dark dense piece of music to get lost in." Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit http://www.citiesandmemory.com/i...
6m Nov 14, 2020
6m