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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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Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"I created several samples from the original field recording and used 2 that dictated the direction of the rest of the composition. Silk weaving is traditionally quite repetitive work so I wanted to convey this in my piece, aiming to subtly change the tone of the track throughout. I rushed to finish this track as I kept putting it off, like addressing my many unread emails and messages. "In typical fashion, the piece was started hours before the submission deadline. I need to address my time

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Okavango Delta jam

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"The Okavango Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to several indigenous communities, including the Batswana and San people, who have lived in the area for centuries. This piece is comprised of audio fragments of a Botswana chant field recording combined with percussion." Okavango Delta songs reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman.

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12 noon at the Lutheran church

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

Huge 12 noon Sunday bells peal out over a sustained period from the Marktkirche Lutheran church in Hannover, preceded by a walk along a street with several cafes lined with Hannover 96 fans about to head to the match. Recorded by Cities and Memory.

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Bells way out of confusion

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"I love bells, and this is a beautiful recording. I feel like Bells have a really unearthly sound. I just let the Bells lead me along as bells do. I also felt a context of bells warning, and the falling apart of things around us, but they also were leading a way out." Bells from Gloucester Cathedral reimagined by Lostworldsounds - Michelle Breslin.

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Gloucester Cathedral bells from inside the antiques...

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

It was a Saturday afternoon and I was browsing antiques at the Gloucester Antiques Centre when I heard the muffled sound of bells. I moved to the back of the shop to a barred door that led to the backyard and set my recorder. Through the cracks in the door came the sound of Gloucester Cathedral’s bells ringing a few hundred meters away. They had been peeling intermittently across the city all afternoon. I listened a few moments until they fell silent and the sounds in the shop reasserted

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4:50

Where the wild things whisper

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

A nighttime recording from the Ecuadorian Amazon reveals the hidden world that awakens after dark. Bats flutter overhead, insects create an otherworldly symphony, and distant howls echo through the trees. A gentle stream murmurs beneath it all, weaving a tapestry of life, survival, and mystery. Recorded by Rafael Diogo.

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8:59

Malapascua Island fishing village

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

As dawn stretches gently over the bay, the village stirs to life. The soft clatter of fishermen preparing their lines mingles with the playful clinks of children spinning an old bicycle wheel with a bamboo stick — a game as timeless as the tide. Nearby, the metallic hum of the village well echoes through the dusty sand alley, as barefoot kids dash beneath the waking sun. Roosters, curiously late, call out as if surprised by a world already in motion. This is the soundscape of a quiet coastal

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6:02

Takeshita Street, Tokyo

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

Takeshita Street, located in Harajuku, Tokyo, is a bustling pedestrian-only street known for its fashion boutiques, cafés, and restaurants. In the recording, made in late October 2024, you can hear the sounds of footsteps, lively conversations, and a mix of languages. This constant flow of people and linguistic diversity reveals the dynamic nature of the street, where the coexistence of so many languages in one place evokes the idea of a contemporary Tower of Babel — a place where different

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7:38

Lifeforms in the brush

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"When listening to the field recording I kept imagining movement all around me. Then I began going to a darker place where I felt large unseen creatures moving toward me and the feelings of slight panic one might experience in that situation, despite the beauty of natures surroundings. My attempt here was to capture the mood and ambience these thoughts brought forth." Night in the Ecuadorian Amazon reimagined by Gerald Fratzl.

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Takeshita Street (Andy Lyon reimagining)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"Takeshita Street is a busy pedestrian street, I've taken a perspective of being someone who is lost in the crowd / distracted by their phone to create an experimental / ambient / glitchy / tape loop track. "I've used the recording in a number of samplers to create ambience and create those snippets of conversation you tend to hear in passing. It was recorded as a one take live recording on iPhone." Takeshita Street, Tokyo reimagined by Andy Lyon.

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An imperfect cadence

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"I was inspired by the melancholy and foreboding tone of the bells in direct contrast to the modern chatter like the call of the ancient with the bells dominating the streets almost like they were haunted. "I used it by picking the tone of that bell and enhancing the eerie, haunting atmospherics, weaving the voices in with it." Midday bells in Hannover reimagined by Julie Woolmore.

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Malapascua Island (Head Like a Hole remix)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"Remix of Malapascua Island Fishing Village field recording merged into music with inspiration from Head Like A Hole by Nine Inch Nails. All samples apart from the main synth sound are from the original recording and used to create drum and percussion sounds as well as ambience." Malapascua Island reimagined by Gareth Eckley.

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It happened so fast

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"This is a strange pub scene, the kind where all of a sudden you’re inside your own head, as if flashing back years later. The premise came from the first intelligible bit of speech—“It happened so fast”—with flashes of conversation breaking in on that withdrawn mental space, with tones built up from the pub’s background music and the intonation of the language: “it happened so fast,” “the hardest thing,” “watch it,” and especially “all day,” a two-note phrase that became the central rhythm around

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Spending the night in a traditional Irish pub

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

Ambience from inside Kelly's Cellars, a traditional Irish pub in Belfast, including traditional music, pub chatter and the sounds of drinking and general merriment. Recorded in November 2023 by Cities and Memory. IMAGE: Albert Bridge / Kelly's Cellars, Belfast

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Birdsong from West Street

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

The dawn chorus of Balgowlah, Sydney, NSW in the midsummer, about 6:30am. I heard kookaburras, cockatoos, lorikeets, magpies, noisy miners and many more, with a few sparse domestic and vehicle sounds as the suburb begins to wake. Recorded by Emma Lambert.

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The Amazon's loud frogs

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

A pre-dawn soundscape dominated by the loud, relentless chorus of frogs, immersing you deeply in the heart of an indigenous community. The sounds get alive as soon as darkness falls, enveloping you in an unbroken, ever-present atmosphere. Deep within the Colombian Amazon, where it meets the Amazonian region of Peru, the vibrant frog calls resonate just before the first light of dawn. Recorded by Rafael Diogo.

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Extremely difficult

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

I've been recently working with an old non-linear editing system that has a few quirks. Sometimes, the system freezes making my stressful job even more difficult. I could either restart the system or calmly wait until it "unfreezes". The sound you hear - a voice saying "extremely difficult" - is the frozen edit system looping a part of the interview that I'm working on. I've learned that Instead of getting upset, I simply turn on my audio recorder, walk out of my edit suite, get a cup of coffee in

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A love song from Sudan

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

The Friday market in Ventimiglia, an Italian town on the border with France, is alive with the bustle of French tourists who come weekly to buy goods. The sounds of music, bargaining and laughter fill the air, but there's also an oblivious tension. The Italian police move through the crowd, routinely stopping people — particularly racialized individuals — to ask for documents. "Permesso di soggiorno, ce l'hai?" ("Do you have a residence permit?") echoes sharply as two Tunisian minors are

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5:07

El espejo de la naturaleza

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"Rafael Diogo's recording of the Colombian Amazon sounded so rich to me - and rich in a way that evoked certain things that could happen in my modular synthesizer, particularly the kinds of things that happen when I patch up feedback paths through Serge modules. "So that's what I did. The results interweave various ways of complementing and imitating the selected loops of the original field recording." Frogs in the Amazon reimagined by Joseph Chaves.

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Exactimo

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"I was struck by the many underlying tensions of this recording. The racialized profiling described by Masha Hassan—the dual nature of observation, the police surveillance of bodies and Masha's surveillance of them juxtaposed against the vibrancy and music of the open marketplace. "I wished to highlight those elements through a chopped and edited approach, a kind of digital tape manipulation, first through Eurorack synthesizer, and then further in DAW based editing; looping, sampling, resampling,

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