Taxi dreams
"Deciding how to re-compose this soundscape, meant to us choosing which flow we would give a sound to. We could give a new sonic texture to the motion of a trip, to the images seen through the car windows or, alternatively, we could create a sound(track) for an open-eyed dream. "Should we sit in the car or definetely step outside of it? "We finally stayed on the reflective side of the journey...
3m Dec 02, 2024
3m
Moral commute
Shared taxi rides are a ubiquitous mode of transportation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. What I found fascinating were the choices of music/audio playing out of the vehicle's speakers. The music was often Tajik pop de jour, but the range was really wide - from Russian prison chanson to Qur'anic verses performed melodically. I often wondered if the choice of the sound reflected the driver's inner sta...
3m Dec 02, 2024
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Gen
"This composition emerged from a spirit of playful experimentation and improvisation. Our approach was rooted in letting the original recording of children playing guide us. Rather than overthinking or imposing a rigid structure, we listened to the recording and responded to it. "This process of listening, layering, and building encouraged a playful connection to the sounds, embodying the joy ...
10m Dec 02, 2024
10m
Playtime in Palma
Children playing after school in a plaça in Palma, Mallorca as groups of parents look on and chat amongst themselves. The soundscape of a bustling city makes itself known on all sides around us. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 02, 2024
5m
Lunchtime rush in a Parisian bouillon
The clatter, noise and hubbub of Bouillon Chartier, Paris, during the lunchtime rush hour - food, wine, serving staff shouting and the throb of conversation. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 02, 2024
5m
Oriel! Oriel!
Live action from a great Oxford tradition, the annual university rowing competition Eights Week. In this recording you can hear the crowd on the banks of the Thames next to the Oxford college boathouses cheering on their colleges in a race, culminating in a chant of "Oriel! Oriel!" Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 02, 2024
5m
On the streets in Cannaregio
It's aperitivo time in Cannaregio, Venice - bars by the side of the canal are filling up, and as we head down Fondamenta Cannaregio, we capture the classic soundscape of early evening in Venice, as the city downs tools for the day and claims its own "me time". Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 02, 2024
5m
Ten o'clock in Tallinn
Binaural recording of rain in Tallinn's beautiful Raekoja Square, with passers-by, the restaurants and bars unusually empty and the church bells ringing for 10pm. We can hear overspill water coming down from the gutters at the top of the church. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
3m Dec 02, 2024
3m
Detroit Grand Prix
I have captured the sounds of the Indy Cars practicing for the Detroit Grand Prix. The recordings were taken on the bridge that crosses directly over the racetrack over Jefferson Avenue at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit. Recorded by Rebecca Goldberg.
4m Dec 02, 2024
4m
Michigan midnight drive
""Michigan Midnight Drive" uses the original sample as a starting point for a midnight drive in Michigan. We start by walking out to our car, revving the engine, turning onto the highway and heading out from Lansing and our ambient music scene here. We pass through Detroit, with hints of techno and, finally make our way out to the Great Lakes to listen to the waves underneath the Aurora Boreali...
4m Dec 02, 2024
4m
Remembering Michael
"In the original recording I enjoy how the sound of rain is both rhythmical and random, a natural but almost artificial sound that crackles while waves of people passing through the square, along with interventions of a church bell. I created some synthesised elements to respond to these sounds and splice them together. Tools used - Reaper, midi, and a first dabble with Roland S1." Tallinn Old...
2m Dec 02, 2024
2m
A flaneur in the city
"The focus is on expressing the energy of the sound of all this activity -- the sounds of the traffic, of people and kids enjoying their time. The resonant frequencies are drawn out from this rich palette of sounds to create musical tones that build and shimmer along with with the movement of the recording." Fondamenta Cannaregio, Venice reimagined by Wayne DeFehr.
6m Dec 02, 2024
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Sea of resonant voices
"I imagine the sounds of everyone talking as a symphony of people communicating where their instruments are their voices. The piece highlights sound crowd sounds with slowed down background textures to provide resonating support." Bouillon Chartier, Paris reimagined by Wayne DeFehr.
9m Dec 02, 2024
9m
NeuroSpiceRace
"I asked for a random sound file and got surprisingly this sporty file. "In the first moment I was a bit puzzled - I am midgrade dyspractic with lots of synesthesia: all kind of sports are just overwhelming, even while only watching. * So I decided to transform this given field recording into something what deals with neurospicey perception, with the feeling of being overwhelmed by sensomotori...
12m Dec 02, 2024
12m
Treviso in the rain
"Having visited Treviso briefly alone last year (and fallen in love with it) around a similar time in winter, and hearing this recording, i tried to imagine what i would have had in my headphones as I explored. What came was a very much less is more piece of piano to accompany the original melancholic rainy recording. "It's also the first time that I've written/recorded piano in a take, on one...
3m Dec 01, 2024
3m
Musetti takes the match
Live action from Court Two at the world's most famous tennis tournament, Wimbledon, as Lorenzo Musetti defeats Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in four sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. This is a recording of the final game, the crowd celebrating, and Musetti's emotional post-match interview, in which he talks about this as being one of the most significant achievements of his career to date, and how his li...
8m Dec 01, 2024
8m
Treviso sleeps on a hot August afternoon
From the Isola della Pescheria in Treviso on a hot afternoon, the sleepy sound of a city with water running through it from two different rivers. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 01, 2024
4m
Waterfall at Uzungöl
This field recording was taken at Uzungöl, one of the most popular touristic place in Trabzon. Although the general characteristics of the soundscape of this lake mostly has the anthrophonic features, the eastern part of the lake where this recording has been taken has less human circulation and activities. Thus, at this place there is an artificial waterfall where the river goes towards the l...
5m Dec 01, 2024
5m
An elderly woman sings with an accordion
There are few musicians on the street in Kemerovo, Russia, but this woman often sings folklore songs to the accordion. At the beginning of the recording, you can hear the noise of this place, cars and other industrial sounds. Recorded by Pavel Lopatin. IMAGE: Илья КУЗБАСС, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
6m Dec 01, 2024
6m
Wimbledon (future match rework)
"My composition draws inspiration from futurism, blending sharp, mechanical sounds with a dreamlike quality that evokes a sense of both innovation and nostalgia. The electronic textures pulse with the energy of a distant, imagined future, yet they carry a soft, ethereal undercurrent that blurs the lines between past and future. "By distorting and layering sounds, I create a sonic landscape tha...
9m Dec 01, 2024
9m
Kemerevo memories
"Every field recording is like a memory. The one I was working with, more so. Assigned randomly, the first time I listened to it, it sounded like a journey. A memory from a journey. I tried to reimagine this piece as if it was my own memory - how would I remember it if I had no field recording of it? "A journey, a haunting melody, whispers, atmospheres... all a blur and a few moments standing ...
5m Dec 01, 2024
5m
Let it flow
"This sound of the waterfall inspired me an introspective and very intimate journey in a "land of memories" : Turkish words from an old man resonate with other voices on a rainy night near the waterfall in Trabzon. "The second part of this piece is a bathing in the waterfall that will wash even soul ,an invitation to to let go without forcing and to ...let it flow." Cristina Italiani, composi...
5m Dec 01, 2024
5m
Rise
"The first thing which struck me about the Cemetery Soundscape recording was the understated subtlety. It gave me a sense of peace as I listened; a peace I often find walking around cemeteries and graveyards in the UK. I thought about how cultural links with death has shaped these places and reflected on my own experiences of the death of family members and friends and feelings of grief and sor...
6m Dec 01, 2024
6m
Angsapura cemetery soundscape
At that time I enjoyed my solitude by recording sound and drinking several bottles of beer, most the type sound can hear in this track. Recorded in Angsapura cemetery, Deli Serdang, Indonesia by Farhan Boy.
5m Dec 01, 2024
5m
Can you see the bells?
"Music is always visual for me, so tried to make it so, figuratively and literally. The bells from Hyde park caught my attention first, so I've developed bell-like sounds through the composition using Yamaha FS1R synth and my Eurorack modular system. "Also it's impossible to ignore the band playing at the beginning of the recording, so I've found the perfect loop and created the rhythmic backb...
5m Dec 01, 2024
5m
Seasons of mist
"I blended parts of the field recording supplied with a live recording of my band MWAK (Mike Harper - guitar, Wilf Dell - piano, Alison Beattie - Sax, Kevin Tilbury - Ney and Electronics) playing at Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre in Glasgow. The birdsong elevated the spacey beginning and the children's voices were added to give an outdoor feel. Ping pong and percussive sounds were applied to increas...
14m Dec 01, 2024
14m
Sermon in dub
"Taking the elements of a religious preacher and stripping back the meaning to create a more loving feeling. The bass and drums give the reggae feel alluding to a warmer climate than the streets of Toronto again creating a warmer feeling than the original sermon was preaching (daming the non-believers). A lot of use of effects on the vocals adding delay and reverb to create the dub element." T...
6m Dec 01, 2024
6m
Soapbox sermon
Dundas Square is a major intersection in downtown Toronto, Canada. It has a high population of buskers and other entertainment. This particular evening turned into a sermon. Recorded by Scott Bennett. IMAGE: cisko66, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
18m Dec 01, 2024
18m
A terminal wait
At Tallinn airport terminal, with birdsong piped into a souvenir gift shop, the children's play area, a game of ping pong in progress and the chatter of passing passengers in various languages. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
8m Dec 01, 2024
8m
Hyde Park, Sydney
A walk through Hyde Park in Sydney, Australia, with buskers, fountain, and bells from St Mary's Cathedral. Recorded by Richard Watts.
3m Dec 01, 2024
3m
Autumn rhythm (ode to street traffic)
"The original field recording is dense, detailed and full of lively street traffic noise. Bursts of radio, voices, cars and noise. The intertwined sounds of life inspired where I cut the samples, how I colour coded them to arrange and structure the track that ultimately ebbs and flows like the snapshot of life captured. "Slowly the melody presented itself, fleeting and briefly there as a coda,...
6m Nov 26, 2024
6m
Intermundium
Intermundium is a stroll down the sidewalk in a street called Titi Garage in Yaounde, Cameroon (Central Africa). This piece was recorded using stereo microphones. On the right, you can hear the hustle and bustle of the road: mostly cars and motorcycles zooming by. On the left, you can hear folks chatting, taxis stopping, and bars with music playing. Amidst this urban soundscape, the natural wo...
9m Nov 26, 2024
9m
Early morning livestock market
This market is the biggest Livestocks market in Altay area at west-north part of XingJiang Province. The herders still use the traditional way to dealing with the price, which's been 1 thousand years or even longer. Except the busy animals roars, you also can hear them talking and clapping hands(means deal). Recorded by Digimonk.
4m Nov 26, 2024
4m
On Platform 7
On the newly-refurbished platform 7 at Gatwick Airport, UK, as we hears trains arriving, dropping up hundreds of travellers and holidaymakers excited about embarking on their latest journeys, while every 30 to 60 seconds a plane takes off or lands overhead, making it clear that this can only be a train station directly connected to an airport. Recorded by Cities and Memory. IMAGE: Sunil060902...
4m Nov 26, 2024
4m
The life & the line
"A low laid back trail of beats supported by a separation of melodies representing the general minimal motion that is interupted by the bursts of air & rail travel." Gatwick Airport railway station reimagined by Scholars of the Peak. IMAGE: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
4m Nov 26, 2024
4m
Breath on the air of a high Altay valley
"The original recording is of a livestock market in the city of Altay, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. There are men shouting and talking, various noises of a livestock market, and a huge variety of bellowing sounds from the livestock. The animal noises are very musical in their own way, but also wonderfully unique and discordant, and I was inspired to use these sounds as the basis for exper...
8m Nov 26, 2024
8m
Island Gardens
"I often focus on the visual nature of sound and music, and when working with field recordings, my aim is always to find the hidden or unexpected connections between the sounds of the recording, musical sounds and other natural sounds. I always try to create expansive musical landscapes that can trigger memories and associations - and hopefully invite the listener to create their own mental ima...
4m Nov 21, 2024
4m
DLR from Island Gardens
Aboard the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) line of the London Underground, travelling from Island Gardens to Westferry. Announcements, doors closing, the thrum of passengers sounds and the drone of train engines. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Nov 21, 2024
4m
Street market and Thai announcements
The bustling sounds of the street market with a public announcement in the foreground. Recorded in Chiang Mai, Thailand by Alex Boyesen.
7m Nov 21, 2024
7m
City of night
"I took the recording of the loudspeaker at the start of the recording and broke it down into rhythmical elements. This formed the basis of the track. From them I layered beats and chords around it." Chiang Mai night market reimagined by Gareth Evans.
5m Nov 21, 2024
5m
Action from Eights Week
 Soundscape from the traditional Oxford University rowing competition, Eights Week, held in May each year. You can hear commentary on race preparation, advice for boating crews and race in progress, crowds chattering and cheering and the atmosphere of the event. Recorded in May 2024 by Cities and Memory.
8m Nov 21, 2024
8m
RGB (105,105,105)
"RGB (Red, Green, Blue) is a colour model used for representing and displaying colours in digital systems. The acronym RGB stands for Red, Green, and Blue, which are the three primary colors of light. In this context, RGB (105,105,105) represents the colour DimGrey, and this track serves as the soundtrack for DimGrey. In RGB (105,105,105), the audio source from an Oxford race event was deconst...
3m Nov 21, 2024
3m
Hotel Shadab
A busy lunch service at the Hotel Shadab in Ghansi Bazar, Hyderabad. This is a traditional biryani restaurant with open air seating near the street and aircon service upstairs. Even in the closed portion, the bustle of the city can be heard. Recorded by Rob Phillips.
2m Nov 21, 2024
2m
Sound of city festivities
"The original field recording was from Hotel Shadab, Hyderabad India. The recording was so humanly rich, with lots of voices, and activities which gave me an aural sense of a city in a busy day. Although I have never been to Hyderabad, the recording presented information about a generic day but of a particular time. "So the recording inspired me in a way, that I wanted to illustrate my city, w...
9m Nov 21, 2024
9m
Remembrance of things to Come
"I was inspired to use depth and space to frame both the ambient atmosphere and the composition; to have layers of time and memory intermingling, manifesting a narrative of sorts. "Another aspect is that we hear the sound recordist, which I really like, and that presence adds another mysterious layer to the story." River in Otterton, England reimagined by Eulipion Corps.
5m Nov 14, 2024
5m
ⱨȞǝṝԺ
"My partner is a scientist who studies reindeer, so I've been lucky enough to spend a fair amount of time with these strange animals and the people who herd them. The relationship between the deer and the herders is unique in the realm of human-animal relationships, more akin to symbiosis than to any definition of domestication. "The crunching texture of the footsteps through snow suggested a ...
5m Nov 14, 2024
5m
The Otter flows
The River Otter gently flows over a bed of stones in Otterton, England, accompanied by the chirping of summer birdsong, and a gentle breeze blowing through the grasses. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Nov 14, 2024
5m
Herding reindeer at Dukha Camp
Dukha, there is another well-known name is Tsaatan which's called by Mongolia. its small and special community at west-north corner of Mongolia. They're actually Tuvan, living with reindeers and still keep the traditional migration life. I lived with them at their winter camp in deep mountains for a week. What a nice and pure people. Recorded by Digimonk.
3m Nov 14, 2024
3m
Vicolo della Torre
"I've been really into the concept of "anemoia," a term referring to feelings of nostalgia for places or events that one has never experienced. Listening to field recordings often gives me this feeling; they're a little glimpse into someone else's life or a part of the world, and the sound-only nature of field recordings allows the listener to use their imagination and immerse themselves into t...
4m Nov 11, 2024
4m
Kids in the rain
"As soon as I read the title of the field recording it made me nostalgic for that time when rain wasn't just an inconvenience to be avoided, but something fun. Who didn't love splashing in puddles or drawing on a steamed up window in the back of a car as a child? "My editing of the field recording was minimal, simply removing a few short sections that I felt distracted from the sounds of the f...
4m Nov 11, 2024
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