On Gilbert Bridge
In March 2025 we made a series of recordings in and around the Barbican Centre, with the idea of those sounds being folded back into the Observatory Station sound installation, so that the sounds of the Barbican itself become part of the stories being told by sound from around the world. A sound walk starting at Gilbert Bridge, which leads into the Barbican above various water features and fou...
6m Jun 23, 2025
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Branches and blades
"I had a passing notion of a ’concerto for chainsaw and strings’ after hearing this recording - this is a fumbling exploratory sound sketch in that direction." Tree disposal in Greenwich Park reimagined by Fiona Conn.
4m Jun 23, 2025
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Mtskheta
"The voices of the people in the market were so richly expressive and full of life, so I wanted to keep the emphasis on them and utilize their unique intonations and dialogues as the basis for a fun sample-heavy beat. Looping different snippets of voices and overlapping them brought about some interesting textures and tones. "All the while, it's driven by a steady beat (courtesy of a Moby drum...
3m Jun 23, 2025
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Zigzag
"I found out that Imfolozi means “zigzag” in isiZulu, so this was my inspiration to try and make a piece that never sits still, twists and turns. I wanted to reflect the sheer exuberance of the singing in the original piece where the clapping rhythm shifts and returns." Imfolozi Park, South Africa reimagined by Dermot Fitzsimons.
4m Jun 23, 2025
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Industrial log disposal
The extremely loud business of tree and log disposal in Greenwich Park. Trees are trimmed, and the branches and logs are thrown into the back of the wood chipping truck, creating a violently loud industrial sound as they are turned into sawdust in an instant. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Jun 23, 2025
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Breathe brick ghosts
"A drone of "stimvocals" and fountains below mechanical concrete." Gilbert Bridge soundwalk at the Barbican Centre, London reimagined by Dee Fry.
3m Jun 23, 2025
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Traditional silk weaving, Skye
Traditional silk weaving on a countermarch floor loom, as it has been done for thousands of years. Thanks to Skye Silks for letting us record them at work and taking the time to talk us through their practice. Recorded in April 2025 on the Isle of Skye, Scotland by Cities and Memory.
2m Jun 23, 2025
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Caller ID
"This piece reimagines a field recording of everyday people calling out, treating their voices not just as source material, but as the foundation. Approached with deep intention, it aimed to honour the original rhythms and harmonies of the callers without overpowering them. "The composition moves between ambient stillness and percussive energy, layering textures like tracked flute and analogue...
5m Jun 23, 2025
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Voices of the Delta
What began as a simple request for a song became an unforgettable moment. Deep in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, at Gomoti Plains Camp, I asked the staff if they could sing for a recording. Instead of just one song, they formed a choir and gifted me a spontaneous concert of sheer energy in their native language. Recorded by Christina Antoniadou.
15m Jun 23, 2025
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Roaming silence
As I began losing my hearing, the urgency of archiving memory through everyday sounds became more pressing. This work invites viewers to gain a deeper understanding of hearing loss and relate to my personal experience of losing the ability to appreciate the mundane. The audio was captured through my hearing aids in my hometown of Tucson, Arizona, USA in 2023. The audio highlights the fragility...
8m Jun 23, 2025
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Tucson AZ
"I wanted to take the dreamy, on the road vibe of the sample and put it in a totally different aural world." Hearing aid recording in Tucson, USA reimagined by Coxidelic [Tracy Cox].
4m Jun 23, 2025
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Mountain echoes
"The sound of wood whistles and singing stretched to form a sonic memory of a moment embracing regional songs. Regional music that has been passed down and remembered, likely evolving subtly over time. "The time spent on the Greek terrace, sipping tsipouro and sharing music, is not immune to the same change. It will soon be an impression, the songs a distant echo, the melodies muddled. This au...
3m Jun 23, 2025
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Music in the mountains
This is Angelos, one of the permanent residents of the village of Mikro Papingo, which is one of the 46 stone villages in this mountainous region of northwest Greece called the Zagorochoria. Angelos is one of our neighbours; he is retired now but continues to contribute to the musical heritage of this region. He makes his own wooden whistles which he plays, keeping alive regional tunes and son...
6m Jun 23, 2025
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"I created several samples from the original field recording and used 2 that dictated the direction of the rest of the composition. Silk weaving is traditionally quite repetitive work so I wanted to convey this in my piece, aiming to subtly change the tone of the track throughout. I rushed to finish this track as I kept putting it off, like addressing my many unread emails and messages. "In ty...
5m Jun 23, 2025
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Okavango Delta jam
"The Okavango Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to several indigenous communities, including the Batswana and San people, who have lived in the area for centuries. This piece is comprised of audio fragments of a Botswana chant field recording combined with percussion." Okavango Delta songs reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman.
3m Jun 23, 2025
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12 noon at the Lutheran church
Huge 12 noon Sunday bells peal out over a sustained period from the Marktkirche Lutheran church in Hannover, preceded by a walk along a street with several cafes lined with Hannover 96 fans about to head to the match. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
8m Jun 23, 2025
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Bells way out of confusion
"I love bells, and this is a beautiful recording. I feel like Bells have a really unearthly sound. I just let the Bells lead me along as bells do. I also felt a context of bells warning, and the falling apart of things around us, but they also were leading a way out." Bells from Gloucester Cathedral reimagined by Lostworldsounds - Michelle Breslin.
4m Jun 23, 2025
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Gloucester Cathedral bells from inside the antiques market
It was a Saturday afternoon and I was browsing antiques at the Gloucester Antiques Centre when I heard the muffled sound of bells. I moved to the back of the shop to a barred door that led to the backyard and set my recorder. Through the cracks in the door came the sound of Gloucester Cathedral’s bells ringing a few hundred meters away. They had been peeling intermittently across the city all ...
2m Jun 23, 2025
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Where the wild things whisper
A nighttime recording from the Ecuadorian Amazon reveals the hidden world that awakens after dark. Bats flutter overhead, insects create an otherworldly symphony, and distant howls echo through the trees. A gentle stream murmurs beneath it all, weaving a tapestry of life, survival, and mystery. Recorded by Rafael Diogo.
5m Jun 23, 2025
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Malapascua Island fishing village
As dawn stretches gently over the bay, the village stirs to life. The soft clatter of fishermen preparing their lines mingles with the playful clinks of children spinning an old bicycle wheel with a bamboo stick — a game as timeless as the tide. Nearby, the metallic hum of the village well echoes through the dusty sand alley, as barefoot kids dash beneath the waking sun. Roosters, curiously lat...
9m Jun 23, 2025
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Takeshita Street, Tokyo
Takeshita Street, located in Harajuku, Tokyo, is a bustling pedestrian-only street known for its fashion boutiques, cafés, and restaurants. In the recording, made in late October 2024, you can hear the sounds of footsteps, lively conversations, and a mix of languages. This constant flow of people and linguistic diversity reveals the dynamic nature of the street, where the coexistence of so man...
6m Jun 23, 2025
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Lifeforms in the brush
"When listening to the field recording I kept imagining movement all around me. Then I began going to a darker place where I felt large unseen creatures moving toward me and the feelings of slight panic one might experience in that situation, despite the beauty of natures surroundings. My attempt here was to capture the mood and ambience these thoughts brought forth." Night in the Ecuadorian A...
8m Jun 23, 2025
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Takeshita Street (Andy Lyon reimagining)
"Takeshita Street is a busy pedestrian street, I've taken a perspective of being someone who is lost in the crowd / distracted by their phone to create an experimental / ambient / glitchy / tape loop track. "I've used the recording in a number of samplers to create ambience and create those snippets of conversation you tend to hear in passing. It was recorded as a one take live recording on iP...
11m Jun 23, 2025
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An imperfect cadence
"I was inspired by the melancholy and foreboding tone of the bells in direct contrast to the modern chatter like the call of the ancient with the bells dominating the streets almost like they were haunted. "I used it by picking the tone of that bell and enhancing the eerie, haunting atmospherics, weaving the voices in with it." Midday bells in Hannover reimagined by Julie Woolmore.
7m Jun 23, 2025
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Malapascua Island (Head Like a Hole remix)
"Remix of Malapascua Island Fishing Village field recording merged into music with inspiration from Head Like A Hole by Nine Inch Nails. All samples apart from the main synth sound are from the original recording and used to create drum and percussion sounds as well as ambience." Malapascua Island reimagined by Gareth Eckley.
3m Jun 23, 2025
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It happened so fast
"This is a strange pub scene, the kind where all of a sudden you’re inside your own head, as if flashing back years later. The premise came from the first intelligible bit of speech—“It happened so fast”—with flashes of conversation breaking in on that withdrawn mental space, with tones built up from the pub’s background music and the intonation of the language: “it happened so fast,” “the hard...
3m Jun 23, 2025
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Spending the night in a traditional Irish pub
Ambience from inside Kelly's Cellars, a traditional Irish pub in Belfast, including traditional music, pub chatter and the sounds of drinking and general merriment. Recorded in November 2023 by Cities and Memory. IMAGE: Albert Bridge / Kelly's Cellars, Belfast
7m Jun 23, 2025
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Birdsong from West Street
The dawn chorus of Balgowlah, Sydney, NSW in the midsummer, about 6:30am. I heard kookaburras, cockatoos, lorikeets, magpies, noisy miners and many more, with a few sparse domestic and vehicle sounds as the suburb begins to wake. Recorded by Emma Lambert.
4m Jun 23, 2025
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The Amazon's loud frogs
A pre-dawn soundscape dominated by the loud, relentless chorus of frogs, immersing you deeply in the heart of an indigenous community. The sounds get alive as soon as darkness falls, enveloping you in an unbroken, ever-present atmosphere. Deep within the Colombian Amazon, where it meets the Amazonian region of Peru, the vibrant frog calls resonate just before the first light of dawn. Recorded ...
7m Jun 23, 2025
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Extremely difficult
I've been recently working with an old non-linear editing system that has a few quirks. Sometimes, the system freezes making my stressful job even more difficult. I could either restart the system or calmly wait until it "unfreezes". The sound you hear - a voice saying "extremely difficult" - is the frozen edit system looping a part of the interview that I'm working on. I've learned that Inste...
2m Jun 23, 2025
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A love song from Sudan
The Friday market in Ventimiglia, an Italian town on the border with France, is alive with the bustle of French tourists who come weekly to buy goods. The sounds of music, bargaining and laughter fill the air, but there's also an oblivious tension. The Italian police move through the crowd, routinely stopping people — particularly racialized individuals — to ask for documents. "Permesso di sog...
4m Jun 23, 2025
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El espejo de la naturaleza
"Rafael Diogo's recording of the Colombian Amazon sounded so rich to me - and rich in a way that evoked certain things that could happen in my modular synthesizer, particularly the kinds of things that happen when I patch up feedback paths through Serge modules. "So that's what I did. The results interweave various ways of complementing and imitating the selected loops of the original field re...
5m Jun 23, 2025
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Exactimo
"I was struck by the many underlying tensions of this recording. The racialized profiling described by Masha Hassan—the dual nature of observation, the police surveillance of bodies and Masha's surveillance of them juxtaposed against the vibrancy and music of the open marketplace. "I wished to highlight those elements through a chopped and edited approach, a kind of digital tape manipulation, ...
3m Jun 23, 2025
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ExtremelyDifficult03
"The original source recording is from an old sound editing machine that sometimes freezes up on the operator and starts looping at that spot. "I had plenty of ideas, but after a lot of tinkering I found myself paring it all back until finally I was left with two copies of the exact same snippet endlessly looping, snaking in and out of sync. I was mesmerized by this simple variation of the ori...
3m Jun 23, 2025
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Balgowlah slowdown
"I slowed down Emma Lambert's field recording progressively and in layers so the soundspace is a gradual stretching of her field recording. At three quarters of the way to 4min and 8 seconds, the length of the original recording, it is hard to hear the birdsong that is now at about 1 percent. By the end it is at  0.1 percent. The sounds are still there. "There's a saying that if things change ...
4m Jun 23, 2025
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Music baths in Tokyo
"The original sound is a recording of Sengoku-yu Public Baths in Tokyo: the owner is a musician. On this particular Monday, three musicians are working to clean the baths; I imagined, in sound, these three spirits bringing music to the place as they clean, like a true Miyazaki story." Baths in Tokyo reimagined by Clelia Ciardulli.
9m Jun 21, 2025
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Fishermen near The Bouche du Roy, Benin
Songs of fishermen retrieving fish trapped in large nets by force of arms. Recorded by Pierre Costard.
4m Jun 21, 2025
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Shut the hell up! (feat. Shoez Plimsoul)
"I wanted to do something a bit synthwave / cyberpunk / Blade Runner influenced. The original clip gave me the feeling of night and neon lights. I had the idea to add a punk bassline - which was the first thing I recorded. I then added the drums, guitar and then synths. "Finally the vocals came, which are satirical. We love to talk about ourselves, but never speak up when it really matters. An...
4m Jun 21, 2025
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Afternoon in Sigri
My two italian friends had rented a house in Sigri in the island of Lesvos. The house was just by the sea so one could hear constantly the waves inside. My friend is dancing with seaweeds that she had picked at the beach in the living room and she is playing music from a tape. Me and my other friend are reading aloud text that is written for her puppet show in Finnish and Italian. One can also ...
5m Jun 21, 2025
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The sound of 500 wind bells
First is the sound of 500 wind chimes suspended on wires. Then you can hear the morning service begin at the temple. The sound of sutra reading, the bells, and drums. Recorded by Tadamitsu Mizuno.
19m Jun 21, 2025
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Public bath cleaning, Tokyo
This sound was recorded in 2025 at Sengoku-yu, where there is a public bath. The owner of this place is a musician. On Monday mornings, three musicians help to clean up the baths, because  it's closed on Tuesdays. This was recorded in front of the boiler, and behind the high pressure washer. The sound come from these machines. This place is not open for everyone. The view is like Hayao Miyaza...
10m Jun 21, 2025
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On the New Orleans streetcar
Riding a classic New Orleans streetcar. Recorded by Alex Clifford.
5m Jun 21, 2025
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Voodoo fishing
"I aimed for making it sound like a disturbing dream. Used the entire original recording with a copy processed with echo and reverb as well. A drone, some kind of eerie pads and, surprisingly for me, percussion - some of it quite odd..." Fishermen's songs in Benin reimagined by Windspace (Bruce Hickey).
5m Jun 21, 2025
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Mostly goes astray
"Drawing on the lapping waves and flute of the original, I teased out some drones and loops, which I layered and structured using the original recording as a guide, some of which can be heard relatively unprocessed, particularly at the beginning and end of my piece, which takes its title from a fragment of a poem by Sappho (inspired by the location, of course)." Afternoon in Sigri, Greece reim...
5m Jun 21, 2025
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Formless spring
"This piece was an exploration of space and the principle of formlessness. The recording very much inspired me to move away from typical form and structure. Instead exploring space and how form returns to formlessness after having manifested." Wind bells in Ohta Ward reimagined by James Nicholls.
12m Jun 21, 2025
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Please hold on for your safety
"My first memories of New Orleans were made fifty years ago during a family vacation to the city when I was seven years old. I remember a frenzied evening march down a crowded Bourbon Street holding onto my parent’s hand for safety. In the cacophony emanating from the clubs and bars onto the street one sound stood out to me. It was the plunk of the traditional jazz banjo keeping the beat amongs...
5m Jun 21, 2025
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Announcements at Cafe Thom
Government announcements blast by Cafe Thom, a local hot spot for good coffee next to Tay Ho lake. Recorded in Hanoi, Vietnam by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe.
2m Jun 21, 2025
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Night market on the water, Benin
Let yourself be transported by these Beninese women who sell all kinds of food from 3am on board their pirogues before setting off to fish on Lake Nokoué. Recorded by Pierre Costard.Singing, rowing, shouting selling | I took a brief sample of the sounds of the market & used the granular synth Kaivo to create a repetitive but ever-changing piece, which emulated the repetitive but ever changing ...
15m Jun 21, 2025
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Singing, rowing, shouting selling
"I took a brief sample of the sounds of the market & used the granular synth Kaivo to create a repetitive but ever-changing piece, which emulated the repetitive but ever changing nature of the market as captured by the field recording." Night market in Ganvier, Benin reimagined by Tim Coomb.
7m Jun 21, 2025
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Trajinera at Xochimilco canals
Traditional trajinera boat through Xochimilco canals. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. Recorded in Xochimilo, Mexico by Erick Ruiz Arellano.
2m Jun 21, 2025
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