Le loup et l'agneau
 "I was enchanted by Christine Renaudat’s recording of her daughter aged 9 reciting Jean De La Fontaine’s version of the old Aesop’s Fable - The Wolf and the Lamb. Her daughter was born in Colombia and Christine home schooled her in French. She was teaching her all about her homeland of France talking about animals she could “barely imagine” (wolves and sheep) and learning the names of the Fren...
4m Jul 14, 2024
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A new beginning from Xiamen
"The field recording with the importance of preserving the city's valuable cultural heritage, even amidst the changes, inspire me a story with sound images that help you rediscover the beauty of Xiamen. "At the beginning, the sound of cut bamboo and a fascinating pentatonic melody, created and played by me on the flute ,brings to mind a magic and ancestral atmosphere. "I created 4 tracks: 2 f...
4m Jul 14, 2024
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Coffee in Prague
In early December 2023 I was running a workshop in Prague for Ukrainians who had been forced to flee because of the full-scale Russian invasion of their country, and who were now living in other European countries. The students I was teaching were learning about how to tackle disinformation and propaganda, and how to develop effective communications strategies to encourage people in their new c...
1m Jul 14, 2024
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Divided united
Recording of the 'Free Palestine' peaceful protest in the fall of 2023, which took place in the divided capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, itself being both exemplary and conflicting. This unprecedented moment in history glues the refugee crisis in previous years with the new wave due to the ongoing wars. While people look for a home and assimilate into the new environment, they also support the caus...
1m Jul 14, 2024
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Carretillero
If there is one sound that represents our daily life in Cartagena, Colombia, where we chose to live years ago, after leaving France, it would be this one. The chanting/singing/shouting of the  many street vendors who work in our neighbourhood. This one was recollecting recyclable materials, and whistling while pushing his handcart. He would arrive every morning at 7h30 in our street. I don’t s...
4m Jul 14, 2024
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Le loup et l'agneau
This is my daughter at age 9, reciting a Fable by Jean de la Fontaine in French. Migrating often requires navigating between languages. My daughter was born in Colombia, but I wanted her to  speak and write in French. So I home schooled her in French. The distance learning program we followed required recording her while she was reading or reciting some poems. So we were at home, living in th...
2m Jul 14, 2024
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The beauty of Xiamen
 The recording depicts a group of elderly locals from Xiamen engaging in conversation. As modernization continues to progress, an increasing number of young people are leaving the city to pursue employment prospects elsewhere. This trend is directly tied to the broader theme of migration, and has led to a decline in the use of the Xiamen dialect as a result of both population loss and urbaniza...
1m Jul 14, 2024
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Sounds of nomadic Altay Kazakhs
In Altay, Xinjiang, China, Kazakhs have lived here for hundreds of years and still maintain a nomadic lifestyle that follows the seasons. However, the process of modernization and development is changing their traditions, customs and even language. The younger generation is unwilling to continue the hard nomadic life, and the older generation who are gradually aging may be the last generation ...
4m Jul 13, 2024
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Vancouver 1987
I migrated from Stockholm, Sweden to Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1987. The cities are approximately the same size and are located on the same latitude. I was somehow expecting something similar to what I was used to. I was wrong. The first shock was the sound of the city of Vancouver. The noise bouncing between glass clad skyscrapers was, in my ears, extreme. And it went on around the clock. Traf...
3m Jul 13, 2024
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EU border voices
On a sound research visit to the EU border of Bosnia and Herzegovina I visited and spoke to different individuals stuck in B&H to transport their voices to document an art exhibition in 2022. In this recording me and friends were welcomed by a group of people to their temporary home the so called "Family Squat" located outside of Velika Kladuša. There are 3-8 people sleeping in one room, carpe...
2m Jul 13, 2024
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Park Maximilian
In this binaural recording, we can hear a group of young men playing a game of football on a small courtyard. The players run from one end of the field to the other, chasing the ball and trying to score. We can hear the ball being passed around and some attempts of shooting the ball, resulting in a loud, metallic 'bang' against the metal caging of the field. You can also hear men shouting in di...
7m Jul 13, 2024
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Brunnenmarkt - a piece of home
Vienna has a lively tradition of streetmarkets. The Brunnenmarkt is a daily opened food market in the workingclass quarter Ottakring. Years ago it was a quite small market in the Brunnenstrasse, nowadays it is expanding every year, because it‘s a great opportunity to get your first job when you are new in Vienna, without the necessarity to speak German, because your customers are mostly from yo...
2m Jul 13, 2024
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Nomadic trail
 "The recording I chose for work is, to be honest, quite self-sufficient. However, I decided to wrap it in sound like a wool blanket without adding many other elements. I thought for a long time about what sonic texture I associate with China, Kazakhstan, and Altai, and what at the same time resonates with my personal experience of migration, and eventually, I came to overtone singing. "As the...
5m Jul 13, 2024
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Broadcasts of the displaced
""Broadcasts of the displaced" is a soundscape composition exploring the transient nature of migration, combining the provided field recording, which was then manipulated to be come the source for all of the additional sonic content. I am drawn to the ideas surrounding ghost voices in the airwaves, and the idea of slowly decaying radio broadcasts. "Inspired by the my own migration and a connec...
8m Jul 13, 2024
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Journey's ends
"I was inspired by the scale of the call to prayer playing out in Bosnia. Using the notes I added some improvised piano to the supplied field recording getting further and further away from the maqam. The impression of war was added as heavily manipulated layered field recordings which included slowed down cobbles and use of the GRM Evol plug in on nature sounds. "A plaintive alto sax (me) and...
12m Jul 13, 2024
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Precarious conditions
"I was drawn into the recording by the complexity of the sound - the different layers: close and far / long and short / bass and treble / soft and loud. It was almost like a type of jungle. "I was also drawn in by the story of the park - a residential area in the centre of the city where migrants pitch their tents - an arena where the potential for both clash and collaboration is so clearly pl...
3m Jul 13, 2024
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Brunnenmarkt (Andy Lyon reimagining)
"The story of the market highlights the positives of migration, the blending of cultures, sharing and evolving of traditions. I've used a glitch aesthetic to represent this fusion, those fragments of conversations that you don't quite hear in a busy place and fragments of forgotten memories from the past." Brunnenmarkt, Vienna reimagined by Andy Lyon. Part of the Migration Sounds project, the...
4m Jul 13, 2024
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Woodend Christmas
 "Rob's story brought a slight tear to my eye at first read, and before even hearing the sound, I knew I was going to want to do minimal processing to the sound itself, as what it captures is really quite a beautiful story, although rooted in sadness, and certainly sees the family making some kind of progress after what has been some difficult years with the loss of a loved one and the separati...
4m Jul 13, 2024
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Then to now
"I chose Maria Gunko's recording from Armenia because it's a simple, peaceful field recording of a woman gardening out on her balcony after moving there "...striving for safe harbor from state violence amid the Russia-Ukraine War." "My remix, called "Then to Now", is an interpretation of a journey from war to a safe harbor. The first part, Then", is meant to be a bit discordant and slightly ch...
5m Jul 13, 2024
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I remember in pieces
"Memory is fragmented, especially when you're trying to remember the many people you been in the places you've been. Those memory pieces come up at odd times-- such as when you're making dinner and hear something on the radio that's so familiar yet so far away its almost forgotten now. That's the moment when you remember just a bit. "And then the moment has passed. And anyway... dinner's almos...
3m Jul 13, 2024
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Cumulonimbus
I have played with all the elements of the original recording and added 2 clips from recordings of mine in the mix - a spring dawn chorus and clay flutes activated by my voice in an installation. The process and re-mix reminds me of Cumulonimbus clouds which are born through convection, often growing from small cumulus clouds over a hot surface. They get taller and taller until they represent ...
4m Jul 13, 2024
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Into the call
 "I thought about the sample and how musical it is, yet so different from Western musical traditions of tuning and rhythm, and it's also part-spoken, rich in spiritual and cultural heritage. The sample is full of background noise, which can be annoying in music, but I find it gives a sense of place and enhances memories, including my own, of being in Arabic countries. I was interested also in p...
9m Jul 13, 2024
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Life: Woodend
 This is a recording of a few moments from Christmas Day 2023 in Woodend, Victoria, Australia - about an hour north of Melbourne. I come here with my wife, Heather, and our children when we can save up enough to pay for the airfare, as it is a critical opportunity for my family to connect with their cousins, and particularly for my wife to see her niece and nephew, who she loves very deeply and...
7m Jul 13, 2024
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Balcony chores
 A woman went out onto the balcony of her new apartment to rearrange the flowers. She is surrounded by the rare sounds of the street in an emptying town within the 'remoteness' of Armenian highlands. While locals leave this place in search of jobs and better life opportunities, she arrived here striving for a safe harbour from state violence amid the Russia-Ukraine war. She enjoys the tranquil...
2m Jul 13, 2024
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Tango for Ines
 I'm a tango violinist who migrated from the US to Argentina in 2002. This is a tango I improvised & my friend put some guitar to it. I felt deeply connected to tango 25 years ago and this pull on my heart inspired me to migrate halfway across the globe. I have been absorbed by tango, the stylish essence mixed with the mugre (filth) of the big city streets, the rhythmic swing that belongs to B...
2m Jul 13, 2024
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King of the mo(u)rning
Morning dawn in Tirana, Albania. The recordist, who has migrated from Tirana to Berlin for studies, returns to visit family. During this visit, they cannot fall asleep because of the sound of a lion roaring nearby. Balcony recording: morning rooster, other background animal sounds possibly dogs, at some point the main reason i cannot sleep: the lion downstairs caged in the zoo. The recording r...
2m Jul 13, 2024
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An afternoon prayer
The recording captures a scene where various everyday sounds are heard, including the call to prayer (Adhan) from a nearby mosque, footsteps of a dog in the house, barking dogs outside, chirping birds, and children playing in the background. The people involved could be the imam or muezzin calling for prayer, pedestrians going about their daily activities, stray dogs and children enjoying their...
3m Jul 13, 2024
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We keep evaporating until we don't
"The field recording of a hissing aromatherapy steam room inside the Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest formed a strong imagination of a dark public bathing space in ancient times. It teleported me to a place where I imagined everything to be in black and white. Where streaks of light were coming through the windows to partially illuminate the bath and the steam was constantly rising from the...
4m Jul 11, 2024
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Inside an aromatherapy steam room
The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest is the largest medicinal bath in Europe, opening in 1913. Here we are inside a hissing aromatherapy steam room, severely endangering our field recording device through heat and moisture in an attempt to bring you interesting sounds from around the world. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Jul 11, 2024
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Sathorn pier heaving
The metal pylons at Sathorn Pier in downtown Bangkok make this sound when the Chao Phraya River is high and roiling. Recorded by Kevin Frost.
16s Jul 11, 2024
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Mechanical failure
"This entire experimental composition is based  upon a 10 second clip of an engine revving-up from the original field recording. This clip was then processed via multiple FX. No instruments or additional sounds were added." Sathorn pier, Bangkok reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman.
3m Jul 11, 2024
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Spanish market melancholy
"I took the original recording and cut it up into bits, using samples from it to use as rhythmic elements. I used FLStudio on my computer to then create and layer patterns of these beats. I then layered two guitar parts on top. I used a nylon strung electric (Cordoba Stage) and a Walrus Audio delay pedal for the first guitar and Walrus Audio Fathom reverb for the lead part. The guitar was put t...
7m Jul 06, 2024
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Mercado Central de Zaragoza
Sound recording of the Central Market of Zaragoza, a historic and unique building where accents and languages ​​mix. Recorded in Zaragoza, Spain in 2023 by Chuse Fernandez.
2m Jul 06, 2024
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In the Asclepieion
"When I heard the field recording I knew I wanted to work with the combination of harp and surrounding ambience. But I kept thinking about the scene-the Villa Borghese gardens, on the site of the ancient gardens of Lucullus, in terms of its temporal layers: the gardens, the recreated temple of Asklepios, and harp as a complicated symbol that usually gestures toward some version of a musical pas...
4m Jul 02, 2024
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Every spring keeps a winter in its heart
"The field recording chosen is the sound of the frozen sea in Finland. This sound of ice contrasted with the theme of the call, which is related to spring. So I associated the coldness of the ice with the harshness of war, which persists in this spring. In general terms, it is the representation of the constant tension and menace of war conflicts, and that peace is thin and delicate, always at ...
8m Jul 02, 2024
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1000 wishes
"Having recently experienced a live cinema screening where one moment of the film used coins as a part of the Foley performance, similar images and sounds were very vivid in my mind. When I heard this field recording from Kyoto that incorporated coins and clapping, I felt it was one that I should choose. "To work with the recording, I divided different instances of clapping and coins into samp...
7m Jul 02, 2024
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Fushimi Inari Taisha (prayer)
Wooden architecture is a significant characteristic of Japanese architecture, reflecting the experiences gained by the Japanese people through their ongoing battles with natural disasters. Wooden buildings embody the Japanese spirit of continuous exploration and adventure, with one of the primary manifestations being various shrine constructions. The recording location for 'Fushimi Inari Taish...
7m Jul 02, 2024
7m
Midnight symphony, Berlin
2024 New Year's Eve soundscape from Siemensdamm, Östlicher Luftfilterturm in Berlin, Germany. Recorded by Ashkan Beheshti.
20m Jul 02, 2024
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On the boating lake at Villa Borghese
 Next to the boating lake by the Tempio di Esculapio in the Villa Borghese Park in Rome. A harp busker performs, we walk around the lake listening to passers-by on a Sunday morning in April, and a police helicopter passes overhead. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
9m Jul 02, 2024
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Christmas Eve mass bells (plus skateboarders)
 Mass bells ring at 6pm on Christmas Eve in Padova, Italy in Prato della Valle, the largest piazza in Italy, alongside local skaters getting their last practice in before Christmas. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Jul 02, 2024
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Micro bats, Dularcha tunnel
 Micro bat (large footed myotis bat) sounds from inside the disused (since 1932) Dularcha Rail Tunnel, Mooloolah, Queensland, Australia. Audible sounds include: bat sounds, bird sounds, wind in the trees outside and distant trains (from the current train line). Recorded by Glenn Legge.
4m Jul 02, 2024
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Holy rollers
"For this piece I decided to limit myself solely to the source field recording without adding any additional instrumentation or other audio. The field recording appealed (pun intended) to me as I wanted to try to find a relationship between the two unrelated elements, the pealing cathedral bells and the clatter and roll of the skateboards. Through use of Ableton Live's Corpus Plug-in, I created...
4m Jul 02, 2024
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Siemensdamm
 "As soon as I heard the fireworks in the recording it took me straight back to a New Year’s I spent with a group of musician friends in Wismar, East Germany. I manipulated the sounds of the fireworks and created industrial sounding loops that reminded me of Porter Ricks or Surgeon - as Berlin is strongly associated with Techno music I decided to try and create a piece that you might hear on th...
4m Jul 02, 2024
4m
At the end of...
"A journey underground." Dularcha Rail Tunnel, Mooloolah, Queensland, Australia reimagined by Alex Vald.
5m Jul 02, 2024
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Capturing Valencia's Mascletà
This recording captures the raw intensity and vibrancy of the Mascletà in Valencia, recorded on the 11th of March, 2024. A celebration of sound and tradition, thunderous roars of meticulously synchronized explosions, echoing through the bustling streets of Valencia. Recorded by Carlos Berrizbeitia.
7m Jul 02, 2024
7m
Traditional Hungarian restaurant (with accordion)
 A meal at the traditional Hungarian restaurant Nancsi Neni in the suburbs of Budapest, with the clattering of plates, the sounds of diners and waiting staff and the accompaniment of an accordion player entertaining the clientele with some traditional tunes. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
3m Jul 02, 2024
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Peak time at Valencia's central market
It's October 7th, and in two days, the city of Valencia will celebrate the "Day of the Valencian Community." Since the market isn't open on Sundays, most people have come to the market today to buy everything they need for the holiday. The market is bustling, with everyone speedily moving from stand to stand to stock up before heading out to the street where the Association of Pyrotechnicians ...
6m Jul 02, 2024
6m
Chip shop chatter
A family day at the beach and stopped off to have some fish and chips, you can hear a conversation about chairs and games consoles. Recorded in Wells Next The Sea, England by Gary Pitt.
1m Jul 02, 2024
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The memory of a place that never was
"The recording to me made me think beyond where I am now, how places once sounded, I wanted to take parts of it to create what a memory could be of such an event. It reminded me of the last time I spent with friends on NYE before lockdown; also some events as in the someone sending me a recording of swifts outside their flat; the first place I visited post lockdown. "I mixed fireworks from my ...
3m Jul 02, 2024
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Sit, break bread with us
"I am aware of the vibrant, colourful markets in Spain and could really picture the scenes there as I listened to the field recording. I wanted to capture some of the nuances I imagined there, through the piece, to illustrate the feeling that within the liveliness of a market there are also pockets of calm as sounds merge and people move around each other." Valencia central market reimagined b...
4m Jul 02, 2024
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