Chain kit
"The recording really highlights the value and depth of everyday sounds, so I wanted to make them into energetic beats. I decided not to add any instruments or anything to the audio, instead working with the audio to create the piece. by turning the familiar, everyday rhythms of market soundscapes into beats, I hoped to channel the energy of the space into melodic beats." Chiang Mai packing ma...
3m Dec 18, 2023
3m
Bamboo being cut, Thailand
The sound of bamboo being split, hacked and shaved in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recorded by Alex Boyesen.
9m Dec 18, 2023
9m
Phan Rang insect call by the ocean
Insect calls zap above calming ocean waves. Recorded by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe.
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Midnight waves on a beach
Waves rolling in at midnight on a deserted beach in Sirolo, Italy. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
10m Dec 18, 2023
10m
Late summer afternoon on the beach
"It's 5pm on an August afternoon, and beachgoers and swimmers enjoy the mellow sunshine on Mezzavalle Beach in Portonovo, Italy. Gentle waves, with the occasional beachgoer's voice appearing over the top in the background give this recording a dreamy feeling." Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
Finnish protesters in the snow
"Stand with Ukraine' demonstration in Helsinki, Feb 2022. Crowds gather at the Esplanadin puisto (park). Thick snow on the ground, the sub zero midday temperatures make the snow crunch under your feet. A group of friends laugh and talk together at the back of the crowd. The demo leader speaks over a megaphone. He tells the crowd what to chant. They practise before they march up to the Russian e...
3m Dec 18, 2023
3m
Voice as drum as protest
——————— Voice as Drum as Protest ——————— The march or demonstration is an act of the collective. An act of a community united in protest. This act of protest is very often driven and sustained by sound. This sound is sometimes harsh and sometimes harmonious. Many demonstrations, such as the civil rights march at Selma, use song. Others use prayer, chants, instruments and electrification to mak...
4m Dec 18, 2023
4m
The tide
"When I first listened to the recording, I was immediately drawn to the sound of the waves. I wanted to create a piece that was inspired by those waves as well as the contradiction of water. Water can be tranquil or dangerous, it's both predictable and unpredictable. the Tide is a cyclical wave that can be looped from here to eternity." Italian beach waves reimagined by Ally Poole.
10m Dec 18, 2023
10m
Turmoil
"The sound of ocean waves is something that is associated with the shore and is considered a relaxing sound. I wanted to take the sound out of context and disassociate it from a soothing shoreline sound. Besides the original sound, a sine wave and a low frequency drone was used along with various filters." Midnight waves in Italy reimagined by Ricardo Paraíso Silvestre.
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
An insect from Vietnam, the ocean and rain
"This recording inspired me because of the many levels of different sound sources it introduced. I used the recording as it is and slowed down version combined with my own recording and played midi on top of it... On a rainy day someone dreams of being in Vietnam..." Insects in Vietnam reimagined by Sirpa Jokinen.
12m Dec 18, 2023
12m
The life of bamboo
"I was drawn to this recording because of the range of different percussive sounds produced from cutting bamboo and the magical feeling of the bamboo forest. The people speaking in the recording contrasted with the natural sounds of the forest. It was a dynamic I wanted to play with to produce this piece. In the end, I tried to tell a story from the perspective of the bamboo." Thai bamboo cutt...
1m Dec 18, 2023
1m
Ueno adventure park
"I decided that the field recording should sit within the overall stereo field and along with the music simply form part of the composition and not become too prominent overall. Thus I created the music to wrap around the field recording as if the field recording was another instrument within the piece, which like the other sounds weaves in and out and drops in and out." Ueno Park reimagined b...
5m Dec 09, 2023
5m
Eurasian stroll in 11/8
"Having attended a concert of middle eastern music a few day previous to beginning the piece I was inspired to attempt something rhythmic in a traditional time signature and use some of the pitched components of the recording to allude to a hijaz scale. The recording contained some percussive elements including coughing and bottles rattling which were uses as the rhythmic backbone. This idea wa...
5m Dec 09, 2023
5m
Ueno Park - a quiet place
"The recording location for 'Ueno Park - Quiet Place' is situated in Ueno Onshi Park in Tokyo. It is Japan's first public park and houses important cultural institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, the National Museum of Nature and Science, and the Ueno Zoo. Due to the presence of these significant attractions, it naturally becomes a gathering place fo...
6m Dec 09, 2023
6m
Viale Roma, Vicenza
A walk from the station in Vicenza, Italy past a bar where music is being piped out of a PA, past a row of idling buses. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
2m Dec 09, 2023
2m
Kyoto adventure
"I have never been to Kyoto, but this recording evokes in my mind a meditative place, immersed in nature, so I tried to add to the recording a gentle musical meditation. I also tried to focus on small details of the soundscape, like you might do while meditating, and pulled up from the original sample some seconds of people quietly speaking, turned it up and processed it to become audible but n...
2m Dec 08, 2023
2m
Fushimi Inari Taisha - a quiet place
"The recording location for 'Fushimi Inari Taisha - Quiet Place' is located at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. It is one of Kyoto's busiest tourist attractions, but I also found its own kind of silence here. In both '1.3' and '1.4,' I heard the same insect chirping and its sound resembled that of frogs, but it was not as deep. During subsequent visits, I discovered similar insect sounds in the f...
4m Dec 08, 2023
4m
A song for our mother
"A song for our mother, is a calling for help from our Mother Earth. The recorded sounds gave me the inspiration to compose a story about our forgotten land, the forests. Where our mother is calling us back again. Hope, sorrow, strength, all at once as one body have given me the imaginary landscape to put my thoughts into the sound canvas." Birds in Auroville reimagined by ioannis vlastaris ak...
5m Dec 08, 2023
5m
Enough sleep
"I tell stories using dialogue taken from public domain educational films and giving them new context. I chose a film about sleep health and as one of the characters and I share the same name it really spoke to me. "When we moved to NC 12 years ago, one of the things that I immediately enjoyed was listening to the cicadas. Their sound is somewhere be complete cacophony and beautiful orchestra....
3m Dec 08, 2023
3m
Near the shore
"The drumming of the original recording inspired to create an imaginary soundscape; I saw myself hiding aboard a creaky boat while tribal drums beat in the distance. "First I cut apart the drums to create a new rhythm, then I added some waves, creaks, and seagulls from my own sound library to round out the atmosphere." Ferrara drummers reimagined by Michael Winchester.
2m Dec 08, 2023
2m
A parallel walk
"This piece is composed as a soundwalk, as its initial field recording. The journey unfolds between two parallel worlds – that of the sound recorder and the composer. The recording that I used for this piece is a soundwalk along the path leading to Sumela Monastery in the Black Mountain in Trabzon, Turkey, recorded by Uğur Aslan. "I chose this recording because the recording captures an intrig...
4m Dec 08, 2023
4m
One world, one chance
"Drawing inspiration from the recording of a climate protest in Edinburgh, my electroacoustic composition navigates the landscape of media misinformation surrounding crucial societal issues. Utilising the voices captured during the protest, the piece reflects on the challenge of conveying essential messages amidst the noise of information overload. Through intricate sound processing, the compos...
11m Dec 08, 2023
11m
Japanese drummers at Ferrara International Buskers Festival
"Ferrara International Buskers Festival 2023 - one of the top dates in the global street music calendar. A troupe of masked Japanese drummers using large plastic oil containers as their instruments impresses a large evening crowd, and as the microphone turns we can hear how the sound is being reflected back by a large castle wall behind us." Recorded by Cities and Memory.
6m Dec 08, 2023
6m
Soundwalk at Sümela Monastery
"I captured this audio while walking on a small, narrow road that leads to the entrance of the Sumela Monastery in Karadağ (Black Mountain), Trabzon. This recording is an example of a soundwalk, with natural sounds such as birdsongs, as well as the music of a kemençe, a traditional instrument of the Trabzon region, played by a musician using an amplifier. Additionally, the voices of tourists ca...
2m Dec 08, 2023
2m
Cicadas high in the trees
A chorus of cicadas on a hot afternoon high up in the trees above us in the woods near Sirolo, Italy, August 23. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Dec 08, 2023
5m
Call and response birds
This is a binaural mix of a nature soundscape involving a particular call and response, recorded while I was staying in Auroville, India. Recorded by Raghavendran Rajagopal.
8m Dec 08, 2023
8m
Climate protest, Edinburgh, November 2022
On Saturday 12 November in Edinburgh, a coalition of climate groups marched through the city to demand Climate Justice in solidarity with the Global Day of Action called by Egyptian groups at COP27. Performances, songs and chants featured throughout, some of which captured via field recordings. This recording was from St Andrew Square and features a protestor playing a tongue drum. Recorded b...
3m Dec 08, 2023
3m
The family album
"This sound of flowing water in a stream of Parco Naturale del Conero, takes me back to holidays when I was a little boy. A picnic by the water; I am sitting on a rug, surrounded by family with whom everything is still fine. My father takes photos to preserve a memory for later. I still have his old camera; the shutter is now broken. But sometimes, the golden light of those summers reflects in ...
4m Dec 07, 2023
4m
Sound(s) matter(s)
"This piece is a reflection about the concept of space as sound. Space understood not a visual concept, but as an auditory one, as the connective tissue between all of the objects in the world, carried to the perimeter and to the center. A voluminous environment that emerges from an exquisite global polyphony. This piece was inspired by Mathias Hinke's lesson 'Demonstrations and fun cultures' t...
2m Dec 07, 2023
2m
A hot afternoon in the forest
A humid, hot August afternoon in the Parco Regionale del Conero - we record a small trickling stream in a very quiet, butterfly-filled wood, as the occasional insect buzzes around the microphone to check it out. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 07, 2023
4m
Jeremy Corbyn rally, 2019
Labour Party/Corbyn rally, Manchester Apollo, November 2019 - Corbyn supporters chanting at rally. Recorded by Claire Solanki.
24s Dec 07, 2023
24s
Autumnal drift
"The sound of cicadas are quite meditative. So I let them take me where they wanted to take me. This reimagined piece attempts to tap into the spirit of that journey." Cicadas in Thailand reimagined by Eulipion Corps.
3m Dec 06, 2023
3m
Love machine
"Street sounds from the city of dreams evoking memories of romantic fantasy and escapism in the world of cinema. "Inspired by the field recording of Rome traffic (I have used the entire 4 min sample, thus defining the length of my contribution). "When listening to street sounds, in any city, any country, I try to hear the history of the echoing voices, footsteps and tires rushing by. Being fe...
4m Dec 06, 2023
4m
Roman roads
"A close-up, binaural recording of a paved/tiled road intersection in Rome, April 23, which makes a particular sound as cars cross over it. We can also hear the distinctive sound of the Roman pedestrian crossing beeps periodically." Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 06, 2023
4m
Cicada countryside, Thailand
Nighttime sounds of the cicadas and insects in the trees and fields, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recorded by Alex Boyesen.
15m Dec 06, 2023
15m
Echoes of industry: manipulated rhythms
"The motion of the Long Beach pump creates a complex set of friction, rubbing and impact sounds. These rhythmic interactions have been abstracted, their harshness softened, and new sets of functional sounds, manipulated rhythms, and drones have been created using the Octatrack MkII." Long Beach oil pumping reimagined by Alan Cook.
14m Dec 06, 2023
14m
Busy walla crowd
"I carefully cut six loops from the original recording of sounds that worked for me, then layered them up in Ableton live and jammed with them, adding outboard effect into the mix." Burkina Faso market reimagined by David Webb.
7m Dec 06, 2023
7m
Nightmare fuel - oil pumping in Long Beach
"The sounds of a couple of oil rigs, pumping crude oil out of an area near the San Gabriel River and adjacent to the Los Cerritos Wetlands in Long Beach, Ca. Part of the Hellman Properties." Recorded by Michael Winchester.
2m Dec 06, 2023
2m
Busy market in Burkina Faso
"Kambouinsse market - a small town 20 minutes' drive from Ouagadougou, recorded in the early afternoon." Recorded by Martin Weissberg.
4m Dec 06, 2023
4m
The sonic reverberation of Saint Marinus
"I am always intrigued by church bells, especially as they are a constant sound in many peoples lives and a sound that has not changed as the world is played out around the sonic distance they travel. Their sound is the same as prior centuries, or earlier, in old towns and villages they connect us to those so very long gone. "This is much the case in the field recording now reimagined (with th...
10m Dec 05, 2023
10m
Piazza della Liberta, San Marino
In the centre of San Marino, the clock chimes the hour, we shelter from the wind at the top of this high, exposed old town, and the passers-by are a curious mix of the usual tourists and people in all kinds of costumes here for a festival of sci-fi and fantasy. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 05, 2023
4m
Stroud dawn chorus
"I’ve struggled with tinnitus,  more specifically hyperacusis, for 26 years. Extremes of loud noise and silence are the enemy. I’ve pretty much given up on my one main passion, live music, but there are some surprising benefits. I can still hear bats, for example. I’ve recently moved from Bristol, which has 24/7 background noise, to Stroud, considerably quieter. The natural sounds seem more am...
20m Dec 05, 2023
20m
Quite harsh electronica (for Michael Faber)
"This started life as an ambient dawn chorus, but then I heard Michel Faber describing how his tinnitus resembles the "quite harsh electronica" music he really loves during the 30 Oct 2023 episode of Start the Week (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ry9f) and the birdsong mutated!" Stroud dawn chorus reimagined by Michael Lilley.
3m Dec 05, 2023
3m
Calama market
"The field recording of street vendors in an outdoor market in the Andean high plains of Chile, one of the driest deserts in the world, fascinated us. You could tell there was so much life in the people buying and selling, despite it being recorded doing the pandemic (much of what is sold or talked about in the recording had to do with Covid). So we wanted the composition (for saxophone and cel...
4m Dec 02, 2023
4m
The fragrance of freesias
"The field recording runs quietly in the background having had sections copied and brutally mangled / filtered / granulised to make musical sounds. Synths added for flavouring." Cape Town flower market reimagined by Simon Woods.
5m Dec 02, 2023
5m
The mist of Rotterdam
"My late partner, who was half Swedish and half Dutch, had roots in Rotterdam. Our plans to travel to this city were thwarted by the illness that befell my partner. This composition represents an imaginary trip to Rotterdam that, if it were to materialize, could only happen now under completely different circumstances." Rotterdam morning soundscape reimagined by LR Friberg.
7m Dec 02, 2023
7m
Smell the freesias
"The Adderley Street flower market is the oldest flower market in Cape Town – a large covered alley where the flower sellers, mostly women whose families have been in the trade for generations, set up their stalls at 6am each day. This recording captures the market’s morning soundscape – a customer buying freesias, people walking through the market en route to other parts of the city; the sound...
5m Dec 02, 2023
5m
Chilean food market walkthrough
"In this recording we can hear interactions of the local rotatory food market in Calama, Chile (it has different location, depending on the day of the week) during pandemia. You can hear the sellers offering their's differents products and the interaction with clients, as I walked thourght the market." Recorded by Diego Villalobos S.
9m Dec 02, 2023
9m
A wet spring in Delfshaven
"A wet, spring day on my balcony. You can hear the rain drops on a plastic roof, cars driving by on the other side of the canal, the occasional bird that flies by, the ringing of the bridge opening and a big boat pushing the water infront of it, the church nearby signaling noon and a plain flying overhead." Recorded in Rotterdam by Joris Frowein.
7m Dec 02, 2023
7m
Guanacaste dawn
"Working with this recording by Diego Espeleta of howler monkeys and birds taken at dawn at the Reserva Conchal in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, was an exercise in recalibrating expectations of musicality in sound. "The howler monkeys' growls and barks are guttural, not really what we conventionally associate with singing or music, and indeed sound quite scary in their unfamiliarity. Or is it that t...
7m Dec 02, 2023
7m