Great Tom
Oxford lockdown sound reimagined by Ruth Knight.  "My Piece "Great Tom' features the bell 'Great Tom' in Tom Tower at Christ Church College, Oxford. The recording was taken just 30 minutes after Boris Johnson announced the lockdown of the UK. "The recording influenced me massively, it runs the whole way through the piece and acts as the skeleton on which everything is built. I tried to bring ou...
5m May 22, 2020
5m
I.A.
Dubbo, Australia lockdown sounds reimagined by Luca Castaldo. "My piece is called I.A.That in Italian means the same as A.I.(artificial intelligence)and it's just a name. In this work i enjoyed overturning the perspective of a natural, good word opposed to a bad artificial world and create an alien planet in which artificial sounds live together with planet earth natural sounds. "An imaginary f...
4m May 22, 2020
4m
To Save Paris in a Day
Paris lockdown sound reimagined by Vlad Suppish.  "When first heard this field recording I was inclined to make some intricate rhythms with those claps.  "Main source of inspiration were konnakol rhythms of India, which are made often with claps. Also I was inspired by Coil - 'Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night'.  "But the name of my composition is sort of an antith...
7m May 22, 2020
7m
Big friendly giant
Helsinki lockdown sound (storytelling for socially-distanced children) reimagined by WHΛLTHISИEY. "A good spoken word piece always inspires me." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
8m May 22, 2020
8m
A guitar in the snow
Swedish lockdown sound reimagined by Nick St. George.  "A rare piece for me, in that there is no spoken word and no narrative! I was inspired by the field recording to simply create an adventure in sound. Maybe this was because the original audio was 'musical'... I did add some blizzard FX to reflect its Swedish wintry origins, but much of the piece is the original audio plus treated versions t...
5m May 22, 2020
5m
Wind is free energy
Oxford lockdown sound reimagined by Eva Mansson. "Without air, we cannot breathe.  "The wind, unlike so many other sources of energy, is free and never ending. "Combining the drone of a wind turbine in Oxford with my own whistling (breath), two sounds in all, my re-mix is an attempt to capture some of the essence of this energy we all take for granted, but that a virus is doing it’s best to tak...
6m May 22, 2020
6m
Alfama_soundwalk {AN} EeL remix)
Lisbon lockdown sound reimagined by {AN} EeL. "It was interesting to me hearing some of the patterns in the recording, and in my mix I was wanting to place emphasis (albeit subtly so) on some of the repeated patterns that I heard." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://ww...
4m May 22, 2020
4m
Covid Station
Grand Central, New York lockdown sound reimagined by Ariel Mioduser. "I found this sound so appealing because Grand Central station represents in a way such an opposite to the situation we’re going through now – one of social distancing, almost complete closure of the city and the cultural life, and limited freedom of movement. "In addition, the sound and content of the Covid announcements that...
6m May 22, 2020
6m
Three Quarantine Mirages
Californian lockdown sound reimagined by John Roach. "At first I was drawn to these sounds, recorded by Nathan Moody, because they were captured in Northern California where I grew up, geographically and mentally far away from Queens NY, the Covid capital of the USA, where I reside now.  Doing some research I learned that the recordist is also a hiker and so I've imagined an early evening trek ...
13m May 22, 2020
13m
808 Take
Mexican lockdown sound reimagined by Bassling. "It was fascinating to hear the trumpet and drum beat traveling around the city. There are only a few times of the year when you'd hear a musical performance on the streets in my town. I enjoyed the sense that musicians were connecting people and sharing their energy. "That sense of energy was something I wanted to amplify and I thought the sound o...
3m May 22, 2020
3m
Slow-moving freight train
New York lockdown sound recorded by John Roach. "Traffic - that's what you usually hear when you record in NYC. I decided to use this Covid traffic-lull to go out and capture sounds. The irony is that this is just a different kind of car: a very slow moving freight train in Glendale Queens, NY. Listen for all of the textures as the train comes to a stop and then starts up again. Followed by a b...
7m May 22, 2020
7m
Hyla Chrysoscelus
North Carolina, USA lockdown sound recorded by Angela Winter. "Nighttime on a candlelit porch in North Carolina. My husband and I were talking over a chorus of frogs when suddenly we heard one unlike any we'd heard before.  "What was that strange sound? I recorded a bit of audio and titled it "Freaky Frogs Maybe Aliens," as I joked about UFOs coming to get us all, finally. A few minutes later, ...
1m May 22, 2020
1m
Birds of Manizales
Manizales, Colombia lockdown sounds recorded by Daniela Zuluaga. "We have been in lockdown for about 2 months. Our region has the greatest bird diversity in the world and after 15 days in lockdown we started seeing bird species we don't usually see around. This is the sound of them, nature and us coexisting in a beautiful way, as it should be always. Sharing our planet, that belong to us all." ...
1m May 22, 2020
1m
Students anew
Bradenton, USA lockdown sound recorded by Gabriel Joseph McDerment. "This sound was recorded in the student parking lot of my high school in the minutes after what would have been the time right after school was released on a normal weekday. If COVID-19 did not happen, then this would be one of the busiest times in the lot. In this time when the wind blows against us, we can still hear the cons...
2m May 22, 2020
2m
Wichita in quarantine rain
Wichita, USA lockdown sound recorded by Mary Alexis Wirths. "Recorded from my downtown apartment where usually even in rain there are a variety of sounds. Cars, motorcycles, people, and sirens all echo through the streets but as the city dives deeper and deeper into quarantine it grows more and more quiet. Today in the rain all that can be heard is the raindrops beating against a window pain an...
3m May 19, 2020
3m
Morning greetings of Korean birds
South Korean lockdown sound recorded by Rebecca Ghim. "Korea is not under lockdown, so other than schools, everything is functioning as normal. The reason why we were able to cope with the virus without closing the borders or lockdowns, is because we have the government track the positive patients' recent routes and notifying the citizens in that area. That way people can be tested if they had ...
1m May 18, 2020
1m
The noise of the corridor
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Laura Costa. "Everyone is in the building that I'm living, and when I get out in the corridor, it's so loud in contrast to the street, where I just hear the sound of the bicycles, the only thing that is present outside. But in my corridor I hear everything, families, dogs, children, and I don't feel so lonely after all." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, d...
2m May 18, 2020
2m
Learning to cook in quarantine
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Stefany Silva. "We need to guard against this situation." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
3m May 18, 2020
3m
The sunrise
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Matheus Brasil. "Sounds of a morning, that in the middle of the chaos of a pandemic, still people working, the noise of birds and cars complementing the environment." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
3m May 18, 2020
3m
Outside my window, Brasilia
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Romulo Oliveira.  "Outside my window - A lot of cars, not a lot of people. But that's still not enough." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
1m May 15, 2020
1m
Quiet neighbourhood
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Luis. "We are sad, but we keep optimistic. In this audio, we only hear the dogs barking, that's how quiet the streets are." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
1m May 15, 2020
1m
Eating Cheetos
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Isabella Lootens. "I have been quarantining now for 2 months. It has been kind of hard and sad, I'm a very sociable person so staying at home for this long is very uncomfortable for me. Eating has been one of the few happy things, especially eating unhealthy snack like cheetos (!) As for my country and community things have been very intense.  "I live in Braz...
27s May 15, 2020
27s
Fim de tarde em quarentena
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Letitia Gomes. "Approximately 6 pm on May 15, 2020, next to parking lot 8 of Parque da Cidade. Cat playing on the grass near the recording device, bell rings nearby, moderate wind, motorcycle passes by." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.cities...
3m May 15, 2020
3m
Quarantined supermarket
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Diego de Leon. "A rare visit to the supermarket during quarantine." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
2m May 15, 2020
2m
Backyard sounds from Brasilia
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Marcelo Pedroso. "It's the sound of my backyard during many times of the day. Doing that made me think how nature is living on normally and probably better since there are less humans to pollute the environment. Not just in Brazil but in the entire world." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around th...
6m May 15, 2020
6m
Rural flight
Gavião de Rodão, Portugal lockdown sound recorded by Rita Correia. "Our house was in the centre of Lisbon, until a year ago when my dad decided to change his life and moved to the countryside. My grandparents live close by, in another village, so it was often that I came to visit and as I growed up I enjoyed the quietness above all.   "My grandparents show a lot of gratitude for their quiet liv...
4m May 15, 2020
4m
Locked inside as the world is still moving
Ceilandia, Brazil lockdown sound recorded by Thais Stephannie Freitas. "I'm a teacher and a student, when quarantine started I began to spend most of my time in my office in front of a computer. My desk is in front of window, so I often listen to what's happening outside and can look at a nice view. On the recording you can listen to me working as multiple vehicles pass on the streets near my b...
3m May 15, 2020
3m
Sounds from my window, Brasilia
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Nathalia B.  "Sound comes from my room in the morning. My country is divided between people who care about health and the crazy people who follow my country's irresponsible president. Coming from me and my family, we are having the responsibility to maintain our health and those of the people we come into contact with, always maintaining what health helps us,...
5m May 15, 2020
5m
Wind machines
Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Joao Cavalcante Jose de Morais. "I need to use two fans so I can get my room cool enough so I can work on my computer without even so much as burning my fingers, so that's that. My country's president is a murderous genocide which will kill us all with coronavirus by making the population think it is nothing to worry about." Part of the #StayHomeSounds projec...
2m May 15, 2020
2m
Birdsong during lockdown
Brighton, UK lockdown sound recorded by Vicky Roupa. "On a morning walk not far from home, I noticed how audibly the birds were singing. Living close to a busy road, I'd been aware of birdsong in previous years but it had been largely drowned out by passing traffic. This spring has been completely different in this respect, as in so many others. It seems that by suppressing human activity, the ...
3m May 15, 2020
3m
The halo of sound
Cartmel Priory bells reimagined by Karst. "When I made the field recording I was particularly inspired by the halo of sound that hovers over the bells and the priory, there's an incredible energy in the sound that I wanted to try and capture. Having said that, the real and processed versions are pretty different!  "The reimagined version was made from several elements of the field recording com...
4m May 11, 2020
4m
Cartmel Priory bells
Field recording from Cumbria, UK by Karst. "The field recording of the bell ringing at Cartmel Priory was made on the morning of 27th May 2018 before Sunday worship."
5m May 11, 2020
5m
Mid-morning coffee with Grandma and conversations about marriage
São Domingos de Rana, Portugal lockdown sound recorded by Leonor Carmo. "3rd of May, 2020. It's Mother's Day in Portugal. Three generations of women — grandmother (87), mother (60) and daughter (20) — share a mid-morning snack of espresso coffee (in beautiful Chinese porcelain cups) and Portuguese custard tarts in the backyard. The day feels strangely like summer: the birds are singing, the poo...
3m May 11, 2020
3m
Sirens in Copenhagen
Copenhagen lockdown sound recorded by Tim Hinman. "This recording is of the yearly test of the citywide emergency siren system reserved for major emergencies, times of war etc. This year it comes in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, which - though easing greatly at this point - renders it oddly significant this year." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global c...
10m May 11, 2020
10m
The changing social life of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark lockdown sound recorded by Thomas Lewin. "On a typical weekday night this corner in the Nørrebro neighborhood of Copenhagen is bustling with folks socializing outside bars, friendly football leagues filling the pitches across the street, cyclists, and pedestrians. Now the restaurants, shops, and bars are empty, only a few families kick around a football, and traffic levels h...
20m May 11, 2020
20m
Applause for the doctors
Murcia, Spain lockdown sound recorded by Natalia Valverde.  "Listening to this soundscape, I am very emotional when I remember the whole situation we are living through because of the Covid-19, at the same time that it comforts me to know that, we are carrying out a show of support to all those who are fighting against this epidemic." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds ...
2m May 11, 2020
2m
Call to prayer, Minneapolis
Minneapolis, USA lockdown sound recorded by Katharine Horowitz. "In order to maintain stay-at-home orders, Minneapolis issued a permit for a mosque in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood to broadcast the "adhan" during Ramadan so that Muslims can still pray, but do so safely apart. This recording was made at 5pm on May 7, 2020. The prayer can be heard starting at 2:52." Part of the #StayHomeSounds...
7m May 11, 2020
7m
A single sedge warbler, a small migrant bird, with its rasping along with occasional bee, woodpecker
Pershore, England lockdown sound recorded by Jayne Lewis. "Behind where I live are the community meadows. Everyday people are walking across the meadows and parallel ‘people tracks’ are being marked through knee high buttercups. Today I saw three cygnets hatch beneath a swan who has been sitting each day for six weeks. People have shown such engaged protective interest in the two breeding pairs...
3m May 11, 2020
3m
Essenzialità armonica
Ascoli Piceno, Italy lockdown sound recorded by Miriam Alameddine. "The rhythm of sounds from my balcony in Italy is changing...in something powerful. "Is this our opportunity to discover what is really essential?" Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
5m May 11, 2020
5m
Zero milestone
Washington DC lockdown sound recorded by William McKenna.  "I started working from home on March 19th when it became more than obvious that we all had to isolate ourselves. 3 weeks later, I had to get out of my apartment. I went for a relatively long walk with no real plan other than to take my cameras to capture some images (photos and video) of what has become a Ghost Town. I almost immediate...
4m May 11, 2020
4m
Stormy day, Murcia
Murcia, Spain lockdown sound recorded by Natalia Valverde. "When I listen to the sound of the rain, it gives me a feeling of relaxation, and I find that pleasant. Also when I play this landscape I remember that smell that the rain leaves when it falls on the earth, called petrichor." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world ...
3m May 11, 2020
3m
Exercising during lockdown with Joe Wicks
Dublin lockdown sound recorded by Rupert Cox. "Access to a garden and daily exercise has eased the stress of the Coronavirus lockdown in Dublin for two teenage boys who follow Joe Wicks's routines on-line and practise basketball skills while stuck at home." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see...
2m May 11, 2020
2m
#StayHomeSounds interview on The World
Originally broadcast on 6 May 2020 on The World, Stuart Fowkes discusses collecting the sounds of the Covid-19 lockdown from around the world, and how the sounds of our cities are changing in the current pandemic. 
4m May 07, 2020
4m
Great Tom in lockdown
Oxford lockdown sound recorded by Cities and Memory. "The bells of Great Tom ring 101 times at 9.05pm every night in central Oxford - a tradition going back centuries. "We recorded this sound on the night a lockdown across the UK was announced, and we could still hear kebab vans, taxis, buses and plenty of passers-by.  "As a comparative recording, we returned to Christ Church College to record ...
5m May 06, 2020
5m
Iron Man and Guardians of the Galaxy at the Bodleian Library
Oxford lockdown sound recorded by Cities and Memory. "The Bodleian Libraries are one of the most famous libraries on the planet, and they sit at the very centre of the city of Oxford. Tonight, we went out to record the sounds around the Bodleian during the Covid-19 lockdown.  "Broad Street is usually a busy thoroughfare, with popular pubs spilling their customers out onto the street, students a...
8m May 06, 2020
8m
The sound of old books being cared for
Oxford lockdown sound recorded by Cities and Memory. "The Radcliffe Camera is one of the most famous libraries in the world, and a centrepiece of the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University. It's a beautiful building that is usually surrounded by tourists, even relatively late at night, and it sits close to Oxford High Street, so there's usually a buzz of people but also a drone of traffic. "No...
9m May 06, 2020
9m
Birds waking up, Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh lockdown sound recorded by youKnowWho. "This sound was recorded between the dark sky and until the sun light was easily seen. You can hear many types of birds talking to each other. You can notice few cars too." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory....
5m May 05, 2020
5m
Quarantine: an introduction (Milan)
Milan, Italy lockdown sound recorded by Loundscape. "Don't trash those moments. Keep in mind the memories of the quarantine." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
3m May 05, 2020
3m
Backyard quarantine in Lisbon
Lisbon lockdown sound recorded by Xavier Ovidio. "This sound was recorded from the backyard of my apartment that is usually a noisy place since its possible to ear the cars and ambulances crossing one of the main avenues towards the city centre, Av. Almirante Reis, and a lot of planes since we have the airport in the city.  "With the confinement the sounds I ear now are birds, some house noises...
6m May 05, 2020
6m
Los pájaros cantando y las campanas sonando
Murcia, Spain lockdown sound recorded by Leonor Martínez. "These sounds remind me of the tranquility of confinement and how something that we have been destroying for years is regenerating in just a few months, but that's not why we should stop taking care of the planet, what's more, now is when we really have to take care of the environment." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting th...
2m May 05, 2020
2m