Da Lat evening song
A gentle evening of curious animal and insect calls, as people slow their day into the night. Recorded by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe in Da Lat, Vietnam.
3m Dec 21, 2023
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Evening song
"Starts with mainly original sounds transformed, goes a bit techno-y in the middle." Da Lat evening song reimagined by Isabel de Berrie.
1m Dec 21, 2023
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Rain song
"Upon first hearing this field recording of a steady rainfall it reminded me of rainy nights spent writing at my favorite cafes. I decided to write a song lyric and layer it over the sound." Rain storm in Ghana reimagined by Christina Lucchesi.
1m Dec 20, 2023
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The performance
"A celebration of the original field recording. The majority of the synth sounds were created from snippets of it, transformed by the magic of Synplant. Much inspiration provided by listening to the songs of tree frogs. Lead synth melody by the amazing Amy C." Amphibians in Ghana reimagined by Alex Vald.
4m Dec 20, 2023
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Tropical rain and thunder under a roof
Rains and thunders at midday under a roof in suburban Ghana. Sounds lo-fi and roomy due to the natural acoustics of the room. Recorded in binaural, please wear headphones. Recorded in Koforidua, Ghana by Samuel Kudjodzi.
16m Dec 20, 2023
16m
Rain showers and an amphibian performance
Different species of amphibians vocalising through rain showers. Wind gusts serve as baseline frequency, and a motor engine can be heard in some part. Recorded in Koforidua, Ghana by Samuel Kudjodzi.
12m Dec 20, 2023
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Striving
"I was inspired by the power and strength behind the serves of the two tennis players. Striving is a reflection of that power, along with what must be intense focus and hard work to get to that level of play." Wimbledon Ladies' Singles match reimagined by Baying Ridges.
4m Dec 20, 2023
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On court at Wimbledon
Bouzkova vs. Vondrousova on Court Two at Wimbledon, 9 July 2023. It's the first set and Bouzkova is serving. Vondrousova would go on to become the 2023 Ladies' Singles champion. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
3m Dec 20, 2023
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Traditional Scottish bagpipe player
A quiet and misty morning outside the Highland Games Centre in Braemar, Scotland. A rainy day in October and a bagpipe player performs a traditional piece for a group of tourists (a woman can be heard singing along gently alongside). Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti.
2m Dec 20, 2023
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A Highland romance, the field of dreaming
"The sound was evocative. It reminded my of being on Culloden moor as a child in the swirling mist with an unseen piper. I then fought of other times were I've had a strong connection to the pipes. Sometimes negative but always powerful. Includes recordings I took of a battle re-enactment in Stirling and of Scotland playing at Hampden." Scottish bagpipe player reimagined by Euan McAleece.
3m Dec 20, 2023
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Manteigas (Wind and birds live dub mix)
"I'm always a fan of incorporating field recordings into my music. After listening to the original nature recording for the first time, I had the idea of taking up the melody of the birds and accompanying it with a synth sound. I mainly work in Ableton Live, where I tried out the "Harmony 2 MIDI" function. I cut the field recording and used several places with the original track. Then I added a...
8m Dec 20, 2023
8m
L´Ainsia
"Let WHΛLT THISИEY's music be your passport to unexplored dimensions, where imagination reigns and new immersive environments come to life." L'Ainsia castle soundscape reimagined by WHΛLTHISИEY.
2m Dec 20, 2023
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Reality and beyond
"The interpretation of the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne in Toulouse describes various temporal and spatial layers of the atmosphere. Acoustic interventions forwards and backwards and moments of pausing create an expansion of reality, which is partially freed from everyday life and functionality by surreal elements and voices. The result is a maelstrom of reality, in which many things become audible...
6m Dec 20, 2023
6m
In St. Etienne cathedral
Whispering and barking in the Saint-Etienne cathedral, Toulouse. Recorded by Dan Capture.
11m Dec 20, 2023
11m
Wind and birds on a Portuguese mountain
Wind and bird sounds from Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain in continental Portugal. Recorded by Luís Antero.
7m Dec 20, 2023
7m
Plaza Mayor de L'Ainsa
From the top of the wall of the old castle of L'Ainsa, in the Sobrarbe region in Aragon, Spain, you can hear the voices of tourists, birds of prey flying around us and there, in the distance, the mountain. Recorded by Chuse Fernandez.
2m Dec 20, 2023
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Crickets and coyotes
The sound of crickets is a nighttime sound. During this recording a pack of coyotes were howling. Recorded in Tiny, Ontario by Anton Pickard.
20m Dec 20, 2023
20m
Cicadas in the midday Greek heat
Greek village in the remote island of Ikaria. Town square - cicadas in the midday heat and maybe some distant voices of villagers. Recorded by Ioannis Valasakis.
7m Dec 20, 2023
7m
The train journey (RER B)
In a hot and stuffy train, people talk quietly between themselves and the train carriage sways back and forth. A passenger seated next to the window closes their eyes and drifts off to sleep.
16m Dec 20, 2023
16m
Backyard dawn chorus
Birdsong early in the morning recorded in a semi-rural backyard in Tiny, Ontario. Natural sounds are always relaxing for me. Recorded by Anton Pickard.
20m Dec 20, 2023
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Let's begin again – dawn
"Inspired by birdsong at dawn and the sounds of nature, we created this sound media capsule to remind us that sound can be used to tell tales and sell dreams. Nature communicates with us - if we just listen. We embedded the sound of pipes singing with the wind – air blowing through metal – making a sound which wrapped itself around the birdsong. These pipes are part of an installation sculptu...
2m Dec 20, 2023
2m
Crypto timpani
"Crypto Timpani is a work whose sound seed is the song of cicadas. I experimented with different digital synthesis and other processing techniques and effects to generate new approaches and sensations that could evoke new ways of perceiving nature. I mostly used processes and effects from GRM Tools and Puremagnetik, as well as audio stretching tools, pitch shifters, and effects like reverbs and...
5m Dec 20, 2023
5m
Crickets and coyotes
"I was immediately drawn to the promise of “coyotes at 15 minutes” in the description of the recording. I heard the coyotes as a chamber choir singing some close-interval music and so set about trying to reveal that with very little interference on my part. Their melodic material becomes harmonic, as if you had pressed the sustain pedal on a piano." Crickets and coyotes in Ontario reimagined ...
13m Dec 20, 2023
13m
Sous les ponts de Paris revisité
"I started off with a grandiose scheme to produce a homage to 'Musique Concrète', the birthplace of which was Paris. I'd also found a PD recording (1922) of "Under The Bridges Of Paris" by the so-called "Queen of the Whistlers", Margaret McKee, which I decided to sample. After several weeks work, I wasn't happy with where this was going, so, with just a few days to go to the deadline I junked a...
8m Dec 20, 2023
8m
Kotor Bay
"I've been fortunate to have visited Kotor and explore both the medieval fortifications and the more recent Cold War-era submarine tunnels. When processed with Logic Pro, the sound of water from the recording seemed to have a natural rhythm. Coupling that with the concrete tunnels' own very long reverberations immediately sparked my imagination into thinking what it would sound like if I could ...
6m Dec 20, 2023
6m
Do the Tony Mowbray
"Hearing the raw feeling with which these Sunderland fans sing an apparently silly tribute to their manager prompted me to write a simple song about how emotional we can all get over something as trivial as football. The sacking of Tony Mowbray during this project brought out something especially sad about the intense but fleeting bonds that form between football's practitioners and their audie...
5m Dec 20, 2023
5m
Sounds of Macedonia
"As a cosmopolitan living in different parts of the world, and always having an opportunity to encounter different cultures and people, Macedonian music allows me to represent myself and my country. This composition, through the fusion of two Macedonian traditional songs, ‘Ajde, dali znaes, pametis, Milice’ and ‘Sto mi e milo, em drago ma Kojnik dukan da imam’ and the soundscape of the Alexande...
4m Dec 20, 2023
4m
In Kotor Bay
If you are not wandering lost in the labyrinth of the old town, you might just be exploring the vast stunning Bay of Kotor, or Boka for the locals. As you travel its length, the Montenegrin coastline had a great impact on me as it gave me that feeling of the stillness and peace that I was craving. Along the walk alongside the Adriatic Sea, I had the privilege of enjoying the well-preserved med...
1m Dec 20, 2023
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The Alexander the Great fountain
The monument of Alexander the Great in Skopje is a colossal 24 meter tall statue with a large fountain and dozens of water jets. Here is a 10-minute excerpt of the very, very long song of the waters of the fountain. Recorded by Manu Hollard.
10m Dec 20, 2023
10m
Everybody's doing the Tony Mowbray
Supporters of Sunderland football club on an away trip to Millwall in February 2023. Exiting the nearest train station at South Bermondsey, they break out into songs - this one is about their club manager at the time. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
1m Dec 20, 2023
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Coastal breeze, Gjipe
"The coastal breeze dances with the gentle waves of Gjipe's sea, creating a tranquil symphony reminiscent of a serene desert beach. This place, nestled in remote Albania, stirs the curiosity of only a select few, yet it holds the power to leave an indelible mark on the hearts of those who dare to venture." Recorded in Gjipe, Albania by Rafael Diogo.
7m Dec 19, 2023
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Far away Albania
"A sea can be calm, turbulent and ominous and is home to many stories. After hearing the sound of the sea in Albania, I wanted to draw a storyline with its features on which you can give free rein to your own imagination." Gjipe waves reimagined by Ard Janssen.
15m Dec 19, 2023
15m
Shaky canon
"The recording of frogs in Thailand reminded me of a shaky canon. To reinforce this I used a sampler to layer the sample gradually added delay. Otherwise, the recording was not cut and no additional sounds were added." Thai frogs reimagined by Nihad El-Kayed.
6m Dec 19, 2023
6m
Thai frogs after rainfall
Frogs croaking after heavy rainfall in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recorded by Alex Boyesen.
5m Dec 19, 2023
5m
Lark
"An ambient mix recorded with inspiration from a day spent on an Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, UK. Guitar and synthesisers processed through analog tape, merging with the sound of a Skylark descending from the sky." Skylarks in Dorset reimagined by Ezra Gray.
3m Dec 18, 2023
3m
Skylark descending
'A late summer's evening on Eggardon Hill, Dorset. A Skylark sings and descends while rooks chatter and a flurry of Dunnocks fly across the hillfort." Recorded by Ezra Gray.
3m Dec 18, 2023
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Early morning Valencian bakery ambience
It's 04:30 AM in one of Valencia's oldest bakeries, Forn Desamparats. The bakery assistant begins preparations before opening at 06:30 AM. You'll hear the baker meticulously measuring ingredients, the kneading of dough, and the clinking of baking utensils. Forn Desamparats continues to thrive as a family-owned bakery in the heart of Valencia, while most similar local bakeries have either been c...
6m Dec 18, 2023
6m
Footsteps in troglodyte Church Baux de Provence
Baux de Provence is a very touristic village. Most houses there are partially carved in existing rocks. The very old Roman and Gothic style church St Vincent is also made in rock many centuries ago. The acoustics are nice and if you go there after the summer holidays you can enter and be all alone as there are far less tourists. The recording captures footsteps and some birds you can still hear...
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Da Lat evening karaoke
On a breezy but warm evening, karaoke fills the air and billows with the insects of the night. Recorded in Da Lat, Vietnam by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe.
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Packing away the market
Sounds of the walking street market being packed away in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Recorded by Alex Boyesen.
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
Arcade chaos
Arcade Plaza with lots of different games playing music all at once. Recorded in Sydney, Australia by Richard Watts.
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
A Saturday night in Testaccio
Hanging out in the Testaccio district on a Saturday evening in a small piazza, where children play football, families chat, young people smoke and drink. We take a walk around the whole perimeter of the piazza to record the sounds from all sides. Recorded in Rome, April 2023 by Cities and Memory.
4m Dec 18, 2023
4m
Soundscape with small frogs and roosters
Early evening soundscape with small frogs and roosters. Deshaies, Guadeloupe on September 19, 2019. Recorded by Azadeh Nilchiani.
4m Dec 18, 2023
4m
Powerlooms of Cubbonpete
Walking through the Cubbonpete with two shoulder-mounted condenser mics and a field recorder in my backpack, I was able to capture the sounds of several power-loom industries located in the tiny back-roads. The looms "loom" into focus as I approach them and fade out as I walk away, and each of them carries a distinctive mechanised rhythmic repetitive noise that can be heard clearly, even from o...
4m Dec 18, 2023
4m
Ciao
"For so many, Autumn can be a lovely time of year. For many others, it can be difficult. Cold, rainy, windswept piers. Broken umbrellas in garbage bins. Filthy birds fighting over discarded fish and chips. Warm beer and stale cigarettes. Stubborn sunsets holding high hopes or false promises. Long, sleepless nights. And questions. Lots of questions. The field recording by Richard Watts spoke to...
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Take a step
"Using the main sound - echoing footsteps - I created a story of walking from place to place and encountering new soundscapes on the way. I got inspiration from the background sounds of the recording - like the occasional howling wind and the birds. I then used some of my own field recordings to enhance these elements (wind at the Danish sand dune Råbjerg Mile and a birdsong from a bog in Eston...
6m Dec 18, 2023
6m
Voices in the machine
"I loved this field recording so much, which actually made it hard to work with because I didn’t want to change it. So I used it as an inspiration and added new elements to it. I became interested in the people who are working these power looms, who are often invisible in society, and in art. I found a poem by Margaret Theresa Wightman who worked at the end of the 19th century in millinery fact...
5m Dec 18, 2023
5m
Piazza scene
"The field recording was so lively and conveyed so much fun that I wanted to take that atmosphere and play with it. I selected about 12 individual sounds from the original that reflected this idea best, e.g. kids yelling and playing ball, dogs barking, women laughing, a bottle rolling on the ground. These "snippets" were then combined in loops with other pre-recorded sounds, creating a piece al...
2m Dec 18, 2023
2m
Morning bakery (Andy Lyon reimagining)
"The recording has lots of percussive elements such as scrapes, impacts and swirls. I've used these sounds and their inherent rhythms with various delays, reverbs and a hint of glitch to weave minimal and ambient elements into a percussive, rhythmic track." Valencia bakery reimagined by Andy Lyon.
5m Dec 18, 2023
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You gotta tap in
"The birdsong felt cyclical and ambient. We imagined walking through a jungle on a planet outside our solar system, and filled the jungle with creatures - some were made with synthesizers, others were made by repitching acoustic instruments." Guadeloupe birdsong reimagined by Sous Chef & Nico Scolieri.
5m Dec 18, 2023
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