Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world.

The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world.

What you'll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those sounds. Each podcast description tells you more about what you're hearing, and where it came from.

There are more than 6,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 120 countries and territories. The sounds cover parts of the world as diverse as the hubbub of San Francisco’s main station, traditional fishing women’s songs at Lake Turkana, the sound of computer data centres in Birmingham, spiritual temple chanting in New Taipei City or the hum of the vaporetto engines in Venice. You can explore the project in full at www.citiesandmemory.com

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory
Arts
6375 episodes / 2.11M listens
Piazza life
  1. A night in the piazza
  2. Kill The Bill protest, Parliament Square
  3. Three o'clock in Piazza San Marco
  4. Call to prayer in Deera Square, Riyadh
The Sound of Adventure
  1. Masai Mara warriors' song, Kenya
  2. To step outside time's relentless flow
  3. Early morning at Pepperskär Hamnen
  4. Finlandia
Vietnam
  1. On the edge of a lake in the jungle
  2. CO-PI-I
USA
  1. Vermont's dawn chorus
  2. Shadows unveiled
Thailand
  1. Sting Club Muay Thai gym, Chiang Mai
  2. Unboxing
South Africa
  1. On the pier, Cape Town
  2. Promise of the pier
Portugal
  1. Sound Reflections on the East Wall, Portugal
  2. Path
Kenya
  1. Masai Mara warriors' song, Kenya
  2. To step outside time's relentless flow
Japan
  1. Crossroads - bird chirping, Tokyo
  2. Adventures in temporal displacement
Italy
  1. Piazza San Marco on a hot August day
  2. The distant horizon
India
  1. Eid Milad-ul Nabi at Nizamuddin Dargah
  2. Delhi's memory lane
France
  1. Deer and owls in the middle of the night, France
  2. A page of the night book
Costa Rica
  1. Savia Monteverde: dawn chorus, Costa Rica
  2. Arrival
Finland
  1. Early morning at Pepperskär Hamnen
  2. Finlandia
Obsolete Sounds
  1. Traditional red phone box in London
Manufacturing and factories
  1. Traditional stone carving in Luxor
  2. Waset
Polar Sounds - the compositions
  1. Majestic mammalia
  2. Stand by (featuring Fyfe Dangerfield)
  3. Balaena
  4. Sound for the king
Polar Sounds - the field recordings
  1. The Antarctic Minke Whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)
  2. The Ross seal (Ommatophoca rossii), recording 2
  3. The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
  4. Seismic shooting (Airgun exploration for oil and gas), recording 2
Industrial sounds
  1. Powerlooms of Cubbonpete
  2. Echoes of industry: manipulated rhythms
  3. Nightmare fuel - oil pumping in Long Beach
  4. Under Heaven
Deserts and plains
  1. Falling from the edge of the world
  2. The Edge of the World, Saudi Arabia
  3. The empty quarter
  4. Desert wind in Oman

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