Da Lat evening karaoke
On a breezy but warm evening, karaoke fills the air and billows with the insects of the night. Recorded in Da Lat, Vietnam by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe.
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Packing away the market
Sounds of the walking street market being packed away in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recorded by Alex Boyesen.
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
Arcade chaos
Arcade Plaza with lots of different games playing music all at once. Recorded in Sydney, Australia by Richard Watts.
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
A Saturday night in Testaccio
Hanging out in the Testaccio district on a Saturday evening in a small piazza, where children play football, families chat, young people smoke and drink. We take a walk around the whole perimeter of the piazza to record the sounds from all sides. Recorded in Rome, April 2023 by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 18, 2023
4m
Soundscape with small frogs and roosters
Early evening soundscape with small frogs and roosters. Deshaies, Guadeloupe on September 19, 2019. Recorded by Azadeh Nilchiani.
4m Dec 18, 2023
4m
Powerlooms of Cubbonpete
Walking through the Cubbonpete with two shoulder-mounted condenser mics and a field recorder in my backpack, I was able to capture the sounds of several power-loom industries located in the tiny back-roads. The looms "loom" into focus as I approach them and fade out as I walk away, and each of them carries a distinctive mechanised rhythmic repetitive noise that can be heard clearly, even from o...
4m Dec 18, 2023
4m
Ciao
"For so many, Autumn can be a lovely time of year. For many others, it can be difficult. Cold, rainy, windswept piers. Broken umbrellas in garbage bins. Filthy birds fighting over discarded fish and chips. Warm beer and stale cigarettes. Stubborn sunsets holding high hopes or false promises. Long, sleepless nights. And questions. Lots of questions. The field recording by Richard Watts spoke to...
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Take a step
"Using the main sound - echoing footsteps - I created a story of walking from place to place and encountering new soundscapes on the way. I got inspiration from the background sounds of the recording - like the occasional howling wind and the birds. I then used some of my own field recordings to enhance these elements (wind at the Danish sand dune Råbjerg Mile and a birdsong from a bog in Eston...
6m Dec 18, 2023
6m
Voices in the machine
"I loved this field recording so much, which actually made it hard to work with because I didn’t want to change it. So I used it as an inspiration and added new elements to it. I became interested in the people who are working these power looms, who are often invisible in society, and in art. I found a poem by Margaret Theresa Wightman who worked at the end of the 19th century in millinery fact...
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
Piazza scene
"The field recording was so lively and conveyed so much fun that I wanted to take that atmosphere and play with it. I selected about 12 individual sounds from the original that reflected this idea best, e.g. kids yelling and playing ball, dogs barking, women laughing, a bottle rolling on the ground. These "snippets" were then combined in loops with other pre-recorded sounds, creating a piece al...
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Morning bakery (Andy Lyon reimagining)
"The recording has lots of percussive elements such as scrapes, impacts and swirls. I've used these sounds and their inherent rhythms with various delays, reverbs and a hint of glitch to weave minimal and ambient elements into a percussive, rhythmic track." Valencia bakery reimagined by Andy Lyon.
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
You gotta tap in
"The birdsong felt cyclical and ambient. We imagined walking through a jungle on a planet outside our solar system, and filled the jungle with creatures - some were made with synthesizers, others were made by repitching acoustic instruments." Guadeloupe birdsong reimagined by Sous Chef & Nico Scolieri.
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
Amalgam
"An amalgam of sound events, global sound emissions moving like tides through our ears, imaginations and memories. The original recording is at once incidental and intentional and creates a sensory sound picture into which I have woven my sound recordings to create a densley textured sound map of colliding and merging events that is like the constant tuning of a radio dial by a fascinated child...
6m Dec 18, 2023
6m
Chain kit
"The recording really highlights the value and depth of everyday sounds, so I wanted to make them into energetic beats. I decided not to add any instruments or anything to the audio, instead working with the audio to create the piece. by turning the familiar, everyday rhythms of market soundscapes into beats, I hoped to channel the energy of the space into melodic beats." Chiang Mai packing ma...
3m Dec 18, 2023
3m
Bamboo being cut, Thailand
The sound of bamboo being split, hacked and shaved in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recorded by Alex Boyesen.
9m Dec 18, 2023
9m
Phan Rang insect call by the ocean
Insect calls zap above calming ocean waves. Recorded by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe.
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Midnight waves on a beach
Waves rolling in at midnight on a deserted beach in Sirolo, Italy. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
10m Dec 18, 2023
10m
Late summer afternoon on the beach
"It's 5pm on an August afternoon, and beachgoers and swimmers enjoy the mellow sunshine on Mezzavalle Beach in Portonovo, Italy. Gentle waves, with the occasional beachgoer's voice appearing over the top in the background give this recording a dreamy feeling." Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
Finnish protesters in the snow
"Stand with Ukraine' demonstration in Helsinki, Feb 2022. Crowds gather at the Esplanadin puisto (park). Thick snow on the ground, the sub zero midday temperatures make the snow crunch under your feet. A group of friends laugh and talk together at the back of the crowd. The demo leader speaks over a megaphone. He tells the crowd what to chant. They practise before they march up to the Russian e...
3m Dec 18, 2023
3m
Voice as drum as protest
——————— Voice as Drum as Protest ——————— The march or demonstration is an act of the collective. An act of a community united in protest. This act of protest is very often driven and sustained by sound. This sound is sometimes harsh and sometimes harmonious. Many demonstrations, such as the civil rights march at Selma, use song. Others use prayer, chants, instruments and electrification to mak...
4m Dec 18, 2023
4m
The tide
"When I first listened to the recording, I was immediately drawn to the sound of the waves. I wanted to create a piece that was inspired by those waves as well as the contradiction of water. Water can be tranquil or dangerous, it's both predictable and unpredictable. the Tide is a cyclical wave that can be looped from here to eternity." Italian beach waves reimagined by Ally Poole.
10m Dec 18, 2023
10m
Turmoil
"The sound of ocean waves is something that is associated with the shore and is considered a relaxing sound. I wanted to take the sound out of context and disassociate it from a soothing shoreline sound. Besides the original sound, a sine wave and a low frequency drone was used along with various filters." Midnight waves in Italy reimagined by Ricardo Paraíso Silvestre.
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
An insect from Vietnam, the ocean and rain
"This recording inspired me because of the many levels of different sound sources it introduced. I used the recording as it is and slowed down version combined with my own recording and played midi on top of it... On a rainy day someone dreams of being in Vietnam..." Insects in Vietnam reimagined by Sirpa Jokinen.
12m Dec 18, 2023
12m
The life of bamboo
"I was drawn to this recording because of the range of different percussive sounds produced from cutting bamboo and the magical feeling of the bamboo forest. The people speaking in the recording contrasted with the natural sounds of the forest. It was a dynamic I wanted to play with to produce this piece. In the end, I tried to tell a story from the perspective of the bamboo." Thai bamboo cutt...
1m Dec 18, 2023
1m
Ueno adventure park
"I decided that the field recording should sit within the overall stereo field and along with the music simply form part of the composition and not become too prominent overall. Thus I created the music to wrap around the field recording as if the field recording was another instrument within the piece, which like the other sounds weaves in and out and drops in and out." Ueno Park reimagined b...
5m Dec 09, 2023
5m
Eurasian stroll in 11/8
"Having attended a concert of middle eastern music a few day previous to beginning the piece I was inspired to attempt something rhythmic in a traditional time signature and use some of the pitched components of the recording to allude to a hijaz scale. The recording contained some percussive elements including coughing and bottles rattling which were uses as the rhythmic backbone. This idea wa...
5m Dec 09, 2023
5m
Ueno Park - a quiet place
"The recording location for 'Ueno Park - Quiet Place' is situated in Ueno Onshi Park in Tokyo. It is Japan's first public park and houses important cultural institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, the National Museum of Nature and Science, and the Ueno Zoo. Due to the presence of these significant attractions, it naturally becomes a gathering place fo...
6m Dec 09, 2023
6m
Viale Roma, Vicenza
A walk from the station in Vicenza, Italy past a bar where music is being piped out of a PA, past a row of idling buses. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
2m Dec 09, 2023
2m
Kyoto adventure
"I have never been to Kyoto, but this recording evokes in my mind a meditative place, immersed in nature, so I tried to add to the recording a gentle musical meditation. I also tried to focus on small details of the soundscape, like you might do while meditating, and pulled up from the original sample some seconds of people quietly speaking, turned it up and processed it to become audible but n...
2m Dec 08, 2023
2m
Fushimi Inari Taisha - a quiet place
"The recording location for 'Fushimi Inari Taisha - Quiet Place' is located at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. It is one of Kyoto's busiest tourist attractions, but I also found its own kind of silence here. In both '1.3' and '1.4,' I heard the same insect chirping and its sound resembled that of frogs, but it was not as deep. During subsequent visits, I discovered similar insect sounds in the f...
4m Dec 08, 2023
4m
A song for our mother
"A song for our mother, is a calling for help from our Mother Earth. The recorded sounds gave me the inspiration to compose a story about our forgotten land, the forests. Where our mother is calling us back again. Hope, sorrow, strength, all at once as one body have given me the imaginary landscape to put my thoughts into the sound canvas." Birds in Auroville reimagined by ioannis vlastaris ak...
5m Dec 08, 2023
5m
Enough sleep
"I tell stories using dialogue taken from public domain educational films and giving them new context. I chose a film about sleep health and as one of the characters and I share the same name it really spoke to me. "When we moved to NC 12 years ago, one of the things that I immediately enjoyed was listening to the cicadas. Their sound is somewhere be complete cacophony and beautiful orchestra....
3m Dec 08, 2023
3m
Near the shore
"The drumming of the original recording inspired to create an imaginary soundscape; I saw myself hiding aboard a creaky boat while tribal drums beat in the distance. "First I cut apart the drums to create a new rhythm, then I added some waves, creaks, and seagulls from my own sound library to round out the atmosphere." Ferrara drummers reimagined by Michael Winchester.
2m Dec 08, 2023
2m
A parallel walk
"This piece is composed as a soundwalk, as its initial field recording. The journey unfolds between two parallel worlds – that of the sound recorder and the composer. The recording that I used for this piece is a soundwalk along the path leading to Sumela Monastery in the Black Mountain in Trabzon, Turkey, recorded by Uğur Aslan. "I chose this recording because the recording captures an intrig...
4m Dec 08, 2023
4m
One world, one chance
"Drawing inspiration from the recording of a climate protest in Edinburgh, my electroacoustic composition navigates the landscape of media misinformation surrounding crucial societal issues. Utilising the voices captured during the protest, the piece reflects on the challenge of conveying essential messages amidst the noise of information overload. Through intricate sound processing, the compos...
11m Dec 08, 2023
11m
Japanese drummers at Ferrara International Buskers Festival
"Ferrara International Buskers Festival 2023 - one of the top dates in the global street music calendar. A troupe of masked Japanese drummers using large plastic oil containers as their instruments impresses a large evening crowd, and as the microphone turns we can hear how the sound is being reflected back by a large castle wall behind us." Recorded by Cities and Memory.
6m Dec 08, 2023
6m
Soundwalk at Sümela Monastery
"I captured this audio while walking on a small, narrow road that leads to the entrance of the Sumela Monastery in Karadağ (Black Mountain), Trabzon. This recording is an example of a soundwalk, with natural sounds such as birdsongs, as well as the music of a kemençe, a traditional instrument of the Trabzon region, played by a musician using an amplifier. Additionally, the voices of tourists ca...
2m Dec 08, 2023
2m
Cicadas high in the trees
A chorus of cicadas on a hot afternoon high up in the trees above us in the woods near Sirolo, Italy, August 23. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 08, 2023
5m
Call and response birds
This is a binaural mix of a nature soundscape involving a particular call and response, recorded while I was staying in Auroville, India. Recorded by Raghavendran Rajagopal.
8m Dec 08, 2023
8m
Climate protest, Edinburgh, November 2022
On Saturday 12 November in Edinburgh, a coalition of climate groups marched through the city to demand Climate Justice in solidarity with the Global Day of Action called by Egyptian groups at COP27. Performances, songs and chants featured throughout, some of which captured via field recordings. This recording was from St Andrew Square and features a protestor playing a tongue drum. Recorded b...
3m Dec 08, 2023
3m
The family album
"This sound of flowing water in a stream of Parco Naturale del Conero, takes me back to holidays when I was a little boy. A picnic by the water; I am sitting on a rug, surrounded by family with whom everything is still fine. My father takes photos to preserve a memory for later. I still have his old camera; the shutter is now broken. But sometimes, the golden light of those summers reflects in ...
4m Dec 07, 2023
4m
Sound(s) matter(s)
"This piece is a reflection about the concept of space as sound. Space understood not a visual concept, but as an auditory one, as the connective tissue between all of the objects in the world, carried to the perimeter and to the center. A voluminous environment that emerges from an exquisite global polyphony. This piece was inspired by Mathias Hinke's lesson 'Demonstrations and fun cultures' t...
2m Dec 07, 2023
2m
A hot afternoon in the forest
A humid, hot August afternoon in the Parco Regionale del Conero - we record a small trickling stream in a very quiet, butterfly-filled wood, as the occasional insect buzzes around the microphone to check it out. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 07, 2023
4m
Jeremy Corbyn rally, 2019
Labour Party/Corbyn rally, Manchester Apollo, November 2019 - Corbyn supporters chanting at rally. Recorded by Claire Solanki.
24s Dec 07, 2023
24s
Autumnal drift
"The sound of cicadas are quite meditative. So I let them take me where they wanted to take me. This reimagined piece attempts to tap into the spirit of that journey." Cicadas in Thailand reimagined by Eulipion Corps.
3m Dec 06, 2023
3m
Love machine
"Street sounds from the city of dreams evoking memories of romantic fantasy and escapism in the world of cinema. "Inspired by the field recording of Rome traffic (I have used the entire 4 min sample, thus defining the length of my contribution). "When listening to street sounds, in any city, any country, I try to hear the history of the echoing voices, footsteps and tires rushing by. Being fe...
4m Dec 06, 2023
4m
Roman roads
"A close-up, binaural recording of a paved/tiled road intersection in Rome, April 23, which makes a particular sound as cars cross over it. We can also hear the distinctive sound of the Roman pedestrian crossing beeps periodically." Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 06, 2023
4m
Cicada countryside, Thailand
Nighttime sounds of the cicadas and insects in the trees and fields, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recorded by Alex Boyesen.
15m Dec 06, 2023
15m
Echoes of industry: manipulated rhythms
"The motion of the Long Beach pump creates a complex set of friction, rubbing and impact sounds. These rhythmic interactions have been abstracted, their harshness softened, and new sets of functional sounds, manipulated rhythms, and drones have been created using the Octatrack MkII." Long Beach oil pumping reimagined by Alan Cook.
14m Dec 06, 2023
14m
Busy walla crowd
"I carefully cut six loops from the original recording of sounds that worked for me, then layered them up in Ableton live and jammed with them, adding outboard effect into the mix." Burkina Faso market reimagined by David Webb.
7m Dec 06, 2023
7m