Piazza San Marco, returning to normality
The iconic Piazza San Marco on an August afternoon in 2021, as the city returns to normal levels of tourism after the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the piazza fills with tourists. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
3m Sep 11, 2021
3m
Tutta la squadra
Cittadella stadium announcer reimagined by Richard Watts. "I found the original recording imposing (and slightly sinister for some reason) so I've tried to capture that in the reimagined piece. I've used lots of samples from the original recording and manipulated them using the Alchemy, a sample manipulation synthesizer in Logic Pro."
4m Sep 11, 2021
4m
PA announcer reading out the teamsheet
At the Stadio Tombolato, Cittadella, Italy for Cittadella vs. Crotone, August 2021 - the stadium announcer reads out the Cittadella teamsheet before a match that the home team would go on to win 4-2. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
2m Sep 11, 2021
2m
The memory ski lift
Passo Rolle ski lift reimagined by John Tenney. "Happy and unhappy memories while riding on a ski lift."
3m Sep 08, 2021
3m
Aboard the Passo Rolle ski lift
The sounds from on board a simple two-seater ski lift transporting skiers up the mountain in Passo Rolle, San Martino di Castrozza, Italy. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Sep 08, 2021
4m
The thing and the place itself
Yorkshire Dales field of sheep reimagined by Paul Walsh / Foldhead. "This piece is in part inspired by the memory of a long, lost walk through the hills and valleys of Mayerhofen, Austria, a few years ago.  "Having walked for hours through increasingly heavy falling snow we took what we hoped was a shortcut through a large field.  "After a few minutes traipsing through the snow I looked to m...
9m Sep 07, 2021
9m
A sunset for the sheep
A field of sheep bleating, calling and frolicking at dusk on a beautiful April evening in the Yorkshire Dales, England. The air is clear, the atmosphere is pure with no traffic noise, just the placid hum of the village and the reverb of the hills above. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
3m Sep 07, 2021
3m
Elicottero
AH-64 Apache flypast in Italian Dolomites reimagined by Richard Watts.  "I really like the rhythm in the original recording so have tried to capture that in the reimagined piece. I've used samples of the helicopter and fed them through a filter generator to create the background sounds then added drums, pads and a couple of melodies that seemed to fit."
4m Sep 05, 2021
4m
Military helicopter flypast in the mountains
An Apache AH-64 helicopter on training manoeuvres next to Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Italian Dolomites, as heard from halfway down Monte Piana, August 2021. The helicopter can be heard long before and after its appearance with an enormous reverb trail generated by the sound bouncing off the mountains on every side. An impressive sound. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
2m Sep 05, 2021
2m
The loneliness of the late-night station
Bellevue station, Berlin reimagined by Cities and Memory. "The original recording conjured up a mental image of a deserted, lonely station late at night, with just the occasional traveller passing through, trying to get home. A place of isolation as much as a place of connection. "For the reimagined piece, we've tried to emphasise the 'coldness' of a lonely station late at night and the sense...
5m Sep 04, 2021
5m
A night at Bellevue station
Bellevue station, Berlin, Germany recorded by Cristina Iscenco. "I was walking home after a rehearsal. The sound of the trains was blending with the drone of the bells coming from nowhere. It was only about 20:30, but everything was asleep and dark."
1m Sep 04, 2021
1m
Brent de l'Art
Torrent at Brent de l'Art, northern Italy reimagined by Karhide. "The idea behind the track was the slow erosion of the rock to form the canyon."
5m Sep 03, 2021
5m
Torrents of canyon water
Brent de l'Art is a natural rock formation similar to a canyon, created by thousands of years of erosion by water, which has exposed layers of rock formed millions of years ago. This erosion is due to the debris that the water carries across these narrow valleys. Stones and plants overwhelmed by the flood of water, once they enter the canyon they create whirlpools, they hit the walls, digging ...
4m Sep 03, 2021
4m
Horses at a mountain stream
An idyllic scene from Lago Antorno in the Italian Dolomites, as a pack of horses with cowbells attached to their necks feeds on lush grass next to a mountain stream. In this recording you can hear the horses, the bells and the water rushing by in a binaural recording taken close by. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
1m Sep 03, 2021
1m
Lago Antorno (Cravune remix)
Horses by the stream at Lago Antorno, Italy reimagined by Cravune.  "The original piece evokes tranquillity and peacefulness. I wanted to overemphasise this aspect of the recording by chopping the audio, pitching it down and rearranging it on top of a simple low frequency drone."
2m Sep 03, 2021
2m
Saudi Arabia Riyadh hotel (Andy Lyon reimagining)
Marriott hotel sounds from Riyadh reimagined by Andy Lyon. "I wanted the focus to be on the recording, I really like the flow and contrast.  I've added subtle orchestration and effects to try and create a 'floaty' kind of ambiance to compliment the recording."
8m Sep 02, 2021
8m
Birdsong and sirens, Riyadh
One of our earliest recordings from Saudi Arabia, sadly only able to be captured on a mobile phone, but evocative of the soundscape nonetheless. In 40 degree heat outside the Marriott hotel, we can hear police sirens in the distance, the heavy drone of Riyadh's constant traffic, and a light chorus of birdsong in the hotel garden.  Recorded by Cities and Memory.
8m Sep 02, 2021
8m
The sky is a soundtrack
Starling murmuration in Curtarolo, Italy reimagined by Cities and Memory. "Seeing a murmuration of any size is a truly wonderful event, and in this recording we're close to the roosting birds and their sound is pushed directly down to us, so the soundscape is full and loud.  "The reimagined piece is based around trying to musically visualise the absorbing and miraculous patterns of the murmur...
4m Sep 01, 2021
4m
Starlings murmuring on a mobile mast
A small murmuration of starlings swirling around in the sky and then landing in large numbers to roost and chatter on a mobile mast in Curtarolo, Italy on a hot August day. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Sep 01, 2021
4m
If you listen closely through the forest, you can hear the rumble of the highway
Bindertwine Park, Ontario reimagined by Neil Wiernik. "Birds chirping in a forest meadow, it feels like we are in a remote place away from the cars and the city but if you listen closely you can hear the rumble of the cars and trucks on the highway off in the distance.  "What if the birds voices became louder, deeper, doubled, what if the sound of the breeze through the trees became tones, dr...
19m Sep 01, 2021
19m
In Bindertwine Park
"This recording was made in a meadow surrounded by the forest of Bindertwine Park, in Vaughan, Canada. Birds chirping and if you listen closely you can barely hear the highway off in the distance, all ending with a gust of wind." Recorded by Neil Wiernik.
1m Sep 01, 2021
1m
Panelaõs for Rio
Rio de Janeiro Panelaço protest reimagined by Jochen Edmund Pendleton. "Pots and pans make wonderfully festive musical instruments.  Here I've added a few others of my own design and, channelling Walter Smetak, tried to find some stillness amidst the commotion."
9m Aug 29, 2021
9m
Mountain kosmische
Radio mast on Monte Capanne reimagined by Cities and Memory. "Having looked for more information on the masts atop Monte Capanne, we discovered that one of them is the key Italian mast for Radio France (you can see Corsica across the water from Elba), which became the starting point for this piece.  "A sample from Radio France (courtesy of the Shortwave Radio Archive) forms the crackling back...
5m Aug 28, 2021
5m
A sinister hum on top of a mountain
Having climbed to the top of Monte Capanne on the Italian island of Elba, we were greeted by the sight of several enormous radio/mobile masts at the summit.  Not exactly the most beautiful sight, necessary though these masts are, but the perfect peace at the top of the mountain was broken by the incessant, pulsing drone from the masts, which becomes the key sound signature at the summit.  Thi...
2m Aug 28, 2021
2m
Everdream
Kotor old town reimagined by Bev Craddock. "When I visited Kotor at the end of an exhausting and emotional bike trip from Split via Mostar I stumbled across a Jazz cafe called Evergreen in the Old Town which has Tom Waits pictures on all the tables and live music.  "I sampled a loop from a track, used a music box recording of the sonata, stretched the supplied recording and played some played...
4m Aug 28, 2021
4m
Turbine transformation
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford sound installation reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman. "The source of the original field recording was a sound installation at the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University involving windmills.  "My reimagined piece, like a windmill, revolves and evolves around the field recording, part of which can be heard as a buzzing, insect-like drone  and child's voice, which ...
3m Aug 28, 2021
3m
90 minutes compressed
Venezia vs. Cittadella football match reimagined by de Velden. "The field recording that started this track was made amongst football fans, away from the pitch.  "It captured the excitement on the stands, which, in my track, I have tried to bring together with a musical interpretation of the drama and particularly the dynamics of a game of football."
5m Aug 18, 2021
5m
Among the ultras
A rare recording from the away end at a Serie B football match in Italy, December 26 2019. The Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo in Venice is unlike any other in the world, requiring arrival for the away fans via a vaporetto water taxi across Venice.  During this match, which Cittadella won 2-1, we hear the aftermath of one of Cittadella's goals, with songs, chanting and general merriment (and abuse) be...
6m Aug 18, 2021
6m
NYC Chinatown wander
Chinatown, New York City reimagined by Kathleen Judge. "Having lived in New York City’s Chinatown many years ago, listening to the original field recording brought many memories to mind. Visions and sounds full of static—distorted by time. Moments of clarity, a solid memory surfaces— and then vanishes.  "I approached this piece as if I were tuning into a memory of a place, like turning a dial...
6m Aug 18, 2021
6m
An exploration of Chinatown
Recording from Mott and Hester in Chinatown, New York City by Cities and Memory.  A soundwalk through the Chinatown district, with multiple open shop fronts and customers giving the feel of a busy Chinese market right in the heart of Manhattan. 
5m Aug 18, 2021
5m
A single chord in an abandoned hospital
Abandoned hospital sound reimagined by Cities and Memory. "The original field recording is a sinister drone right out of a dystopian tale, and I wanted to accentuate that sinister quality, along with the mechanical, industrial nature of the sound.  "This is a 'self-generating' piece with various arpeggiators and loops playing the same chord and developing themselves over the course of the pie...
5m Aug 16, 2021
5m
Empty hospital drone
Abandoned hospital drone recorded by Connor Orrico. "The children's hospital moved, so this is just ambience of the abandoned central plaza of the old building next to a fairly busy street."
2m Aug 16, 2021
2m
Starlings
Starling murmuration reimagined by thequietwood.  "The field recording reminded me of walks and runs (very slow jogs), on my local moor (Dartmoor). "I imagined myself going for a run on a crisp spring morning, crunching my way over icy grass  and stopping by a hedgerow where I briefly disturb the Starlings, and then I proceed to run on, watching the murmuration display of the soaring and swir...
6m Aug 16, 2021
6m
Starling murmurations, Otmoor
A freezing cold afternoon in winter, and we visited the RSPB nature reserve at Otmoor in Oxfordshire to try to see the starling murmurations. The main event happened way off in the distance and was impossible to record, but walking back along the icy, flooded path, we accidentally disturbed a huge number of starlings in a hedgerow right next to us, who took to the skies and circled above our he...
2m Aug 16, 2021
2m
Time rings out across the city
Oxford New Year's Eve bells reimagined by Matt Chapman Jones. "As I listened to the recording, I ended up thing of how they are such a constant part of a city; all the comings and goings, rises and falls but the bells sounding out the passage of time are in fact much more permanent."
3m Aug 16, 2021
3m
New Years' Eve in a global pandemic
New Year's Eve 2020 in Oxford - the country remained in a state of lockdown, with citizens only allowed out to exercise outdoors in their own local area, with no socialising allowed with others, truly the most bizarre festive season anyone has experienced. We wandered around the centre of our home city in thick fog on a freezing night, and right next to the famous Radcliffe Camera, the bells of...
1m Aug 16, 2021
1m
Recycle
Little Tribune Bay barnacle recording reimagined by Donia Jourabchi. "The composition is composed of only one sound, namely the recording made in Canada by Rogalsky: Little Tribune Bay - low tide barnacles.  "The sound was processed and synthesized in various ways to accentuate the manipulation of the recycled elements. The rhythms are inspired by the repetitive patterns present in the nature...
5m Aug 16, 2021
5m
Barnacles at low tide
Barnacles at very low tide, July 2015 at Little Tribune Bay, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada. Recorded with Telinga Stereo MK2 parabolic mic and Tascam DR-680mkII by Matt Rogalsky. Image credit: Tyler Ingram on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tyleringram
1m Aug 16, 2021
1m
Street sounds
Donald Trump motorcade reimagined by Marg Laing. "The street sounded frenetic and noisy at first, but the rhythm emerged, as voices pinged back and forth over cars hooting. I like isolating sounds and tones and creating new sequences and finding melodies." Image credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.
1m Aug 16, 2021
1m
Donald Trump motorcade, Hanoi 2019
Recording from the Trump/Kim Jong Un summit in Hanoi, Vietnam in February 2019 as Trump's motorcade travels across the city. Recorded by Marcel Gnauk. "While driving across the city I saw American and North Korean flags all across the capital. "I discovered that Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un were having their second meeting in Hanoi. "A great opportunity to record convoy, motorcade sound effe...
2m Aug 16, 2021
2m
Rhodes Must Fall protest, Oxford, June 2020
A mass protest held at the height of the global Covid-19 pandemic in Oxford, UK. Following the global Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, there was renewed pressure to remove the statue of slave trader Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College in Oxford.  This translated into a mass protest against the statue and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in central Oxford. Cities and ...
12m Aug 13, 2021
12m
The rhythm of Rhodes Must Fall
Oxford Rhodes Must Fall protest reimagined by Margaret Fischer.  "Rhythm is such an interesting force - it creates a sense of unity and community, and yet it is also a weapon of war. In this reimagining, I wanted to highlight how the shared mindset and singular purpose of this group of protestors spontaneously and naturally found its collective rhythm. Midway, you’ll hear the rhythms of pencil...
1m Aug 13, 2021
1m
Sea otters at Morro Bay
The sound of sea otters and the natural soundscape at Morro Bay Marine Nature Reserve, California, USA - recorded by Marcel Gnauk.
7m Aug 06, 2021
7m
Breezy Sunday
Morro Bay sea otters reimagined by Baying Ridges.  "This recording immediately took me to a casual Sunday enjoying the sun and the breeze.  So we have a nice relaxing chord progression with the original file coming through in the background and in the underlying pad."
3m Aug 06, 2021
3m
For the beauty of earth
Earth God celebration in Taiwan reimagined by Alex Hehir.  "This recording sounded loud and celebratory so I wanted to use fairly unprocessed snippets throughout. All of the 'drums' are built from the original as well as some melodic sections. As in some of my previous submissions, I have woven in heavily processed traditional instruments alongside some modular synths."
4m Aug 05, 2021
4m
Honour the Earth God
A traditional music show to honour the Earth God at the Wencun Earth God Temple, Taichung City, Taiwan. Recorded by Elfo. 
1m Aug 05, 2021
1m
Tomorrow, not now
Venetian recording from Fondamenta Savorgnan reimagined by John Savarese. "The field recording is a soundwalk through Venice, starting (I gather) around the Ponte della Crea and moving southeast along the Cannaregio, past a school.  "I wanted to keep the soundwalk intact, and scored it by following some of the main sounds: boat noise, voices, waves, a howling dog."
5m Aug 05, 2021
5m
Daily life on Fondamenta Savorgnan
As part of a day of field recording in Venice, we explored some of lesser-walked (by tourists) parts of the city to examine daily life as it's lived by Venetians.  In this recording, you can hear school classes being taught as we walk past the windows of classrooms, teenagers leaving class and chatting by the side of the canal, and machine/work boats passing back and forth. Recorded by Cities ...
6m Aug 05, 2021
6m
WaveWorks
Hungarian beach reimagined by Andrew Tulloch.  "When I initially chose the sound, I envisaged making a melodic summery piece which would float over the recording, but in the end it turned out rather darker sounding. "The quiet droning boat sound in the background provides an interesting counterpoint to the natural wave sounds, and put me in mind of the Danube's history of trade. The overall c...
11m Aug 05, 2021
11m
Free beach by the Danube
Field recording of ambient beach sounds, vehicles, people, waves from Zebegény, Hungary by Ádám Szegvári. 
1m Aug 05, 2021
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