Get Lucky in Santiago
Outside La Moneda palace in Santiago, the site of so much of Chile's recent history, and tuning in to the ceremonial changing of the guard - with a modern twist, as the accompanying military band breaks into a cover of "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk for the tourists. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
2m Aug 04, 2021
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To the stars
Santiago military band reimagined by David Dasinger. "I wanted to focus on the phrase "to the stars" from the lyrics and give the recording a more ethereal  feeling, a soundtrack for drifting through space and time. I extracted sections of the original recording and used PaulXStretch to sculpt the sound while retaining the essence of the tune."
3m Aug 04, 2021
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Shama above Manoa Cliff Trail
"Melodic Malaysian shama, along with other birds and insects, can be heard. The wind kicks up and starts bamboo clacking on the hillside." Recorded by Gretchen Jude. 
2m Aug 04, 2021
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Ring in the new
Pisa bells reimagined by Nick St. George.  "A bit of a departure for me - something of an academic exercise in sound manipulation. A musician neighbour recently introduced me to "granular synthesis" and, as a result, all of the audio in the piece (bar the poem and a little vinyl surface noise fx at the very end) originates in the field recording.  "This was then processed via "granular" softw...
8m Aug 04, 2021
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There was a day
Hawaiian shama reimagined by Audio Obscura. "I tried making various tracks using this source sound and in the end went for a more stripped down feel.  "There is a beauty to the bird song in the field recording and I wanted that to still have prominence so the rest of the musical backing I tried to keep subtle and not clutter the piece too much."
4m Aug 04, 2021
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Bells from the Leaning Tower
Bells ringing out from the iconic Leaning Tower in Pisa, Italy, recorded by Alberto Trinco.
1m Aug 04, 2021
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In the beginning: a call to life
Tirana mosque prayer reimagined by Mark Taylor.  "The final piece was created using 6 fragments of audio taken from the original field recording – all processed and edited within Omnisphere using its extensive granular synthesis and sampling capability."
2m Aug 04, 2021
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Travelling through Kadikoy by tram
A tram journey in Kadikoy, Istanbul, recorded by Marcel Gnauk. 
3m Aug 03, 2021
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Quadrat
Nepal traffic reimagined by Simon Kennedy. "The more than brilliant Dillon Bastan’s Emit was used for the work. There is no processing at all other than slowing time by 4000%. This study is what I am calling a Ganzfeld audial experiment. Ganzfeld is a Gestalt term describing a phenomenon of perception caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field. The effect is the result o...
13m Aug 03, 2021
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Istanbul transit reimagined
Istanbul trams reimagined by Matthew Zook. "Listening to the original field recording I felt I was actually present on the train. The sounds inspired very real sensations and feelings. Using samples from the original field recording only, I wanted to capture the same transit experience, the same journey, but through a different lens- whether that be manipulating the listener's sense of time(te...
6m Aug 03, 2021
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Added value transit
Saint Petersburg escalator reimagined by dssPower.  "In this piece the Gorkovskaya metro station in St Petersburg Russia is transformed by the addition of past, and future yet-to-be memories of a time when humans were more connected to nature and the Earth that was.  These faint, ancient memories create a yearning for this fragile connection. With the addition of animals like Loons (Northern H...
3m Aug 03, 2021
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Going up!
Field recording from the escalators at Gorkovskaya metro station, Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Masha Sha. 
3m Aug 03, 2021
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Garlands for Than Tao Mahaprom
Bangkok shrine dances reimagined by Vlad Suppish. "Before making a reimagined version of the recording I've watched a few videos about Erawan Shrine and its deity - Than Tao Mahaprom.  "What caught my attention is the amount of offerings to it, especially garlands. Layers upon layers of them.  "Also layers of overpasses above the shrine. Spiritual sanctuary in the heart of large and busy cit...
6m Jul 29, 2021
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Erawan shrine ritual dances, Bangkok
Field recording from Bangkok, Thailand by Shaun Malone. "A recording of several ritual dances at Erawan Shrine, at the corner of a very busy and noisy intersection in central Bangkok. The BTS (skytrain) passes by during the second dance. Recorded 5 Jan 2020."
3m Jul 29, 2021
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Elephant drama
Elephants in Mweya, Uganda, July 2018 recorded by Daan Hendriks. "While in technical terms I don't consider this my "best" recording, it is one of my favourites of the last year due to the intense emotions conveyed by this elephant herd. "It was recorded during an overnight session in the Mweya peninsula of Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, July 2018. I had tracked this herd during the...
6m Jul 29, 2021
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Proboscidean lament
Elephants in Uganda reimagined by Peter Hodgkinson. "Elephants are capable of hearing at low frequencies and are most sensitive at 1 kHz" so the  exploration began figuratively inside the elephant head between the two wondrous ears.  "The original recording is wonderful in itself, but given an emphasis on the infrasound element of the elephant and the rhythms of breath through the trunk, the ...
6m Jul 29, 2021
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Ice, rain, spirit, wind
Thingvellir national park reimagined by Allis Hamilton. "This track is a conversation between midwinter, in my bushland home of Heron Cottage in Southern Australia, with that of the Iceland Thingvellir National Park. It is a song of the elements of rain and ice, wind and spirit.  "The night I first heard the Icelandic track was an evening of an enormous storm, a tornado of sorts, and the reco...
4m Jul 28, 2021
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Stone paths in Thingvellir
Thingvellir National Park, Iceland recorded by Richard Watts. "The sound of the wind, tourists and walking on a stone path."
3m Jul 28, 2021
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Ambient Derry
Foyleside shopping centre reimagined by Nigel Lloyd. "An ambient soundscape using a recording of Foyleside Shopping Centre."
4m Jul 28, 2021
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Life in a shopping centre
Foyleside shopping centre, Northern Ireland, recorded by Nigel Lloyd. "A short recording of Foyleside Shopping Centre in Derry Northern Ireland, which includes cafe and tannoy sounds."
4m Jul 28, 2021
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Ferhadija summer
Kafiche cafe in Sarajevo reimagined by Andy Billington. "The original field recording of a string instrument being played in the city of Ferhadija is beautiful, uplifting and haunting, filled with drones and complex melody lines. You get a sense of the town, people and architecture with the natural reverb. "I wanted to try and capture these architectural parts and capture a sensation you were...
7m Jul 26, 2021
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Mobility, mutability and volatility
Saint Petersburg art exhibition reimagined by Simon Woods. "The piece is built up from the original field recording. Added to this is an ever changing series of sequences, rhythms and sounds – the notes, scales and chords dictated by the original recording.  "The music is constantly changing with new sequences coming in and dropping out – at least one new track (often more) was added each day...
6m Jul 22, 2021
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Laboratory of the future
Recording from the Manege Exhibition Hall in Saint Petersburg, Russia by Valo Tsvetkutia. "The Laboratory of the Future is an exhibition that took place in the "Manege", at which I volunteered at.  "There was an art installation, a piano cut in two, and there was a magnetic coil that is making the sound you hear in the recording."
1m Jul 22, 2021
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Hauntología - noche y hum
Uzbekistan Khiva Star hotel sounds reimagined by Martha Riva Palacio Obón. "Night is a liminal spacetime where, paraphrasing Salomé Voegelin, different rhythms and beings converge creating simultaneously many possible worlds.  "In this brief aural essay, I bring forward the background sounds in the field recording and mix them with a hybrid chorus of human and insect voices. The mechanic hum ...
2m Jul 21, 2021
2m
Orient Star Hotel, Khiva
Soundscape recorded at the Orient Star Hotel in Khiva, Uzbekistan by Mark Wilden.
1m Jul 21, 2021
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Breath(e) in the wires
Klein Karoo nature reserve, South Africa, reimagined by Emmy Tither: "I was inspired by the dry and the dust."
4m Jul 20, 2021
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Klein Karoo nature reserve
Klein Karoo nature reserve, South Africa, recorded by restive. "Field recording made on a recent trip to the Klein Karoo near Ladismith. This was recorded during the day; you can hear the sound of a tractor plowing a field, workers in the fields, water rushing down an irrigation furrow, various bird and frog calls, the occasional car passing on the road."
22m Jul 20, 2021
22m
Jungle
Laos forest sounds reimagined by Martin Juenke. "I took the recording, cleaned and streamlined it, pitched it down a bit to avoid harshness and fatiguing highs and stretched it to an appropriate length.  "Then I added kind of Berlin School arpeggios and harmonies, a layer of pulsing tones and other stuff to create a rich, calm, flowing atmosphere."
4m Jul 19, 2021
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Forest and birds, Laos
Recording from a forest near Luang Prabang, Laos, recorded by Manuel Oberkalmsteiner. "Birds singing in the forest somewhere in the nowhere."
1m Jul 19, 2021
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Holyland 2019
Petra traditional flute music reimagined by Nigel Lloyd. "The reimagined piece is built from a few recordings taken on a trip to Jordan and Israel in 2019. The recordings were mostly from Petra in Jordan during a sound and light show where a man was playing a traditional piece of flute music. "On the long walk down to the building in the accompanying photograph there was an atmospheric drone ...
3m Jul 19, 2021
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Traditional music from the Rose City
Field recording from the famous archaeological site at Petra, Jordan (otherwise known as The Rose City due to its pink sandstone cliffs), during a sound and light show featuring pieces of traditional flute music. Recorded by Nigel Lloyd. 
1m Jul 19, 2021
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Aliens for tennis?
Pyramid of Tirana reimagined by Museleon. "What things do you think of as summer? "Sun, sea, sandcastles, ice creams melting, strawberries and cream and aliens enjoying a competitive game of tennis at Wimbledon… "Hang on there... aliens at Wimbledon? "Starting with the field recording from the Pyramid of Tirana, I heard a tiny sample of what seemed like cutlery or metal clanging, that when ...
3m Jul 18, 2021
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Kalaw shuffle
Burmese monk singing reimagined by Geraint Rhys. "Inspired by the project's title 'remix the world' I didn't want to confine myself to a particular genre, so when I chose this clip I picked it because there was a clear rhythmic musicality to it and allowed that to lead the way.  "I then built the piece around these vocal rhythms allowing it to develop into something which takes in elements of...
3m Jul 18, 2021
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Young monks singing, Kalaw, Burma
"Recording taken during a trek from Kalaw to Inlee Lake, Burma when we passed a small wooden monastery."  Recorded by Manuel Oberkalmsteiner.
1m Jul 18, 2021
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Gull argument at Stair Hole
At the Durdle Door area of outstanding beauty in Dorset, England, the Stair Hole cove is a secluded, reverb-drenched cove tucked away behind the cliffs. The gentle swish of waves blends with the sounds of holidaymakers escaping the 2020 Covid-19 lockdowns, and above that the sounds of gulls wheeling and arguing among themselves is the key feature in the soundscape. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
2m Jul 18, 2021
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World Economic Forum funicular conversations
On board the funicular that descends from SchatzAlp into the town of Davos, we're visiting the 2020 World Economic Forum, and keenly listening in to the types of conversations that take place when the world's business leaders (and corporate marketeers) descend on one small town in Switzerland. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Jul 18, 2021
5m
Undercurrents
Lulworth Cove reimagined by Richard Gadd. "A collective noun for gulls is a squabble which is also descriptive of the noises they make. On the other hand they can soar gracefully arcing in the sky.  "I was struck by the existence of two worlds in the recording, one of the holiday makers and the other more mysterious and enduring of the gulls and the cove itself and the piece is a description ...
6m Jul 18, 2021
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SchatzAlp - Xqui remix
Conversations on board the SchatzAlp funicular at the World Economic Forum in Davos reimagined by Xqui - "experimentations in delay times and quarters."
5m Jul 18, 2021
5m
I went to the woods
Stream at Malham Cove, Yorkshire, England reimagined by Canis Arboris. "It's a soundtrack for journey into the woods. The deeper we get, the more we can separate from everyday world of small, unimportant things, which in turn allows us to dive deep into the space of our own mind. "I approached the piece by playing with two simple chords on electric guitar, then added another layer of guitar o...
6m Jul 14, 2021
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Beneath the cliffs at Malham Cove
Malham Cove is a huge curving amphitheatre-shaped cliff formation of limestone rock about 260 feet high, and is one of the major tourist destinations and beauty spots in the Yorkshire Dales national park in England. At the bottom of the cliffs, the soundscape is calm and the air empty, carrying any sound large distances, and a small trickling stream is the main sonic feature on this quiet day, ...
5m Jul 14, 2021
5m
Soundwalk through the Krc forest
Field recording from the Krč forest, Czech Republic by Kvetoslav Slambor. "A sunny weekend day in the forest located in between the city outskirts and the suburbs. Lot of people come to enjoy the day in the nature, bike through or have a drink at the beer garden on the edge of the forest."
9m Jul 13, 2021
9m
Skrytý
Soundwalk through the Krč forest, Czech Republic, reimagined by Richard Watts. "The original recording is lovely and I didn't want to muck about with it too much so I've created a soundtrack under the original recording. It's supposed to be slightly sinister and take you on a journey."
5m Jul 13, 2021
5m
Underground transmission from Brood X
Brood X cicadas reimagined by Cities and Memory. "The drone of the Brood X cicadas, coupled with the amazing story of how they all appear en masse without warning, brings to mind the idea of the brood as a mysterious alien force emerging from beneath the Earth itself. "This piece imagines a broadcast transmission from Brood X to the human race, crackling out across the shortwave radio frequen...
5m Jul 10, 2021
5m
Brood X cicadas, summer 2021
Audio recording of the Brood X cicadas at their peak in Milford, USA by Andrew Wilkinson.
17m Jul 10, 2021
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Forest shadows
Zealandia nature reserve reimagined by Eulipion Corps. "The field recording was so compelling I knew it had to be the dominant force in the composition. I recorded again with my dad on clarinet and myself on various synths and percussion.  "Our approach was to use the field recording as a portal; allowing us to join the conversation happening at the nature reserve." Image from https://www.fl...
6m Jul 10, 2021
6m
Antifa protest in Portugal, 2020
Antifa protest in Porto from August 2020 recorded by Melissa Pons. "With the far-right winning adepts in Portugal with their nationalistic discourse, the left-wing and the Antifascist Union, organized peaceful and informative protests in response to the death threats perpetrated to some of its members and deputes of the Left Block."
10m Jul 10, 2021
10m
Summer in Portugal
Antifa protest in Porto reimagined by Keisuke Oki. "Summer in Portugal is hot as the people there."
5m Jul 10, 2021
5m
In Zealandia
Recording from Zealandia, New Zealand by Richard Watts "Zealandia is a nature reserve in Wellington. You can hear lots of cicadas and various birds including a Tūī." Image from https://www.flickr.com/photos/like_the_grand_canyon/
3m Jul 10, 2021
3m
Thought score for a railway bar in Montenegro
Rail station bar in Montenegro reimagined by Nicolo Scolieri. "I listened for the spaces in the field recording and added musical gestures with software instruments - I tried to think about reactions and frequencies as a listener.  "Like, if I was in that space, how would my mind be working? Where would my thoughts go? I think making a musical score for a field recording is like that."
2m Jul 07, 2021
2m
At a European railway bar
Atmosphere at a small railway bar at the station in Bar, Montenegro, recorded by Mark Wilden.
3m Jul 07, 2021
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