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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory

Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world. The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world. What you"ll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those

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4:14

Being the strength of the air and the grace of the land

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/10

Based on a recording made atop the tallest peak in Thailand, Doi Inthanon, this piece evokes the wonder of looking out across the entire country, with the sounds of birdsong reverberating around you. The slightly clipped bass sounds, and the whole mix being sent through a tape doubler, gives a woozy sense of height and breathlessness, while the synth pads and manipulated guitars are an expression of the beauty of the natural order of things. Towards the top of the peak stand two adjacent chedis,

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7:28

The crow that haunts the station

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/10

A lively resident crow is the star in this walkthrough of Gare de Lyon in Paris - while we can hear the usual hall reverb, trolley bags, travellers chatting away and platform announcements, this crow is letting his presence be known to everyone, cawing loudly and persistently as if to say "hey, this station is mine too, you know!". Recorded in Paris, France in February 2026 by Cities and Memory.

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9:22

Une madeleine sonique

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/10

"Four years in France, regular trips From near Lyon to Paris, via the Gare de Lyon and my familiars — the crows — the track evoked those memories."Gare de Lyon, Paris reimagined by Dennis Moser.

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0:20

The nature sounds of Doi Inthanon

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/10

Hiking at the Kew Mae Pan trail, Chiang Mai, Thailand. With the perfect view of nature things at the top of the mountain. A little bit tired but it was such a happy day.Recorded by sound_of__memories.Photo by Ash Edmonds on Unsplash.

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3:45

Lamma jamma Hong Kong

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/09

"When I received the field recording by Daniel Mackenzie I thought 'what an absolute gift!' All the elements to make a remix are all contained in the original field recording. I used a Roland SP404 mk2 to sketch out the fundamentals, and to focus on what parts to sample, and mastered in Ableton. "Rudimentary effects were used (filters, eq, delay & reverb) but no synths whatsoever; the piece only contains samples from the original field recording. "I had an absolute blast doing this, and I hope

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4:00

Yung Shue Wan playground

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/09

A recording taken which captures a moment of life away from the intensity that Hong Kong is associated with. Lamma Island is a short boat ride away and has a unique calm that is almost unimaginable when you've spent several weeks in the nearby city. The sounds of children playing are atmospheric and contrasting against passing vehicles, and occasional sounds of wildlife.Recorded by Daniel Mackenzie.

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3:30

Mayenne

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/08

"The tranquil atmosphere of the field recording, the birdsong and the soft cooing of the pigeons in the background immediately appealed to me."First, I spectrally cleaned the recording in an attempt to distil its acoustic essence. The next step was to isolate individual distinctive sounds and rearrange them in time. These form the intro and outro of the piece."Secondly, I was faced with the question: what actually defines the location of the recording, Mayenne in France? The answer to this, spoken

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4:33

4.33 in Mayenne

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/08

We can hear the "noises" coming from the garden of the house. This house is located at the entrance to the city, right behind a commercial area.It is around 10:30 this Saturday, February 22, 2025.The sun emerging from the gray morning mass, birds, light and other small elements are taking possession of the place.The walls cut off the sounds coming from the commercial area, the garden extends to the edge of the river below.In the distance, we can hear the sounds of the city.Nature is right next to

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2:54

Maasai tribe: songs of the widows

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/08

| This recording captures the Maasai people living in one of the most remote regions of Kenya, near the invisible borders with Tanzania in the Loita Hills. It focuses on various Maasai widows as they work, their movements intertwined with the melodic songs they sing in their native language. Their voices carry the weight of experience, tradition, and resilience, echoing across the village and surrounding landscape.The environment unfolds through subtle layers of sound. The rhythm of daily work,

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16:16

Maasai 94

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/08

"The moment I received the sound file, I was pretty assured I knew exactly what I was going to do. While the words of the tribal song change, the melody alongside the call & response from the widows of the Maasai tribe of Kenya spoke to me in its repetitious, looped like fashion, and as such, I wanted to treat the file a bit like how Reich did his seminal minimalist "Come Out" (1966) composition, and as such I looped, layered, delayed, and effected layers upon layers of the widows singing,

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4:21

Glint

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/07

"The original sound recording immediately reminded me of peaceful moments spent watching light glinting on the water. I improvised to the birds, the sound of the water lapping against the dock and what I imagined to be the sunlight shimmering on the water. "Each time I sat at the piano, I listened out for a different element to respond to and then played around with the sound of each part. I wanted to place myself on that dock, dipping my feet into the cool water, surrounded by all these blissful

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4:40

Floating dock on Lake Chiusi

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/07

The recording is from April 7, 2025 and was made at Lake Chiusi located in the Val di Chiana in the province of Siena, Tuscany. A small floating dock was chosen as the audio recording point. The banging of the dock accompanies the listening of the lake soundscape. It is the lake itself that, with its movement, 'plays' this dock. The random rhythm generated is grafted onto the very rich acoustic environment of the lake.Recorded by Nicola Fumo Frattegiani.

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5:18

Tricycle ride to the Castillo fish port

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/07

The day is coming to an end for the small port town of Cabusao, with most bamboo boats securely tied to the seawall bordering the makeshift and cement homes of the people to restless horizon of the San Miguel Bay. High tide approaches, so two biologists take a battered old tricycle to catch their boat home before the waves get too strong for their ride to dock safely for boarding. From the guttural sputtering of the old motorcycle to the bendy creaking of the rusty carriage, imagine the fish port

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6:58

Cabusao flow

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/07

"The recording I chose was quite full on, noise-wise, but also incredibly evocative. It felt like a travelogue, and inspired by this and an old audio montage technique used by 'Bomb The Bass' on their debut album 'Into The Dragon', I decided to create a kind of jangling, noisy audio travelogue, featuring localised Filipino radio broadcasts, classical Filipino music, youth-oriented TV interviews, and a sampled, looped, heavily treated rhythm; all anchored by the fluctuating, almost synth-like drone

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5:54

Grooky

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/07

"For this project, I've chosen a recording that was - very appropriately- named "Loud morning walkers on quiet street". Between other choices, this was the only recording, that made me pause to think about human nature. I became interested in its sonic layers, that oscillated between serenity and chaos. "My idea was to study this interplay, to dissect the parts and to re-imagine a new sonic landscape, where different rhythm patterns represented different textures of the human activity. I've used

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15:18

Loud morning walkers on a quiet street

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/07

The random summer sounds include bird song, dog walkers, a truck, a garden sprinkler and a cough. However, the event (7:28) is the loud Cantonese-speaking group of woman passing by on their daily walk – always around 9:30 am and always very animated! I do not know what they say to one another. Recorded in Vancouver, Canada by Emiko Morita.

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3:44

The S-Bahn game (Win 3.1)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/02

"The piece is made up entirely of samples from the field recordings, chopped, filtered and mangled, with the exception of "Game Over". The overall piece sounded like a retro computer game. Further research revealed that the dashboard software on S-Bahn trains is Windows 3.11!"S-Bahn trip in Berlin reimagined by Simon Woods.

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6:10

On the S-Bahn to Hauptbahnhof

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/02

An S-bahn journey from Savignyplatz to the Hauptbahnhof in Berlin - train sounds, doors opening and closing, announcements in German, September 2025. Recorded by Cities and Memory.

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3:29

Ekalecarret

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/02

"I transformed the original field recording into a more dronish soundscape and added some subtle guitar layers over it. The result feels like a warm atmospheric cinematic piece. I think the edit of this field recording offers further opportunities for more (de)compositions..." Lake terrace in Lummen, Belgium reimagined by Marco Vanoppen.

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3:18

Ambient sounds on a terrace by a lake

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/04/02

Recording of the ambient sounds on a terrace by a lake called "Schulensmeer". Noisy visitors, so almost none of the nature sounds are audible.Recorded by Lummen, Belgium by Marco Vanoppen.

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