Call to prayer at the floating village
A call to prayer at the Bang Phat floating village in Thailand, known for its "floating" houses on stilts and a simple fishing community. Recorded by Jake Edwards.
3m Dec 18, 2025
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Cuckoos
"I used the cuckoos as a backdrop for a story about death in the forest, of disappearing back into the earth and how that would feel. I wanted it to sound sort of dreamy and slightly off balance." Cuckoos in Tomintoul, Scotland reimagined by Dermot Fitzsimons.
5m Dec 18, 2025
5m
Cuckoos at dawn
A soundscape of a particularly misty morning, recorded at 4.12am during late spring from the observing window of the Tomintoul Bird Hide. The hide sits on the edge of the highest village in the Highlands of Scotland. The calls of cuckoos create an eerie presence that gives depths to the length of the surrounding valley. Along with the days awakening dawn chorus, loud insects chirping, a brash ...
3m Dec 18, 2025
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Beneath the swell, she echoes
"Beneath the swell, she echoes emerged from Marcelo Carneiro’s evocative field recording of the Iemanjá Day celebration—its textures, rhythms, and atmosphere opened a doorway to memory. I was drawn to create it through a long-standing connection to Brazilian music and culture. Many years ago, while singing with a Brazilian percussion group in Scotland and collaborating with Brazilian musicians ...
5m Dec 18, 2025
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Praia Vermelha 01
This is the first edition of a recording I've made in the 2024 summer afternoon at the beach. It was made at Praia Vermelha (Red Beach), Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was a hot weather, the beach was crowded: children, families, young and elder people, vendors selling drinks and refreshments (water, cold mate, coconut water, popsicle, and so on). People are talking, laughing, shouting. Waves...
3m Dec 18, 2025
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Some distance from the city
"The sound of a train in the distance on a quiet beautiful morning makes me think of possibility and freedom. But I was thinking about how others may hear something different, or it might not be a positive association for everyone, depending on how free you are, or what's truly possible. In the old days I had an idea of America and its wide open spaces as a place where people were free and ever...
6m Dec 18, 2025
6m
Early morning, Savannah Garden City
It’s early morning in what seems to be a quiet suburb of Georgia. People are still asleep, but you the rumble of industry never stops, cars flying down nearby highways and the signalling and occasional hoots of trains passing through. The birds wake up and follow suit. Garden City is a city is known for its industrial hub and proximity to the Port of Savannah. The rumble of trains reminds you ...
3m Dec 18, 2025
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I found the presence
"This piece struck me because of the background drone of echoed speech and mechanical sounds with some melodic content (possibly an elevator chime, since looking into the site I found that the Hannover Rathaus has a well-known arched elevator that curves with the dome of the building). "I built the fundamentals of the piece around those notes and some audible German and English phrases, includ...
3m Dec 18, 2025
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Reverb in the Rathaus
A soundwalk around the heavily-reverbed impressive interior of Hannover's Neues Rathaus. Huge, reverby echo caused by the voices and footsteps of just a few visitors. Recorded by Cities and Memory, May 2025.
5m Dec 18, 2025
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Skye waves / Midnight mariner
"Scotland has always had a strong pull on my imagination and I've always wanted to visit. This sound file was my first choice from the many offered by Cities & Memory for their Autumn Project. Coincidentally, this past summer, while vacationing with my family in Assateague, Virginia, I made a recording of the ocean shore while standing on the beach. When I began the Autumn Project, I decided to...
6m Dec 18, 2025
6m
Chirping into daylight
A dawn soundscape in the heart of Vietnam’s lowland forest, where the awakening of countless birds marks the start of a new day. The air fills with the diverse chorus of chirps, calls, and rustling, as various species gradually come to life. Cat Tien Park, Vietnam recorded by Rafael Diogo.
6m Dec 18, 2025
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Vienna drum and bass on a bike (liquid pedal remix)
"For this remix, I pulled out the most musical fragments of the original, like the bicycle bells, and turned them into looping motifs, then built an entirely new drum and bass track beneath them. I also reshaped the vocal sample into another loop and wove in select sound effects, like the crowd noise and a car starting, to preserve the atmosphere while giving the piece a fresh identity." Drum ...
5m Dec 18, 2025
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Drum and bass on the bike
This is the recording I made by complete accident - we were coming back home with my girlfriend and when we came out of the metro station we heard loud music from behind, so we went to see what it was. I remembered that I'd seen the posters around town about the Drum and Bass on Bike event, which was supposed to be in support of the general 420 parade (cannabis legalization movement in general...
2m Dec 18, 2025
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Brooklyn carousel
This is a brief recording in May 2022 of the music from Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn, NY. I was just looking up the history of the Merry-Go-Round, which was built in 1922 for the Idora Park amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio. So, by sheer coincidence this recording was made 100 years after the creation of the carousel. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York by Bill McKenna.
2m Dec 18, 2025
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Jane underwater
"Resampled bit of carousel from my former home of Brooklyn gets a new life as this plaintive melody." Carousel in Brooklyn, New York reimagined by Anne Pope.
5m Dec 18, 2025
5m
The March of Light
The March of Light 2025 (Ukraine Support Demonstration in Vienna) This recording illustrates one of the crucial parts of the March of Light demonstration, which is basically a flash mob based on people showing and hiding their phones with flashlights turned on, which is then shared on social media to draw people's attention to the whole event, which is to support Ukraine in its war against its...
2m Dec 18, 2025
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Transmissie
"The original field recording captures a street choir singing hymns. I transformed this material by processing it into dense, evolving layers of sound. One layer stretches the recording in time and feeds it through the Elta Music Solar 42F, allowing the choral textures to dissolve into a shimmering, otherworldly drone. "The result is a slow-moving, contemplative, and meditative soundscape that...
3m Dec 18, 2025
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Vietnam
"The bird sounds of this recording have a particular cadence and repetition. It inspired me to create something that was more solid and continuous to accompany it. I created a drone composed of 4 sounds that intertwine with each other progressively. "This piece contains a binaural base frequency of 3.2 Hz so it is encouraged to listen on earphones to get the optimum effect. The piece is also t...
6m Dec 18, 2025
6m
Dripping water inside a sea cave
Inside a sea cave on a Cornish beach, recording dripping waves on different surfaces and at different distances, onto rock, into small puddles and directly onto sand, while the roar of the sea waves continues outside the cave. Recorded in Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England by Cities and Memory, April 2025.
4m Dec 18, 2025
4m
Cicadas and katydids singing
Cicadas and katydids singing in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, 9 Aug 2013. This is a recording of the intense sounds of cicadas and katydids singing in the deep night. The recording was made using two condenser microphones in stereo array through a Mackie 12 track board directly to digital. Recorded by Dan Bodah.
5m Dec 18, 2025
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Aquatic reverberations from Cornwall to SoCal
"Salt water reverberations and soundscapes are a daily and necessary embodied element of my life by and on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, Southern California. As a woman from Britain living in SoCal, I connect with the sea caves sounds in Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England, being soothed and inspired by the rhythms, pitches, textures, and timbres of water drops, accompanied by the constant ro...
13m Dec 18, 2025
13m
An intense calling
"For this year’s Autumn Project, I was excited to have the opportunity to work with a sample collected near my original home. "“An Intense Calling” is field-recording-based piece based on a recording of cicadas and katydids in Dingman’s Ferry, PA collected by Dan Bodah. Growing up near the Delaware Water Gap on the other side in New Jersey, I was excited to think about both the feelings this r...
4m Dec 18, 2025
4m
Autumn drums
"As soon as I heard the drum recording, I wanted to do something with it in the spirit of break chopping/dj tools. I love lots of 70s/80s/early 90s straight sample flips & it was an unusual opportunity to try something similar without butting up against copyright issues. "I chopped up the recording, added a little in the way of effects, and supplemented a simple electro beat. "I enjoy listeni...
5m Dec 18, 2025
5m
Magic hour at the Fairy Pools
Possibly the most visited spot on Skye are the Fairy Pools, a long chain of pools and small waterfalls coming down from the mountains - a truly stunning spot. We visit after most tourists have left, at around 8pm in the evening, to capture some close-up sound recordings without the presence of tourists. Recorded in Skye, Scotland by Cities and Memory, April 2025.
4m Dec 18, 2025
4m
Ever Is Over All by Pipilotti Rist
A video installation called "Ever Is Over All" by Pipilotti Rist (1997), at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin - haunting music loops over and over, while in the video the artist walks along the street, then smashes car windows using a model of a large flower. Recorded by Cities and Memory, September 2025.
5m Dec 18, 2025
5m
Diana memorial fountain
An extract from a soundwalk around this water feature in Hyde Park, London. It’s an oval granite channel measuring between 6 and 10 meters wide, and about 50 by 80 metres in diameter. Water flows across a varied surface cut into the granite, creating calm ripple sounds, fast torrents, turbulent bubbling… Recorded by Paul Wheeler.
5m Dec 18, 2025
5m
Changti Street night market, Wuhan
Wuhan’s night markets are famously vibrant, but Changti Street’s night market recording was chosen for its contrast with the afternoon one, highlighting shifts in life’s rhythm and atmosphere. In this recording: nearby voices shift from passersby to seated diners, more stable; the next layer of pedestrians chat while walking, dynamic. In the mid-to-distant background, restaurant workers and ve...
4m Dec 18, 2025
4m
Under the night market
"This field recording put me in mind of the anxiety and sensory overload one can experience in crowded public spaces like the night market the original captures. The horns of cars, beeping of cars and cacophony of noises from busy stalls are transformed into abstracted noises, barely legible as their original forms, and the voices of workers and customers come in and out of focus, creating thei...
3m Dec 18, 2025
3m
Lost in frequency
'Since moving to London, I have been continuously tuning myself to the frequency of this city. "Melodies generated by four automatic systems based on different musical scales, field recordings, and my own voice sometimes connect, intersect, conflict, and harmonise. "Lost in different frequencies, I am still searching for a way through." Diana memorial fountain, London reimagined by Miya.
5m Dec 18, 2025
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Never is ever over
"Field recording of Pipilotti Rist's "Ever Is Over" performance piece deconstructed via various granular processes." Video installation from Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman.
2m Dec 18, 2025
2m
Subliminish
"This piece was made from a selection of time-stretched samples of gaps between the rushing water in the original field recording, layered and manipulated to create an ambient soundscape. I have had the pleasure of swimming in the Fairy Pools in the past, and was inspired by the uncanny and liminal nature of sounds and ambience when heard underwater. "I particularly focused on the pseudo-vocal...
5m Dec 18, 2025
5m
Sacred meetings
" Boscastle, such a beautiful magical place, set in a deep valley carved out by the river, with jagged cliffs covered in emerald & drifts of Sea Pinks & white Campion, where the sea birds nest. The buildings growing out of the cliffs in slate & killas. The slate slabs & cobbles trodden into forms of memories for hundreds of years. "I was inspired by the Boscastle field recording because of my ...
5m Dec 12, 2025
5m
Waves on the jetty
Light waves breaking on a stone boat jetty in the very small one-boat Boscastle harbour in Cornwall on a sunny August afternoon. Recorded by Cities and Memory, June 2025.
4m Dec 12, 2025
4m
Cascade of autumn
"This composition is built from a field recording of a waterfall in the Lake District by Rob Parton. The waterfall has a broad spectrum of frequencies decaying and emerging; a metaphor for autumn: as each droplet’s resonance fades, new ones emerge, echoing nature’s descent into winter, its long sleep and quiet preparation for spring. "The piece features a vocal sample of Karen McCarthy Woolf r...
8m Dec 12, 2025
8m
Where?
"The original source sound for this piece was from a bat echolocation detection device. So in this sonic interpretation, I aimed to create the feeling of reaching out into a mysterious, dark space of unknown size or location. "The timbre is meant to be muffled and imprecise while the musical material is deliberate and approaching Baroque. I also bounced the original source sound between variou...
2m Dec 12, 2025
2m
Donkey stone
"I was drawn to the call of the Rag and Bone man, and I thought of the man himself, beyond the call - and imagined my own best beloved Great Grandmother and the stories she told me of getting a Donkey Stone from the Rag and Bone man, and scrubbing her step clean. "It must have been important to her, because she told me about it as though it were a ritual. So I wrote her song, as she might sing...
4m Dec 12, 2025
4m
Tug of war at the palio games
Annual "palio" games are common across Italy, in which the town divides itself up into different quarters, which then compete in a series of games over several nights - here, we listen to the first event, the tug of war, with several rounds between different teams all named after animals. We can also hear the nightly "campana della sera" evening bells at 9.00pm midway through the recording. Re...
16m Dec 12, 2025
16m
Radiative feedback
"|Using SpectralLayers, I isolated the background noise and PA voice into distinct layers that were shortened and pitch-shifted with various effects to create a bed for the track. Then samples of the voice and background were chopped up and woven into a chilled-out ambient composition." Villa del Conte palio games reimagined by Karhide.
6m Dec 12, 2025
6m
Rag and bone man in an English village
Every now and then a Rag ‘n' Bone man (scrap metal man) drives his van round my village in the Forest of Dean picking up scrap metal. It has been difficult to record him. By the time I’ve got the recorder out he’s gone. This time I was lucky. The recording captures him passing down my lane, then the strident chatter of sparrows and the gentle hum of bees in the garden before we hear him again c...
2m Dec 12, 2025
2m
The beep of the bat detector
The sounds of a bat detector converting bat echolocation calls into audible frequencies on a bat behaviour/nesting site survey in Oxfordshire. Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti.
7m Dec 12, 2025
7m
Yuncao Old Street, Wuhu
Finding a spot in Wuhu’s city center that fit this recording project’s theme was nearly impossible, but a sentimental taxi driver pointed me to Yuncao, a small town on the Yangtze’s north bank. Water transport (caoyun) is the origin of Wuhu’s name, hinting at stories embedded in the town’s identity. Recently turned into a tourist spot, it was still free of visitors, with shops and residents all...
3m Dec 12, 2025
3m
Mountain waters in the Lake District
Mountain Waters captures the sound of water flowing along the Stickle Tarn trail in the Lake District, near Stickle Tarn at the heart of the Langdale Pikes. The water moves over rocks and drops, creating a rhythmic, textured sound that reflects the natural processes shaping this landscape. The Lake District, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is defined by its lakes and mountains, and this recordin...
2m Dec 12, 2025
2m
Protest outside SOAS, London
Protest outside SOAS in support of Haya Adam - 26th September 2025. A Palestine-related protest outside SOAS, UoL, Bloomsbury, London. Haya Adam is a student who has led Palestine protests and was expelled from SOAS this summer. The first half of the recording has protest chants, the second half is a speech from Haya Adam. Recorded by James Errington.
20m Dec 12, 2025
20m
Camps Bay street dancers
A recording capturing the energised nature of Cape Town, complicated by the historic struggles that have defined the country. This was an autumn day, blue skies and bright sunshine. This was during my first trip to South Africa, where I had started visiting to uncover information about my South African family and dad, who died when I was very young. Recorded by Daniel Mackenzie.
3m Dec 12, 2025
3m
A summer morning in the rice fields
Recorded on a summer morning in the middle of a beautiful rice field stretching as far as the eye can see. It felt like a magnificent sound installation, with crows and insects singing. Recorded in Niigata, Japan by Miyu Hosoi.
1m Dec 12, 2025
1m
Pulsating
"This piece emerged kind of organically out of itself. It was rather hard to start to manipulate the original recording of Digimonk, because it was so beautifull in itself, technically and naratologically speaking. "It turned out to become some kind of radiophonic storytelling piece." Wuhu old town soundscape reimagined by Sebastian Dingens.
4m Dec 12, 2025
4m
No peace
"The heavy drumming and urgent voices in the recording immediately captured my attention. Following the rhythm of the recorded percussion I built sounds, that felt poignant and appropriate, around the initial groove and pitches inherent in the chanting voices. As a 'protest song' I felt that Dub and Reggae influences were relevant, and added charisma to the piece. I hope that I have captured so...
5m Dec 12, 2025
5m
Cape Town feast
"The music, rhythms, sounds from Cape Town have inspired many of us for long now. In this piece one can sense that layering of the rich fabric of the city musical history: all I did is trying to highlight the rhythms and motives, I didn't want to add anything else!" Cape Town dancers reimagined by Clelia Ciardulli.
3m Dec 12, 2025
3m
Yugen
"This sonic composition, titled Yūgen (幽玄), delves into the aesthetic of subtle beauty and the profound mystery that defines this Japanese concept. The work originates from a deep immersion in the serenity of the Niigata rice fields at dawn, a space of absolute tranquility where the absence of sounds from human sources becomes the creative driving force. "The process focused on the creation of...
10m Dec 12, 2025
10m
Sunday market in Molenbeek
Step into the vibrant streets of Molenbeek, Belgium on a Sunday morning, where the sounds of the bustling market come alive. This immersive sound walk recording captures the sights and sounds of the local community as they go about their day. The air is filled with the cacophony of vendors calling out to passersby, the clinking of pots and pans, and the murmur of lively conversations in a vari...
5m Dec 12, 2025
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