Dreamfall
"This piece is about where we go when we are asleep and the different states of our sleep. I began by listening to the original sound which is described by the recordist as a 360 degree recording of a waterfall. I was intrigued by the subtle changes to the sound as the microphone moves around. I decided that I would keep the recording intact as it would be very difficult to break it up. My th...
3m Sep 05, 2023
3m
Nightmare (behind the yellow line)
"'Nightmare (behind the yellow line)' is the story of someone waiting at a train station for a lover who will never arrive. I interpreted the theme "music for sleep" by playing with the presence of nightmares. The original sound has been slightly modified to accentuate the haunting ambiance and melancholic tones of the composition, used to set a sombre mood that ideally, resonates with the list...
4m Sep 05, 2023
4m
Giant sleep
"I did minimal edits on this magical field recording from Australia, composing musical cells that directly connect to its sound-structures, adding multi-track piano with multi-track e-bows on piano strings, in static and traveling spatialisations. "Giant Sleep" feels to me like all kinds of literal or metaphorical sleep, where we exist in and outside of ourselves, like slumbering giants, where ...
6m Sep 05, 2023
6m
Distant train
"This is a recording from a night of open air camping that captures different relations to sleeping outdoors: the momentarily interrupted sleep of the recordist, the sounds of a distant train that occasioned this late-night recording session, and the snores of other campers resting uninterrupted." Recorded by John Savarese. Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hea...
1m Sep 05, 2023
1m
Great Sound, Bermuda
"Overlooking Cavello Bay which overlooks Great Sound.  The sound of waves on the shore." Recorded by Mark Wilden. Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/
2m Sep 05, 2023
2m
Salto do Prego waterfall, Azores
"Standing directly above a waterfall in the Azores, with a slow 360 degree sweep of the recorder to capture different aspect and angles of the soundscape as the recording develops." Recorded by Cities and Memory. Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/
3m Sep 05, 2023
3m
Leeton hums
"Longtime listeners might recognise the hum of Leeton's rice facility from previous projects and this recording includes my army of wind organs, which were installed in the front yard for an Art Trail last weekend. I find their gentle chortling relaxing and my partner Jo described how they became a soundtrack to her dreaming, possibly because of the strong southerlies at that time." Recorded ...
5m Sep 05, 2023
5m
Duet with the summer in Santarcangelo
This piece is a duet between the summer song of the cicadas on a hot afternoon in Santarcangelo, and an unusual miniature orchestra of brass, strings and synthesisers. The long, sometimes juddering pulses of bass, brass and strings signify the slow lengthening of a hot day, while the bubbling arpeggios are musical mirrors of the cicadas themselves. Cicadas in Santarcangelo reimagined by Cities...
5m Aug 21, 2023
5m
Cicada songs in Santarcangelo
Cicadas in the afternoon playing in a camp site that was especially set up for the Santarcangelo Festival in the backyard of the city's Ethnographic Museum, in Santarcangelo, Italy. Recorded by Alexandra Genzini. IMAGE: N.monte, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
1m Aug 21, 2023
1m
This train stops for no one
Perpetual motion. Railways that never sleep. Logistics, supplies, people, transit - these silver bullets fire north, south, east and west across the country, but they bring life, bring communication, bring energy. This piece takes a single railroad crossing in Japan as its starting point and zooms out, first to view every train making its way across the city, then the prefecture, then the islan...
4m Aug 20, 2023
4m
Railroad crossing, Imizu City, Japan
"This is the sound recorded near the railroad crossing. It was recorded at night, so you can only hear the sound of railroad crossings and trains passing by." Recorded by Sekifuji Naotaka.
1m Aug 20, 2023
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A dream from my past self
"The original field recording of lapping waves has an extraordinary relaxing quality to it, and I was captivated by recordist Rafael Diogo's introduction to his sound: 'We all have our dreams about special places and it feels like my past self had the dream to visit ​Perast.' "The composition is therefore based on the idea of a dream emerging from one's subconscious, as the waves of bass and s...
5m Aug 12, 2023
5m
Dance of the cicadas
"This piece serves as an example of sound art created from the soundscape I recorded at Liqeni Artificial i Tiranes. In this work, I have replicated the acoustic environment characterized by the presence of numerous cicadas, enhancing it with a cinematic effect." The sound of numerous cicadas at Liqeni Artificial I Tiranes, Albania reimagined by Uğur Aslan.
2m Aug 05, 2023
2m
Soundscape of Liqeni Artificial I Tiranes
"This soundscape was captured at Liqeni Artificial I Tiranes, Albania. In this vibrant acoustic environment, the voices of numerous cicadas blend harmoniously, emanating from all directions. To capture this immersive experience, I stood in the center of a dirt road while making the recording." Recorded by Uğur Aslan.
2m Aug 05, 2023
2m
Calling
Muezzin call in Mahdia, Tunisia reimagined by Andy Cartwright. "I blended some layers of minimal pulses from a synth to create the effect of trance and breath."
3m Jul 08, 2023
3m
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road
"For this composition, developed on a beautifully sunny weekend with the warm summer air blowing in through open windows,  I set myself the challenge of working on something optimistic and upbeat. "Having been reading Walt Whitman recently, I started with his poem "Song of the Open Road" in mind (from which the title comes) and wanted to convey some of the feeling of that work in this piece. ...
3m Jun 12, 2023
3m
Subclinical bicultural clubhauling
"I took the already dense source material and layered it in reverse, before improvising the melodic parts. The glitchy finale is the original sample mangled." Bob's Bar in Bengaluru reimagined by Michael Lilley.
8m Jun 12, 2023
8m
An evening at Bob's Bar, Bengaluru
"Bob's bar, where the sound was recorded, is central to the social scene of the city. As the week comes to an end, numerous city folks, most of whom are youngsters, occupy the tables at the bar. In this phone recording, we hear multiple conversations and youthful laughter, all merging together into a trance-like sound , as if coming out of the mouth of a giant organism. This, further merges wit...
2m Jun 12, 2023
2m
First light
"In this track we hear the wonderful variety of Earth’s natural radio emissions captured by the Halley VLF receiver on the day of the first sunrise after the long austral winter. We hear the crackles and pops of spherics, the descending tones of lightning generated whistlers and the rising and falling tones of whistler mode chorus. We have worked with the 'sounds' of Halley before but here we f...
6m Jun 05, 2023
6m
The sounds of space
A compilation of the 'sounds' of Earth's natural radio emissions as recorded by a remote VLF receiver at the Halley VI research station in Antarctica. Recorded by the Sounds of Space Project.
4m Jun 05, 2023
4m
Aurora musicalis
"The sounds of Earth's natural radio emissions as recorded by a remote VLF receiver at Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica accompanied by ambient music on a grand piano." Sounds of space from Halley VI research station reimagined by Sounds of Space Project.
4m Jun 05, 2023
4m
There’s a tree walking around in the rain
Just as the patterns of falling rain create their own rhythms and melodies almost like a generative process, so this piece uses generative chord and melodic patterns as the basis of a piece that aims to reflect the mood of gazing out of the window at falling rain and losing yourself in thought and contemplation. As a quirk, in the original field recording we can hear the recordist saying one w...
7m May 31, 2023
7m
The rhythmic crescendo of rain
Rain falling under a metal drum, recorded in Newcastle, England in 2015 by Tim Shaw. You can hear the rain hitting the metal surface fairly gently initially, before building in intensity as a rhythmic crescendo.
10m May 31, 2023
10m
An airport prelude
"This is a loose piece built from a scene in an airport waiting area. The soundscape is sparse: low background conversation; the chirps of either birds or sneakers; an idly whistled tune; and toddler jargon - from a phase of speech where words are beginning to come into coherence. Those sounds provided the main musical cues and phrases. I started at the middle, learned and played the vocal phra...
3m May 19, 2023
3m
A light comes in the end
"I loved the sound of the church bells so I made a small Spring Equinox song based on the melody. I made a field recording of the song with my friend Bárbara de Sá in the Jardim Gulbenkian in Lisbon, then put the two field recordings together." Sete Cidades bells reimagined by Melaina Barnes.
4m May 19, 2023
4m
Wroclaw train station ambience
The recording includes sounds from train station platforms - announcements of approaching and arriving trains and sounds of standing and passing trains. You can hear a lot of word "pociag" there - it means "train" in Polish. The recording was made with a Free Space Pro II binaural microphone (3DIO Sound). Link to map: https://goo.gl/maps/JahBCKjsfH7ZbPEF8 Recorded by Artur Olejarczyk.
16m May 19, 2023
16m
The sound of the stands at Amkar Perm FC, Russia
"The oldest stadium in Perm, Russia. The main football club of the city. The most loyal red-black fans and their support. Amkar Perm FC." Recorded provided by Amkar Perm FC.
1m May 19, 2023
1m
Airport ambience, Los Angeles
Sounds from inside the terminals at the major Los Angeles LAX airport. Recorded by Marcel Gnauk. IMAGE: Andre m, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
3m May 19, 2023
3m
Wroclaw station - rush hour
"Railway stations always have a particular quality of sound. They are reverberant and boomy but they also have a particular rhythm. Artur Olejarczyk’s original recording made me think of all the times I have arrived in a new station, in a new city. I wanted to compress his timing into a more hectic mix by layering the sounds of the trains accelerating out of, and passing through, the station an...
4m May 19, 2023
4m
Spatial governmentality
"The only sound source is the provided sample. Transposed, stretched, sliced, filtered, reversed, cut and stitched. "A poem comes with the piece: "Localized globality. Scattered citizen participation processes. Cold commodification of the cities and subjects. Demonstrations. Surrogate actions. Privacy as spatial oppression. Be homeless, fear your shelter."" Oxford housing protest reimagined b...
6m May 19, 2023
6m
Atonal church bells, Sete Cidades
The church bells in Sete Cidades in the Azores ring out - they are somewhat atonal and out of tune, making for a less harmonious soundscape than you would usually expect from church bells - birds nesting in the trees either side of a path leading up to the church provide a more melodious accompaniment.  Recorded by Cities and Memory.
3m May 19, 2023
3m
Housing is a human right
A protest by the Acorn organisation on the theme of "Housing is a human right", Oxford, UK, July 2021. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
1m May 19, 2023
1m
песнь (chant)
"This experimental piece is primarily comprised of the original chant with the addition of an excerpt from the Russian folk song "Kalinka" and a few orchestral elements processed via tape loops and various effects." Amkar Perm FC crowd reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman.
4m May 19, 2023
4m
A fleeting thought, forgotten
"The recording was one of all the sounds that make up a reverent silence. I started layering that recorded silence, placing accents, finding sounds that I liked and started building from there, responding, first with piano, then other elements, to the sounds that I heard, and built the resulting track from there." Hallgrimskirkja reimagined by de Velden.
4m May 15, 2023
4m
Red Rebel demonstration (rtfct / Jeremy Sklad remix)
"Created entirely out of waveforms from the climate demonstration field recording and a violin; mainly using a sampler for some kind of granular synthesis. Messy, saturated, noisy, frantic; urgent climate crisis." Edinburgh climate protest reimagined by Jeremy Sklad (rtfct).
5m May 15, 2023
5m
Underground
"I remember the Paris subway with some fondness, from the time I was studying philosophy in France. The sound was mostly noise and clamour, and the busy hours were full of images and encounters. The field recording reminds me of the speed and the rush of novelty I felt as I moved through the city, finding new places and new experiences. There is excitement and anticipation in the sound, and I'v...
6m May 15, 2023
6m
Ravens 2023
"Mythologically, ravens are often tricksters. They can also be associated with healing. We live in tricky times and the world is needing a lot of healing. As I understand it, Bosnia has suffered from a great deal of conflict. I thought it would be good to let the calls of the ravens be a call for peace.  I used a lot of granular synthesis of the original ravens recording and added some kind of ...
3m May 15, 2023
3m
Red Rebels at Edinburgh's climate protest
On Saturday 12 November 2022 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 is of a demonstration by Red Rebels, a single bass...
5m May 15, 2023
5m
Inside the Hallgrimskirkja
Tourist moving inside the Hallgrimskirkja church, Reykjavik, Iceland. Recorded by Richard Watts.
3m May 15, 2023
3m
Metro to Chatelet, Paris
The Parisian metro between Hotel de ville and Chatelet. Door closing signal, the doors close, it accelerates, some people speak in the background, the next station is announced, the metro breaks, the doors open, I get out, some announcements are heard in the distance, then the door signal -which is cut short. Recorded by Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski.
1m May 15, 2023
1m
Sea at full moon (LA mix)
"For the production of this piece, I just imagined being by the sea, at night, with a full moon, just like in Diogo's original recording, contemplating the soundscape and the landscape and in contact with a state of mind full of tranquility. for its construction I used electric guitar and some of the many effects of Guitar Rig." Sea in Mahdia reimagined by Luis Antero.
8m May 15, 2023
8m
HoChiMixCity
"It is always a privilege to hear foreign languages. We are so lucky to have access to a rich variety of languages in our world. In languages that we cannot understand, our brain automatically listens for patterns and rhythms to try to interpret the sounds. Market traders also bring a musical magic to their phrases. This original recording is so rich with patterns and musical phrases I barely n...
3m May 15, 2023
3m
She landed on her pinky toe and she froze it (sketch)
"The fieldrecording of an art fair inspired me to think about the art world and the social event of an opening itself. A word to Text AI discovered some words in the mumbling. Those became the text line of my sketch. I call it a sketch because my goal is to perform it with a real choir." Madison art fair reimagined by Anna Schimkat.
3m May 15, 2023
3m
Traditional cafe, Tunisia
"I have kept the main chatter of the cafe echoed  and slightly adjusted repeats of the chatter and added some music to give ambience which I like to feel gives the sense of moving around the cafe." Cafe in Mahdia reimagined by Stuart Renshaw.
2m May 15, 2023
2m
Exploring the art fair, Madison
Recorded discreetly on July 9th, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA while walking though a crowed art fair using a pair of LOM mikroUši Pro microphones. Recorded by Daniel Braun.
12m May 15, 2023
12m
Street vendors in Ho Chi Min City
Banh mi SaiGon seller sound, Banh gio seller sound, Hot ga nuong seller sound and ve chai seller sound in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam. Recorded by Maei.
1m May 15, 2023
1m
Symphony in celebration of the Montgolfier brothers
"A composition built around the concept of ascension, using a field recording of a hot air balloon ride. "At each blast of the burner, the balloon rises, and the composition responds by building in a new layer of sound. "The palette of sounds has been kept to spacious, airy synth pads, open brass notes and a colouring of piano notes and strings to communicate height, space, freedom and to vis...
5m May 13, 2023
5m
Love to lose you with me
"I really thought about the ambience of the original recording , the setting and what kind of memories it triggered. I wanted the track to be really earthy with acoustic instruments and singing. A song if you like. It reminded me of the feeling you get when meeting a fellow traveller, a kindred spirit, which, at the time,  seems so improbable in the grand scheme of things. The words came as th...
5m May 13, 2023
5m
Holy land
"The record brought a feeling of the ancient and modern synergising to create a blend of culture that attracts modernity towards it rather than fading. The processed recording acts as an instruments that blends with various traditional instruments from the world." Western Wall, Jerusalem reimagined by Wahinya Mwirikia (Riqi).
3m May 13, 2023
3m
Melodies and critters, Koforidua, Ghana
Repetitive melodious calls of insects in distinctive channels recorded at a roadside in the evening. Distant frogs, human voices, movements, autos and distant music can be heard. The beautiful melodies of the insects in the foreground are marred by loud entertainment centres near quiet settlements. There is however an idea to involve the community in listening to these melodies in archived for...
2m May 13, 2023
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