Fajr in Tunis
A recording of the first call to prayer of the day, from the rooftop of my friend's house. I love the way the vocalisations from different mosques interact with one another, and how noises of the city take over as the calls fade away. Recorded in Tunis by Ben Gale.
4m Jun 21, 2025
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Ahuexote
"Ahuexote is an acousmatic work that explores the sounds of the waterways of Xochimilco (Mexico), the oar of the trajinera, the breathing of the tree, and the heartbeat of the ecosystem. In the still mirror of its waters, an ancestral pulse beats in Xochimilco: its canals are the arteries of this land, where axolotls murmur and the liquid, silent memory of flowers is preserved. "The soundscape...
8m Jun 21, 2025
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Waorani ancestral
"Decided to give the inspiring piece some ambience without being too invasive." Waorani dance from Ecuador reimagined by Elaine Silva.
2m Jun 21, 2025
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Acoustic residue
"Processed using the MakeNoise Tape and Microsound Machine. The work abstracts the sounds of the olive press while retaining its original acoustic character and suggestion of utility — transforming obsolete machinery into a resonant source of sonic potential, an acoustic residue." Abandoned olive press in Benfeita, Portugal reimagined by Alan Cook.
7m Jun 21, 2025
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Dogtown
"A team of 18 sled dogs at the Sisimiut observatory station in Greenland howls in a rising and falling chorus at feeding time. While a human can typically hear high-frequency sounds up to 20,000 Hz, dogs can hear up to 60,000 Hz or above and are highly attuned to pitch differences as small as 1/8 tone. Here the dogs' cries are slowed down and lowered in pitch, revealing melodies that appear to ...
4m Jun 21, 2025
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Sapporo
"I liked the sound of the crows, you hear them everywhere. I manipulated the original sound and improvised over it and then reworked the whole. By accident the sound became like a pulse which created a tension. I just followed that impulse." Crows in Sapporo, Japan reimagined by Patrick Bridge.
7m Jun 21, 2025
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Fajr
"The original sound file is the core of the piece, having taken shorter bits of the audio and collaged them with audio from synthesizers to form the whole. Hardware used was Apple Mac MINI, Roland Seaboard M; Software used was Logic, Audacity, and Equator II. "The piece evolved from the environmental non-human sounds in the original recording." Fajr call to prayer in Tunis reimagined by Denni...
5m Jun 21, 2025
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Italian ski lift
"I really liked the 'ka-chunk' sounds the ski lift makes as it goes over the uneven parts in the wires, kind of like the sounds trains make going over certain parts of the rails. I pulled one of these sounds out and built it into a longer, compound sound, then used it as one of the beats throughout the piece. "I also used a lower-volume version of the entire long sample from Seceda Mountain, c...
4m Jun 20, 2025
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Sorry I was gone there for a moment
"The field recording I worked with was of an everyday moment; the beeps and clicks of a traffic light, and as soon as I heard it I was singing along, exploring the sounds - it took me away to a place of implied melodies, textures and rhythms - much like incidental sounds sometimes do that in 'real life', whether it's birdsong, a snatch of a melody or the hum of jet engines. It's all inspiration...
3m Jun 20, 2025
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Tick, tick, ticktickticktick
The distinctive ticking of a pedestrian crossing on a busy road in Tallinn, which gets quicker to let you know it's time to cross, and slower when it's time to wait. Recorded in September 2024 by Cities and Memory.
2m Jun 20, 2025
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Ascending on a ski lift
This recording was taken while ascending on a chair ski lift. The mountain is sparse, empty and still with no wind. The only sound is the machinery and distant voices of a few skiers. This was my first trip abroad in 2022 since the COVID-19 pandemic had struck the world. Recorded in Ortisei, Italy by Antek Rutczynski.
6m Jun 20, 2025
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High energy in Mexico: Connecting la Presidenta, the P’urhépecha nation and the university.
 I developed my composition from the gentle hubbub of people inside the echoey library of one of the world’s great universities: the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)— the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In July 2007, UNESCO proclaimed the UNAM Central Library, along with the UNAM Campus as World Heritage sites. The recording was created by Mexican sound recordist par exc...
9m Jun 20, 2025
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Library at UNAM, Mexico City
Library at UNAM. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. Recorded in Mexico City by Erick Ruiz Arellano.
3m Jun 20, 2025
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Harbour life in Oban
A classic soundscape of Oban harbour, starting with serving up langoustines, crabs and mussels in the seafood shack, a walk along the harbour wall and then a huge ferry slowly arrives. Towards the end of the recording, the throbbing drone of the engines blends with the creak of massive mooring ropes straining against the ferry's capstans. Recorded in April 2025 in Oban, Scotland by Cities and...
11m Jun 20, 2025
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Folk songs by the lighthouse
A couple with acoustic guitars entertain themselves - and all the passers-by - singing and playing folk songs underneath the lighthouse in Bremerhaven. Recorded in Bremerhaven, Germany in May 2025 by Cities and Memory.
3m Jun 20, 2025
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Evening at the dam
It's early October 2020, the Australian springtime is in full swing. We are at a beautiful large property in the Tweed Valley, owned by members of our family. Down the hill from the residence, there is a dammed creek bordered on the opposite bank by dense trees of the National Park. It's just getting dark at 6.30pm. Down at the dam the soundscape is alive with a background of cicadas. Closer i...
4m Jun 20, 2025
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Spring ritual
"After listening to the sample, we started working on it isolating the voice, guitar, and other ambient sounds. By manipulating these elements, we created the main synths and textures that form the piece. We instinctively imagined a story centred around an unknown civilisation, witnessing a mysterious ritual, after having created the first synth sound, which you can hear at the very beginning. ...
5m Jun 20, 2025
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Saw Oban on the water
"Since this project is based on the experience of landscapes and memory, starting this immediately intrigued me; while searching through the archive of sound recordings I found one recorded in Oban, Scotland. "I had a memorable visit there once before in summer 1998, and this recording brought back that day in the city, the harbor and the ferry to the islands we visited. The feeling of the pla...
9m Jun 20, 2025
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An evening cacophony
"I listened to the naturescape a few times before becoming inspired to add some instrumentation. Improvising chord progressions at different tempos allowed me to balance between harmony and animal sounds to have their own space. "I collaborated with a long, dear friend of mine who has grown into an excellent producer. We had gone back and forth with our ideas for this track and are proud of wh...
3m Jun 20, 2025
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Beneath Shanghai
Being in Shanghai was strange and beautiful — a blend of wonder and solitude. The culture felt distant, not unfriendly, but quiet in a way I hadn’t expected. In the depths of the metro, people moved like rivers — flowing, efficient, barely speaking. Unlike the crowded noise of European subways, here the sounds were hushed: soft footsteps, the occasional laugh, or a whisper passing between frie...
10m Jun 19, 2025
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Inclusion
"Melodic ambient soundscape, underlined with the voices from the station. Floating pads, atmospheric aesthetics.Esoteric dialogue for a deep diving and emotional layers of kindness." Shanghai metro reimagined by John Ov3rblast.
5m Jun 19, 2025
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Talking bowler hats (my name is Lee Walker)
"A lot of my current work includes text so I was drawn towards this recording of a sound installation of people talking. I edited the original audio so that most of the sound between the speaking was removed. I then put that file through the software that I developed for an earlier work that chops the original audio up into smaller sections and plays those sections back at random times, volumes...
3m Jun 19, 2025
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These hats... are talking
At Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England (the birthplace of prime minister Winston Churchill), there are exhibitions dotted around about ways of life at the palace over the years. The entire stables area is converted into a museum about past ways of life in the grounds, one of which is a series of traditional English bowler hats suspended from the ceiling. Each hat contains a speaker, which p...
2m Jun 19, 2025
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Residue
"I have used the source track recorded in a church in Valletta, which is an ambient recording of a sacred space and created a composite sound piece to show a sound world to reflect inner and outer sacred spaces. The additional sounds are from my own field recordings of woodland sounds, myself and my daughter singing in Merlin's Cave in Tintagel, a heartbeat repeating, and a choir singing at reh...
4m Jun 19, 2025
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Knisja tal-Vitorja
The Our Lady of Victory Church in Valletta, the first church and building completed in the city, carries with it centuries of history and gratitude. Commissioned by Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette in 1566 as a thanksgiving offering after the Great Siege of Malta, its walls have stood as a tribute to both faith and resilience. Today, the church echoes with the sighs of anticipation as peop...
1m Jun 19, 2025
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Dance of the waiter
"I envisioned a hot day in Italy a large square full of restaurants people eating lunch and the waiters movements as they serve the guests. Using sounds from the soundscape as a backdrop with elements pulled out and repeated ,some Foley sounds of my own for table and restaurant atmosphere." Treviso city soundscape reimagined by Al Mavrik.
5m Jun 19, 2025
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The city is quiet
A very hot August afternoon in Treviso, Italy. The city is on its post-lunch break, while the sun is at its hottest - shops are closed, there are very few cars or pedestrians, and everyone is seeking shade. We sit under a tree next to the river and record the sounds of a city a rest in the summer. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Jun 19, 2025
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Protesting on the streets of Paris
A huge, multi-organisation street protest in Paris, France, recorded on 14 December 2024. Multiple groups, ranging from labour rights and workers' organisations to pro-Palestine campaigners march through the city, with music, drumming, dancing, chanting through megaphones and in large groups. This recording comes from close to Barbès–Rochechouart metro station, and you can also hear trains clat...
6m Jun 19, 2025
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At the pace of nature
This recording captures a poignant moment from my time living in one of southern Portugal's most secluded villages. Each evening, the shepherds and their dogs orchestrated a dance around the cattle, a ritual filled with nostalgia and reminiscent of my childhood. In today's rapidly modernizing world, such traditions are sadly fading, making these sounds all the more precious. Recorded in Vilar...
5m Jun 19, 2025
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Amphibians at dawn
This recording captures the dawn amphibian chorus in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. The previous night, a large storm had passed over and immediately after the lake sprung to life with a magnificent (and very intense) frog/toad chorus. The following morning, when I recorded this soundscape, the soundscape was less intense, more dispersed. Birds including Hammer Cobs and Marabou S...
4m Jun 19, 2025
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Riverside before the night
This is an evening recording of the riverside next to my Wife's family dacha - their holiday house in Ukraine on a warm summer evening in 2021. In the recording you hear a rich wildlife of insects, birds and a chorus of frogs beginning their evening calls. You also have sounds of humanity; locals chatting whilst fishing the river and dogs barking from the village across the water. This recordi...
7m Jun 19, 2025
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Veias d’água
This recording captures the serene underwater ambiance of the Fraga da Pena stream in Portugal, just downstream from the waterfall. The tranquil environment was undisturbed by human presence, offering a pure connection with nature. The gentle sounds within the recording are produced by fish navigating the stream, occasionally nibbling at the hydrophone, mistaking it for food. Recorded at Frag...
5m Jun 19, 2025
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Tram 7
Tram route number 7 in Helsinki, from the ferry terminal to the Kamppi shopping centre. Classic tram sounds, Finnish announcements, conversation between two English-speaking women, exiting the tram and the sounds of the tram departing. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
8m Jun 19, 2025
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Baguio Plaza - Loakan public utility jeepney (PUJ) route
A field recording of a Baguio Plaza-Loakan Public Utility Jeepney (PUJ) trip from the Loakan terminal to its terminal in T. Claudio Street, Baguio City. The field recording captured the human and non-human actors that define the soundscape of a Loakan jeepney during its 8-10 kilometre trip. Jeepney is a socio-cultural artifact in Philippine public transportation and a caricature of the everyda...
19m Jun 19, 2025
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Morning rain in Palenque jungle
Morning rain in Palenque jungle. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. Recorded by Erick Ruiz Arellano.
3m Jun 19, 2025
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Inertia network
"As the familiar, rhythmic clatter of the tram on its journey towards Kamppi provides a grounding sense of movement, Karhide, working within Ableton Live, introduces a delicate, almost imperceptible soundscape. The field recording captures muffled Finnish conversations and the soft, synthesized sounds, creating a bed for the piece's minimal elements." Tram ride in Helsinki reimagined by Karhide.
9m Jun 19, 2025
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Hydrographic reverie
"Hydrographic Reverie unfolds as a misted recollection of an ecosystem—not quite remembered, not fully imagined. A morning chorus of frogs and toads, recorded in Uganda, forms the submerged root system of the piece, its polyphonic texture drawn through modular synthesis until it shimmers with unfamiliar light. "Time softens at the edges; pitch flickers like heat rising off water. What remains ...
7m Jun 19, 2025
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Jazz in grunge
"For Jazz in Grunge, I let myself be guided by the original field recording and it's rudeness; both the content and the recording itself are very rootsy, rural and taken from everyday life; water, cows, dogs, wind, with its typical superficial dullness and underlying tension. "I tried, through audio manipulation and composition, to bring these initial characteristics to the forefront, in a con...
3m Jun 19, 2025
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Clouds over Baguio
"This piece is built around a field recording of a jeepney ride through Baguio City, with the original recording being both mixed and processed through my modular synth. "The recording is first played back as an audio file into the Morphagene module to fragment and reassemble its textures. The dry and processed signals mix, evoking the layered chaos of urban transit - voices, engines, and stat...
7m Jun 19, 2025
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So-so
"I drew inspiration for this piece from the serene sounds captured in a field recording done by Ben Gale of life around a river in Ukraine. The tranquility of that moment—especially in light of Ukraine’s current circumstances—moved me to create a soundscape that both contrasts with and complements it. "I was aiming to capture a delicate balance between beauty and unease, and the resilience of ...
4m Jun 19, 2025
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Wave
"All the sounds in this piece were present in the original file. It was a delight to listen again and again to Erick’s recording and find new and surprising sounds each time. "In making this piece I used a tension present in that recording - the calm, incessant rain of the jungle - here reimagined as layers of repeated, wave-like sound - punctured by sporadic individual sounds - a bird calling...
2m Jun 19, 2025
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Fraga da Pena to the Atlantic Ocean
"When I think about Portugal the beaches and the Atlantic Ocean come to my mind. When I heard the silent drops of the sample I had the idea to connect that water source sound-wise to the ocean. "Small bits of the sample (single drops) were taken to create a somewhat random rhythm. A bigger part of the sample was taken and slowed down a lot using Paul Stretch. "The output was fed into two diff...
6m Jun 19, 2025
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Paris
"Just having some fun at 96 BPM in Ableton Live." Protest in Paris reimagined by Hens Zimmerman.
6m Jun 19, 2025
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Memories of the calm waters
"Imagine that you are in a boat or canoe on the river, the water goes here and there, it starts in very calm waters, you listen to the birds and float along. Then, gradually, the voyage becomes slightly more agitated, or is it even changing direction? More waves come and the water run fast, but then suddenly you are in still waters again, back in the calm stillness of nature. "This piece is in...
4m Jun 18, 2025
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Birdsong at St. John River
Birdsong in a quiet rural spot on St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada. According to Birdnet, the species you can hear include the swamp sparrow, eastern Phoebe and Wilson's snipe. Recorded by Cathy McKelvey.
3m Jun 18, 2025
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Lumo
"The sonic landscape of this audio recording felt very familiar to me, reminding me of wind chimes in my childhood home, and the many feathery neighbors who wake me up in the morning with their cheerful chirps. Special thanks to my friend for their help." Abandoned tower in Sao Miguel, Azores reimagined by Anni Elea.
4m Jun 18, 2025
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Nesting in an old antenna
On São Miguel Island in the Azores, there is a decommissioned satellite communication Earth station featuring a 32-metre parabolic antenna. It was once integral to satellite communications, given its strategic mid-Atlantic location. Though it is not explicitly documented, we can assume it became redundant from the mid-1980s onward due to advancements in satellite communication technologies and ...
8m Jun 18, 2025
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Hymn for the holiday rain
"The field recording brought back memories of camping holidays we took in Wales. It always rained (or seemed to). I added additional field recordings of some thunder storms and some drone and voices sounds generated by a selection of synths. The aim was to produce a hymn or lamentation for those wet holiday memories." Nant-Yr-Onnen rainstorm reimagined by Barry Cooper.
11m Jun 18, 2025
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Nant-Yr-Onnen
This recording was captured from the second floor of an open window while it was raining in Wales. The listener can feel the rain drops lick the window sill as they slide to meet the muddy grass down below. Recorded in Nant-Yr-Onnen, Wales by Shaye Thiel.
19m Jun 18, 2025
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Wazirpur industrial
"My initial listening to the source sound evoked strong feelings of nostalgia, (when I was younger, I spent many months travelling around India and stayed in Chandni Chowk near the Wazirpur Industrial Zone a couple of times.) The hubbub of the crowd and general sense of a 'kinetic buzz' would be familiar to anyone who has spent time on the sub-continent. I recalled the feelings of awe and fasci...
4m Jun 18, 2025
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