Cacophony
"In protests many voices join together, sounding to create a powerful opposition, echoing through physical and mental spaces. This piece recalls mass protests, recorded by Daniel Beaudoin, in response to the 2023 Tempi train crash in Greece caused by gross negligence and followed by corrupt coverups. "Granular textures crafted from this recording and other protests I've recorded embrace and su...
3m Dec 12, 2025
3m
Suzhou's cat
"I liked that the original file showcased people enjoying their leisure time playing games and talking freely while the world went on by. I found it relaxing and peaceful. It made me think of how time passes us by, and how generations come and go - the cycle of life. So I wanted something repetitive and cyclical, yet relaxing. This inspired the waving synth drone. "I used outboard gear for all...
3m Dec 12, 2025
3m
Black milk
"This composition is based on an ambisonic recording made inside the Sauna at Auschwitz. This was the ‘bathhouse’ where new arrivals from the trains arriving at the camp were stripped of all their belongings, valuables and clothes, registered and tattooed with a number, then showered, shaved, disinfected and re-clothed. The building had a “clean” and a “dirty” side, and machines were used to st...
4m Dec 11, 2025
4m
Sauna, Auschwitz
Ambisonics recordings of the acoustics inside the "Sauna" in Auschwitz, where the prisoners were disinfected, shaved, stripped of their clothes and their valuables and tattooed with a number. Same acoustics today as in 1942. Recorded by Anders Vinjar.
9m Dec 11, 2025
9m
Among the Oldenburg ultras
At VFB Oldenburg vs. Luebeck, 9 May 2025 (final score: 0-2). An impressively large section of ultras for a small club in Germany's fourth division, marshalled by a leader with a megaphone. This is a passage of Oldenburg fans songs underpinned by drumming to keep everyone energised and in time. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 11, 2025
4m
The Oldenburg ultras choir
"I asked for a random field recording to let chance guide my ear. What arrived resonated: unmistakably urban, shaped by the pulse of a collective ritual. In the voices of the Vfb Oldenburg Ultras chants I heard an expression of joy and working-class culture, a liturgy sung by a secular choir. Lower division football provides an inclusive space where local cultural identity and community can be ...
8m Dec 11, 2025
8m
Duality
"Duality draws from the resonant tolling of church bells. The work explores how a single sound can hold opposing states—deep yet relaxing, weighty yet weightless. The bells become a meditation on perception itself: their meaning shaped not by acoustic properties alone, but by the listener's inner state. In their reverberations lies a paradox resolved only in stillness." Bremerhaven bell sounds...
4m Dec 11, 2025
4m
1 o'clock at Buergermeister-Smidt-Gedaechtniskirche
Church bells ring for 1pm at the Buergermeister-Smidt-Gedaechtniskirche, Bremerhaven, Germany, as police sirens sound in the background. Recorded in May 2025 by Cities and Memory.
2m Dec 11, 2025
2m
Hakkeijima Island underwater
Underwater sounds, the sound of waves on the sea, the vibration of wires to prevent falls, these are recorded. The sound of a titmouse playing on the wire is also included in the recording. Recorded 28.01.2025, 4:43pm by Miduno.
15m Dec 11, 2025
15m
The Norwegian wild bee
Soundscape of buzzing bees in a field in Leknes, Norway. Recorded by Agapi Zita.
3m Dec 11, 2025
3m
Deforestation - killing in the name of
Cousins Ave forest has been enjoyed by walkers, joggers and cyclists for decades. I regularly take my dog into the forest for a long run. Several weeks ago I arrived and found barriers erected as harvesting was commencing. I found a spot to sit and listen to the sounds of destruction in what was once a place of serenity. This recording captures the sounds of machinery reducing a once serene fo...
10m Dec 11, 2025
10m
Après moi, le déluge
"This piece was inspired by the global issue of flooding. It includes extracts from the work of the 19th C English poet, John Clare (reading by Ian King for Librivox - PD). In the final clip of the poem, the words are eventually overwhelmed by The Flood. "There is also acknowledgement of the origin of the field recording, with the inclusion of samples of Japanese traditional instruments." Hak...
7m Dec 11, 2025
7m
B-geophone-lounge
"The melodic and maybe even slightly forlorn sound of the bees made me want to include them as a layer in a moody instrumental piece so they became a low key pseudo horn part in a band which also features tuned stereo geophone recordings of me playing a hotel room balcony and claves recorded in the same hotel room. " I was staying in a small quiet village where the usual background car hum of ...
4m Dec 11, 2025
4m
Foxton bleach
Bleach: to lose colour. The recording of the Foxton Beach deforestation is transposed in a process of timbre decolorization. Using the original recording as a musical score, my compositional process puts emphasis on the degradation of the natural ecosystem by degrading sound and timbre elements. The result is a broken and ruined imaginary landscape where only a few synthetic sound survives. F...
10m Dec 11, 2025
10m
Pantuase (wetland at night)
"When choosing the field recording to work with, I was particularly drawn to a field recording of nocturnal amphibians from Pantuase, Ghana, featuring a species of frog that, until recently, had not been recorded before. The recording was made within a designated natural park, which was established both to protect species from pollution created by local industry and mining, and also to provide ...
9m Dec 10, 2025
9m
Tonal and polyrhythmic amphibians in a wetland
Pantuase is a new wetland location added to two other wetland locations namely Trom and Bonya which were previously recorded in 2021 and 2022. Those tonal frogs heard in the recording have never been acoustically captured so i was amazed by these unique sounds they were making when the recordings were sent to me. Since then, I keep asking myself how the place would have sounded like had it bee...
7m Dec 10, 2025
7m
Kyoto bamboo nocturne
At night, in a bamboo grove in Kyoto, the wind threads its way through the tall stalks, bending them until they sway and knock together with hollow tones. The sound is both delicate and immense — a shifting chorus of rattles, sighs, and murmurs that rise and fall like waves. Each gust carries a new texture: sometimes a low, resonant moan as the bamboo bows deeply, sometimes a fine, trembling hi...
5m Dec 10, 2025
5m
Niger desert installation, Klimahaus museum
Inside the Klimahaus museum, which is dedicated to telling the stories of climate and the environment. The exhibition called "The Journey" takes you around the world on a line of longitude from Bremerhaven with interactive installations and exhibits that make extensive use of sound to be as immersive as possible. Here we are in Niger, experiencing a video installation based on desert village li...
8m Dec 10, 2025
8m
Holy Communion in the Abbey
A recording of Holy Communion taking place in the iconic surroundings of Westminster Abbey, with the service audible both from the priest directly and piped through the surrounding speakers, as tourists pass the worshippers on all sides, and the epic reverb of the space threatens to swallow up everything in the soundscape. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
13m Dec 10, 2025
13m
Meridian
"This raw desert field recording, resonating from the halls of the Klimahaus Bremerhaven in Germany (Climate House Museum Bremerhaven), sparked a vision of musical imagination within me. "It drew me into a hidden world of untold stories, and from its pulse and breath, I shaped a soundscape I call Meridian. A sonic journey tracing the secret heart of the desert and revealing an oasis born of im...
12m Dec 10, 2025
12m
Multiple space and time
"I recorded and played all sounds. One of sound is coming from my home town Sapporo, when my grandmother was gone. Some of instrument is bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, tenor sax, handmade instrument, keys. Especially the wind instruments were recorded while I listened to the source sound." Westminster Abbey communion service reimagined by Ayane Sato.
13m Dec 10, 2025
13m
A storm
"I was inspired by the beauty in the percussive sound of the bamboo, and how it contrasts with harsher rustling of the wind and rain. I decided to use the recording as the only sound source: everything you hear in the piece is the original recording, manipulated. "Most of the piece was improvised by running and looping the 5 minute recording of the bamboo forest through my Eurorack modular syn...
20m Dec 10, 2025
20m
White whale in the Red Sea
"The Red Sea is a place with such rich history and significance, it felt overwhelming to try and encapsulate it fully. The field recording reflected to me an origin point. I imagined some type of primordial soup. The biodiversity that bubbles up and flourishes in the red sea despite the salinity feels like an overlooked triumph of nature. I wanted to layer the beautiful sounds of life within th...
7m Dec 10, 2025
7m
Attrition
"After being initially drawn to the rhythmic sounds of the sea and the tumbling rocks, I wanted to explore that process of erosion through the slow breakdown and transformation of the original field recording. In my research I learned this type of coastal erosion is called ‘attrition’ - this word is also used in a military context when the strength or effectiveness of a people is slowly reduced...
11m Dec 10, 2025
11m
Deer calls and shotguns
A stag vocalises in some woods in the Chiltern Hills, and in this recording you can also hear the distant sounds of shotguns as hunting season has commenced. There's also birdsong, and the sound of an aircraft flying overhead, which is an unfortunate and very common unwanted sound in this otherwise idyllic rural location. Recorded in Turville Heath, England by Cities and Memory.
2m Dec 10, 2025
2m
Turville Heath
"From the title I had imagined a wild open landscape with heather and peat bogs. But no, Turville Heath is more bucolic. So I felt it represents a loss of habitat, and the man made sounds have replaced other sounds except the stag and birds. "The piece is a lament and I have used the sounds of the jets, the stag and birds and the wind noise. All sounds bar the piano are sampled from the origin...
8m Dec 10, 2025
8m
Apple blossom
"A sonic meditation beneath the Apple Tree. Blossom surrounds you, falling softly from the branches. You are content, the sweet flesh of the apple satisfies the deep hunger within you, sweeter than any from a mortal realm. "Close your eyes, you are safe beneath the tree, safe in the ring of petals. In the distance, bells are calling. To pull you home? Maybe. But perhaps you should rest here a ...
15m Dec 09, 2025
15m
Indian cuckoo
As someone who lives in Northern Ireland, one of the most deforested countries in Europe, I was inspired by the forest ambience of Taman Negara in Malaysia, one of the worlds oldest tropical rainforests, and by a particular bird call at the heart of the recording. The Indian Cuckoo has a beautifully distinctive and musical two tone call, and it was fun to weave orchestral and electronic textur...
5m Dec 09, 2025
5m
Daytime in Taman Negara
"Immerse yourself in the timeless symphony of Taman Negara, one of the the world’s oldest rainforest, standing tall for 130 million years. As you close your eyes and listen, you’ll be transported to a lush, vibrant world. The gentle rustling of ancient trees swaying in the breeze creates a soothing, whispering backdrop. Birds, with their exotic calls, flit through the canopy, their songs echoi...
12m Dec 09, 2025
12m
Wat Indharaviharn
Outside the towering gold Buddha, the sound of soft clinking of wind chimes swaying in the breeze can be heard mingling with the sounds of the city and water features in the background. Recorded in Bangkok, Thailand by Jake Edwards.
9m Dec 09, 2025
9m
The Original Fishtown Singers
A group of singers clad in nautical outfits called The Original Fishtown Singers - "Fishtown" is the affectionate nickname given to the port town of Bremerhaven. Here the group change the lyrics of "Sloop John B" to refer to the town of Bremerhaven - a local flavour given to a universally-recognised song. Recorded by Cities and Memory, May 2025.
6m Dec 09, 2025
6m
March of Light 2025
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 aggressor - the Russian Federation. The video with the results of...
2m Dec 09, 2025
2m
Can't even do nothing
Our piece is inspired by a ‘March of Light’, a field recording from Austria. The rhythmic beat resembles a heartbeat. The voices that call out seem to be either a threat or a cry for help. The original piece has more darkness than light, and we worked to combine this with the tinkling melody of a steel band, which we recorded in London’s Angel Islington. Woven around this is our field recordin...
2m Dec 09, 2025
2m
Singing in the shower, song surfing
"The song 'Sloop John B' is sung in many languages and countries, I have sung it with friends in a pub myself, and the tune belies its gritty somewhat tragic lyrics as often happens in the folk tradition. I mused long and hard about how to treat it and decided as it is very much the type of song that becomes an 'ear worm', one that you only remember a few phrases of but sing incessantly, and th...
4m Dec 09, 2025
4m
Naja haje: the way knows the way
"Naja haje: the way knows the way honours the Egyptian cobra as a guide across myth, land, and memory. Inspired by ancestral ties to Morocco and our life in the Pacific Northwest, we entered into dialogue with the field recording—looping rhythm, layering voice, chalumeau, recorder, and drum—to explore how sound can restore relationships with the more-than-human world. The piece asks how honour...
13m Dec 08, 2025
13m
Spirituary
"Where does humanity presently sit in terms of faith, spirituality and striving for greatness? |Our recorded history manifests as a unified drive toward the divine. Modern existentialism folds in elements of increased division and loss of direction on the path to fulfilment. "We live in an era that measures progression and success with an obsessive focus on wide-spread improvement at every le...
5m Dec 08, 2025
5m
Mist over delay fields
"The track was built around a single, imperfect moment in time: a field recording I captured while walking through a tunnel by the main market. You can hear distant voices trading words, footsteps, fragments of conversations and the natural reverb of the tunnel itself. That recording became the spine of the piece – I didn’t treat it as background noise, but as the main “instrument”. "I started...
8m Dec 08, 2025
8m
Jardin remix
"I wanted to create a musical bed of just the bird vocalizations in the Jardin de Ayora without any instruments so I grabbed different moments in the recording, cutting and looping the parrots, pigeons and some migratory birds in the park. It took me some time to create the bed of bird sounds but I knew that I needed some low end emphasis so I introduced a bass drone and some other small, minim...
3m Dec 08, 2025
3m
Tre visi
‘Tre Visi’ explores the sonic identity of Treviso, Italy, anchoring itself in a field recording of the city’s Fontana delle Tre Facce (Fountain of the Three Faces). The piece explores the ambiguity of the city’s history and the debate between its potential ‘Three Hills’ Latin etymology and its Celtic origins. The production includes processed samples from a Celtic-like vocal melody alongside t...
4m Dec 08, 2025
4m
Dawn in two places
I chose this field recording because its sound world echoed the early-morning atmosphere of the Columbia River, a landscape that grounds me. I wove fragments of the original birds and frogs into a reimagined piece that balances two emotional currents: the meditative stillness of nature and the anxiety that often shadows life in the US right now. Asokore-Dabiasem amphibian sounds reimagined by ...
6m Dec 08, 2025
6m
Jingzhou City, South Gate
Jingzhou City is said to be one of China’s best-preserved ancient cities, dating back to the Warring States period, with its existing walls standing for 350 years—the most intact city relic in southern China. Unlike other cities turned into gated tourist sites, Jingzhou’s residents still bustle through its gate passages. This recording, captured in the South Gate’s barbican during the morning ...
3m Dec 08, 2025
3m
Microphone moving around the fountain
The "fountain of three faces" in Treviso, Italy has water coming from a three-faced figure on one head - here we move around the fountain to listen to it from different angles. Recorded by Cities and Memory, August 2024.
3m Dec 08, 2025
3m
Amphibian voices at dawn, Asokore-Dabiasem
Amphibian voices at dawn at Asokore-Dabiasem, Eastern Region, Ghana, recorded in A-B stereo. Identified frog species: Phrynobatrachus latifrons (Puddle Frogs) vocalising in granular textures. In the background are domestic fowls, birds, subtle swarm of unknown insects, human activity and low frequency engines. Asokore-Dabiasem is a new addition to areas in and around Koforidua where wetlands ...
15m Dec 08, 2025
15m
Traditional music in Jemaa el-Fnaa Square
This is a recording from Jemaa el-Fnaa Square in Marrakech, where locals are playing traditional Moroccan instruments. Among them is a special flute known for mesmerizing rattlesnakes, adding to the mix of curiosity and fear among us visitors. The atmosphere in the square was lively, with perfect weather, and the crowd couldn’t help but cheer and gather around the musicians. Recorded by Xiaoya...
1m Dec 08, 2025
1m
Catedral Basílica de Santiago de Compostela
Within the hallowed expanse of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, the organ resonates through centuries of devotion and artistry. Heard in this recording, the profound sonic environment of the historic basilica emerges as each note played on the grand organ seems to breathe life into the walls, carrying the weight of countless pilgrimages and prayers. As the music unfolds, it fills the space wi...
2m Dec 08, 2025
2m
Birds of the Jardin de Ayora
This was our last day in Valencia. After an amazing lunch of empanadas and waffles, my girlfriend and I decided to take a walk to the park near the metro station we'd use later for a quick commute to the airport. The park was filled with quaker parrots, pigeons, and collared doves, all singing, flying, mating, fighting, and creating a strange but very satisfying symphony (especially from a fie...
11m Dec 08, 2025
11m
Pierced heart
"Working with a field recording of an air show has been deeply gratifying. On an emotional level, it has allowed for something like sublimation or integration. Having attended the 1988 Flugtag air show in Germany (in which 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded), I still tend to experience visceral reactions to the sound of fighter jets or aerobatics. Creating something of my own out of thi...
8m Dec 07, 2025
8m
Take me back to Indonesia
"This work originates from a field recording captured in Madobag Village on the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia. In the recording, the sounds of children playing around an old well echo through the space. For me, this recording is not merely documentary material; it functions as a sonic memory that can transport me back to a particular moment and setting. It triggered my reflection on the gap bet...
7m Dec 07, 2025
7m
Acoustic vision from beyond - a Vietnamese funeral
"This composition was created using exclusively a recording of a traditional Vietnamese funeral ceremony. Fragments were taken from the original track and subsequently manipulated. "In particular, the resonances produced by the percussive instrument were extracted, thus creating long sound bands, onto which the distant dirge is grafted. The intent was to create an internal acoustic vision imag...
6m Dec 07, 2025
6m
Red Arrows flypast, Southport air show
The Red Arrows display team flying over Southport at the annual air show in July 2024, with the sound of spectators in the background. Recorded by Stewart Hoyle.
12m Dec 07, 2025
12m