She landed on her pinky toe and she froze it (sketch)
"The fieldrecording of an art fair inspired me to think about the art world and the social event of an opening itself. A word to Text AI discovered some words in the mumbling. Those became the text line of my sketch. I call it a sketch because my goal is to perform it with a real choir." Madison art fair reimagined by Anna Schimkat.
3m May 15, 2023
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Traditional cafe, Tunisia
"I have kept the main chatter of the cafe echoed  and slightly adjusted repeats of the chatter and added some music to give ambience which I like to feel gives the sense of moving around the cafe." Cafe in Mahdia reimagined by Stuart Renshaw.
2m May 15, 2023
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Exploring the art fair, Madison
Recorded discreetly on July 9th, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA while walking though a crowed art fair using a pair of LOM mikroUši Pro microphones. Recorded by Daniel Braun.
12m May 15, 2023
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Street vendors in Ho Chi Min City
Banh mi SaiGon seller sound, Banh gio seller sound, Hot ga nuong seller sound and ve chai seller sound in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam. Recorded by Maei.
1m May 15, 2023
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Symphony in celebration of the Montgolfier brothers
"A composition built around the concept of ascension, using a field recording of a hot air balloon ride. "At each blast of the burner, the balloon rises, and the composition responds by building in a new layer of sound. "The palette of sounds has been kept to spacious, airy synth pads, open brass notes and a colouring of piano notes and strings to communicate height, space, freedom and to vis...
5m May 13, 2023
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Love to lose you with me
"I really thought about the ambience of the original recording , the setting and what kind of memories it triggered. I wanted the track to be really earthy with acoustic instruments and singing. A song if you like. It reminded me of the feeling you get when meeting a fellow traveller, a kindred spirit, which, at the time,  seems so improbable in the grand scheme of things. The words came as th...
5m May 13, 2023
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Holy land
"The record brought a feeling of the ancient and modern synergising to create a blend of culture that attracts modernity towards it rather than fading. The processed recording acts as an instruments that blends with various traditional instruments from the world." Western Wall, Jerusalem reimagined by Wahinya Mwirikia (Riqi).
3m May 13, 2023
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Melodies and critters, Koforidua, Ghana
Repetitive melodious calls of insects in distinctive channels recorded at a roadside in the evening. Distant frogs, human voices, movements, autos and distant music can be heard. The beautiful melodies of the insects in the foreground are marred by loud entertainment centres near quiet settlements. There is however an idea to involve the community in listening to these melodies in archived for...
2m May 13, 2023
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Shabbat at the Western Wall, Jerusalem
Men audibly praying at the Western Wall which is particularly quiet other than the occasional shuffle of seats and prominent birds chirping at the site. Men and women are separated upon entry to the wall so the chanting men sound further off in the distance. Recorded by Rebecca Goldberg.
2m May 13, 2023
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City of imagined memory
"For me Alexandria is a city of nostalgic imagination, the dream of a lost cosmopolitan world. I've mixed the recording with "Voices," a poem by the Greek Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy, read in 1972  by the painter Yiannis Tsarouchis, and lapped two of the city's other languages against it like the waves. The French version is my adaptation; the English one  is by Daniel Mendelsohn. I am ...
5m May 13, 2023
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The children's festival
"The lingering sound of an event that one has missed. The manufactured memory of a person who has, in fact, failed to experience the performance at all. The text, spoken for me by Pham Jatabut, reads: I fought traffic for over an hour to get there how was I supposed to know that there would be construction? when I finally arrived it had ended all that was left was the debris of discarded foo...
3m May 13, 2023
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Mass bells (Andy Lyon mechanical breakdown reimagining)
"I couldn't get my original idea to create orchestration around the bells to work at all. So I used the rhythmic element of bells in a percussive way.  I created a groove with Shaperbox and layered glitchy, percussive and delayed bell sounds over the top.  It's quite chaotic at times with sync'd and freeform sounds creating variations in rhythm with glitch and stutter elements." Padova mass be...
5m May 13, 2023
5m
Christmas Eve mass bells, Padova
Mass bells heard at 7pm on Christmas Eve 2022 from multiple cathedrals at the same time in Padova, Italy. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m May 13, 2023
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Children's musical performance, Samui night market
A children's ensemble led by a teacher performs folk music at the Lamai Night Market on Koh Samui in Thailand in May 2017, Thailand, where about 20 children in festive folk costumes perform folk music before entering the market. In addition to the musicians, we hear people passing by. Recorded by Grigory. IMAGE: calflier001, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via W...
2m May 13, 2023
2m
Floß Fleisch Fluss
The original Cities and Memory sample inspired the creation of this work about ship wreck. Telemetry gathered from ocean buoys at the location of a well documented 19th century ship wreck is used to ‘notate’ the sound work, modulating parameters such as key, timbre, pitch, pan and velocity. Consider the telemetry as a field recording informing the creation of the work. This 20 minute version o...
20m May 13, 2023
20m
De laatste gans - wild goose chase mix
"I chose my recording at random. Upon looking at the title, I imagined a quaint parade of geese, being marched around a town, as is the custom in the ‘ganzenfanfare’ seen in some Dutch and Belgian towns…. I couldn’t have been more wrong… The goose here is suspended  upside down from a sort of gallows, with it’s neck well buttered, the  ‘ganzenrijden’ or goose riders are men on horseback who ga...
7m May 13, 2023
7m
Traditional goose riding ceremony, Belgium
Goose-riding is a popular entertainment game that belongs to the early medieval games of torment with animals that were then widespread in the countryside of Northwestern Europe. These games came in various forms, but at the beginning of the 21st century, it is mainly goose riding on horseback that is concerned. In the Middle Ages, the games were rather rough and a live goose was used. In the p...
19m May 13, 2023
19m
Sonata in Cb major for river and strings with modulation
"I started with the core recording and layered it until it was dense, before using the texture to inspire the chordal/ melodic structure." Neretva river reimagined by Michael Lilley.
6m May 13, 2023
6m
Birds singing behind the planes
"I used the original field recording and stretched it in several ways using Paul's Extreme stretch software. I also crop the sound in small samples to make rhythms with it and finally i processed it with a hardware sampler. Then I mixed the results with some real instruments, an electric keyboard, a flute and a melodica as well as some bass sounds and synths. The tiltle of the piece refers to a...
7m May 13, 2023
7m
Yellow-chested birds, Bermuda
A species of noisy yellow-chested birds in St. George, Bermuda. Recorded by Mark Wilden.
2m May 13, 2023
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The chaos of an airport, Denver
Ambience from Denver International airport, including rolling bags, security clearance, checkins, beeping sounds and the sounds of lots of passengers making for a very busy soundscape. Recorded by Marcel Gnauk. IMAGE: Peterquinn925, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
2m May 13, 2023
2m
El trono vacante
"This piece is a collaboration between Cristian Estrella (It Rises All Nectar), and the Catalan guitarist Javi Alcalá. It was composed in Carcassonne (France), recorded in Barcelona, and mixed and mastered in Plovan (France). "The original idea was to use the soundscape as a painting, with which different elements could be joined together. The birds, originally recorded in the Gatwick Airport ...
5m May 12, 2023
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çԋ⋀Иț
"Drums and voice are both universal elements in human music, which made them ideal to use in the context of the Void Sigil project. To mirror the hypnotic and hypnagogic properties of the original recording, I tried to lean into a more trance-like atmosphere in my reimagining." London Hare Krishna band reimagined by Angus Hull / Void Sigil.
4m May 12, 2023
4m
Devil's engine
"I didn’t have any preconceptions or ideas for the piece I would like to make prior to listening to the sound, as I wanted to avoid confining the piece within any predefined structure, theme or vibe. "Listening to the sound of the boat motor changing pitch, density and volume, interspersed by conversations in a language unknown to me, I decided to temporally stretch the sound, i.e. make it sev...
9m May 12, 2023
9m
Biodiversity at Gatwick Airport
Gatwick Airport has 75 hectares dedicated to nature and biodiversity - here we listen to linnet, song thrush and chiff chaff singing in the airport's western biodiversity zone. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
1m May 12, 2023
1m
Traditional red phone box in London
One of the few remaining iconic red London telephone boxes that still contains a functioning pay phone rings out on a weekday afternoon. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
1m May 12, 2023
1m
Hare Krishna band at the Royal Albert Hall
A Hare Krishna troupe performs in the rain outside the Royal Albert Hall in London for visitors attending the Killing Joke performance, March 2023. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m May 12, 2023
4m
Who's there?
"The field sample of the phone ringing but nobody answering conveys a sense of loneliness that speaks to me. The soundscape I painted tries to capture the feeling of life happening all around me, but nobody is really there." London phone box reimagined by Jenn Howd.
3m May 12, 2023
3m
Theme to insects, amphibians and voices by a roadside
"I took a few excerpts of the wildlife sounds, treated those, then built the music up with acoustic instruments and a lo-fi kalimba sample. I was aiming to create and then process sounds to complement the ambience of the original recording, which plays throughout most of the piece, and to add my own 'creatures' into the mix. That said, I just really like frogs. I spend a quantity of time taking...
5m May 12, 2023
5m
Wellmonster
"I chose this recording because it was made less than a mile from my house and I also visited the well during lockdown with my family - making the most of some bad times! I tried to add to the feeling of being inside the well, listening to birdsong etc whilst being surrounded by dripping water. I mixed the raw field recording with a half speed version run through the "Treemonster" effect in Bit...
6m May 12, 2023
6m
Bastille Market calling
"I love this sample of the Colin Hunter Bastille Market -- the sounds of the voices calling out is so powerful -- they're trying to create sales, and they're trying to sell food, so fundamental. Working with this piece, I time stretched it so that the sounds are drawn out as if they continue live for a time. I also chopped up the sample through an interesting M4L device in Ableton to give the s...
12m May 12, 2023
12m
Before and after the protest (Pancras station)
"The musical theme is based on the powerful cadence of the speakers voice at the Kurdistan protest at Pancras station in London England.The composition includes fragments of the every "day to day" hustle and bustle, to the tension of the protest and the lingering memories resonating throughout the space." London protest reimagined by David Leith.
4m May 12, 2023
4m
Insect and amphibian voices by a roadside in Ghana
Melodious and pulsating calls and voices of insects and frogs by the side of a road under construction in the Bonya community in the year 2021. Occasional autos, human voices, and light music can be heard far and near. Recorded by Samuel Kudjodzi.
3m May 12, 2023
3m
Pro-Kurdistan protest, King's Cross
A pro-Kurdistan protest recorded outside King's Cross station in London, 2022. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
3m May 12, 2023
3m
Inside the Alice in Wonderland well
Sounds from inside the well that inspired part of the Alice in Wonderland story by Lewis Carroll, recorded in the peace and quiet of the April 2020 lockdown. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m May 12, 2023
5m
Common sensory overload
"Vocal samples can be really fun to work with in musical pieces. This is what stood out to me in this particular field recording. There was a lot vocal material to choose from that included interesting phrases and ideas that were very thought-provoking. I wanted the vocals to sort of lead the piece and have the music moving around them to create a dreamlike feel to them that lingered, represent...
6m May 11, 2023
6m
Campo San Barnaba - all in
"When I listened to the source field recording, which contains many different voices, it became clear that I wanted to add more voices, singing voices, my voice. Then a man in the recording says " Können Sie das nochmal machen" (it is german and means : can you do it again) "Sure!" I thought and of course I had to repeat parts of the file. I did not use any equalisers or filters on the original...
4m May 11, 2023
4m
Koforidua
"An ongoing pulsating nature buzz that dominates the recording portrays a rich sonic environment. This textural richness is gradually demonstrated in the work, which consists of spectrally analyzed parts. The work unravels through fragmented narrative references to suspicious activity near a marshland. The piece could work as a three-movement soundtrack to a short film that involves a script wi...
7m May 11, 2023
7m
Confluences
For a while now, I have been strongly pulled towards investigating the possibilities of using feedback from natural sources combined with digital sound-tools in order to trigger and generate collaborative bio-melodies. So this remix brief seemed like an excellent excuse to begin to tentatively explore some of these ideas further. Using a fair bit of persistent coaxing and with a combination of...
3m May 11, 2023
3m
Video installation at Home, Manchester
A video and sound installation at Home in Manchester, February 2023, with an interesting accompanying soundscape crested by a member of 808 State. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m May 11, 2023
5m
Suburban Ghana soundscape - the pond
Binaural recording at dawn: Melodious vocalisation of frogs and insects in diverse densities and depths of field, granular textures of individual toads and frogs in the foreground. Subtle prayer calls of a Muezzin in the right channel. *Intense melodious calls of frogs join in for a short period in the 9th minute. Recorded in Koforidua, Ghana by Samuel Kudjodzi.
18m May 11, 2023
18m
Campo San Barnaba, Venice on Good Friday
The typical sounds of a busy piazza (known as a campo) in Venice, with two or three bars full of customers, passers-by, dogs and occasional boat traffic. Binaural recording. Recorded by Cities and Memory on Good Friday, April 2023.
2m May 11, 2023
2m
Binaural layered stream, Vicenza
A binaural recording of a weir stream that runs at two different levels, in Parco Querini in the city centre of Vicenza, Italy.
3m May 11, 2023
3m
Harmonia
"I felt inspired by the unusual bird call in the original recording and used it as a starting point, editing it into distinct notes and making a melody out of it. Then adding some instruments, such as electronic vibraphone, and vocals to harmonize with it, as well as harmonica and recorder to make different melodies that would fit. I also used sounds of cicadas and other birds from the original...
5m May 10, 2023
5m
Waiting for the T train
"I wanted to use the recording as a whole unedited. I set myself a limited amount of time to respond to the work in the moment, using the source sound like another musician. I found that I focused on echoing, shadowing and building on the sounds that were there.  I feel like I definitely had in mind the idea of waiting, there's a slightly eerie mood, those echoes and shadows bringing to the for...
5m May 10, 2023
5m
Birdsong in the Thai jungle
In the jungles of Thailand, in the center of Koh Samui, we hear not only the singing of a bird, but also other sounds: some kind of transport, other animals, but the singing of a bird remains unchanged against the background of all other sounds. Recorded by Grigory B.
1m May 10, 2023
1m
Waiting for the T train, Boston
Waiting for The "T" at Copley Station, Boston. Wind, mechanics, bells and light conversation fill the air in the middle of the day waiting for the train. Recorded by Rebecca Goldberg. IMAGE: Adam E. Moreira, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
5m May 10, 2023
5m
Already I have told you about the wide rivers
"A watery theme runs through this, with a title taken from Joan Didion's 1965 essay “Notes from a Native Daughter”. My first recordings with a stereo guitar effects set-up seemed to fit the hydrophone recording made in February 2022, in addition to which I grew up on a riverbank." Winkwell Lock reimagined by Plastic Beam.
6m May 08, 2023
6m
Hydrophone at Winkwell Lock
An underwater recording made at Lock 59 of the UK’s Grand Union Canal via a home-made hydrophone. Recorded by Andrew Petrie.
1m May 08, 2023
1m
The conjuror
"The recording's focus on sound was an inspiration, as was the tour guide's description of himself as a conductor and the museum visitors as instruments. He seemed a bit like a magician conjuring a thunderstorm, so I augmented the sounds of the participants with recordings of rainstorms to enhance the effect. I added some piano to create a bit of tension and lend a slightly sinister air to this...
5m May 08, 2023
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