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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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2:07

Trajinera at Xochimilco canals

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

Traditional trajinera boat through Xochimilco canals. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. Recorded in Xochimilo, Mexico by Erick Ruiz Arellano.

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1:28

Ancient Waroani dance

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

This recording captures a profound moment in my field recording journey: witnessing and documenting an ancient Waorani tribal dance beneath a luminous full moon. The Waorani people, indigenous to the Amazon rainforest, have a rich cultural heritage, with traditions that include communal dances performed around fires, accompanied by singing and the application of red achiote face paint. Experiencing their vibrant expressions of community and spirituality was an unforgettable highlight. Recorded in

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5:23

Abandoned olive press

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

This recording captures the haunting ambiance of a long-forgotten olive press nestled in one of Portugal's remote and ghostly regions. The structure, with its collapsing roof and decaying machinery, stands as a testament to a bygone era. Venturing inside, I sought to capture the rich textures and unique sounds that permeate the space. Some of these sounds possess remarkable spectral qualities, embodying the essence of abandonment. Recorded in Benfeita, Portugal by Rafael Diogo.

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8:04

Feeding the Greenlandic sled dogs

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

This recording was made in June 2024 in Sisimiut’s “dogtown,” a designated area on the outskirts of town where most sled dogs are kept. It captures the chaotic energy of 18 dogs at feeding time—their excited barks and yelps, the thud of a plastic food bucket, and the musher’s occasional voice as he moves steadily through his long routine. These are working dogs, not pets. When not in use, they’re chained, and during the summer months, they don’t work at all. As a result, they become especially

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6:29

Crows and the city in snow

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

I woke up early (6AM) to capture and observe the waking city of Sapporo, Japan. I was particularly surprised by the presence of crows, which often sat on the street signs and traffic light poles. Sparse trucks and cars passed along the snowy roads. The calls of the cows echoed off the buildings, yet the city remained quite calm. This recording took place in 2018. Crows in Sapporo recorded by Antek Rutczyński.

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4:27

Fajr in Tunis

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

A recording of the first call to prayer of the day, from the rooftop of my friend's house. I love the way the vocalisations from different mosques interact with one another, and how noises of the city take over as the calls fade away. Recorded in Tunis by Ben Gale.

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7:52

Ahuexote

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

"Ahuexote is an acousmatic work that explores the sounds of the waterways of Xochimilco (Mexico), the oar of the trajinera, the breathing of the tree, and the heartbeat of the ecosystem. In the still mirror of its waters, an ancestral pulse beats in Xochimilco: its canals are the arteries of this land, where axolotls murmur and the liquid, silent memory of flowers is preserved. "The soundscape is disassembled into distinct acoustic components, each projecting its own timbral and temporal

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1:34

Waorani ancestral

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

"Decided to give the inspiring piece some ambience without being too invasive." Waorani dance from Ecuador reimagined by Elaine Silva.

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6:34

Acoustic residue

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

"Processed using the MakeNoise Tape and Microsound Machine. The work abstracts the sounds of the olive press while retaining its original acoustic character and suggestion of utility — transforming obsolete machinery into a resonant source of sonic potential, an acoustic residue." Abandoned olive press in Benfeita, Portugal reimagined by Alan Cook.

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4:28

Dogtown

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

"A team of 18 sled dogs at the Sisimiut observatory station in Greenland howls in a rising and falling chorus at feeding time. While a human can typically hear high-frequency sounds up to 20,000 Hz, dogs can hear up to 60,000 Hz or above and are highly attuned to pitch differences as small as 1/8 tone. Here the dogs' cries are slowed down and lowered in pitch, revealing melodies that appear to be ultrasonic frequencies not normally audible to the human ear. "A woman's voice is encoded on a 2.5"

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7:12

Sapporo

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

"I liked the sound of the crows, you hear them everywhere. I manipulated the original sound and improvised over it and then reworked the whole. By accident the sound became like a pulse which created a tension. I just followed that impulse." Crows in Sapporo, Japan reimagined by Patrick Bridge.

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5:00

Fajr

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

"The original sound file is the core of the piece, having taken shorter bits of the audio and collaged them with audio from synthesizers to form the whole. Hardware used was Apple Mac MINI, Roland Seaboard M; Software used was Logic, Audacity, and Equator II. "The piece evolved from the environmental non-human sounds in the original recording." Fajr call to prayer in Tunis reimagined by Dennis Moser.

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3:34

Italian ski lift

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/20

"I really liked the 'ka-chunk' sounds the ski lift makes as it goes over the uneven parts in the wires, kind of like the sounds trains make going over certain parts of the rails. I pulled one of these sounds out and built it into a longer, compound sound, then used it as one of the beats throughout the piece. "I also used a lower-volume version of the entire long sample from Seceda Mountain, capturing occasional ski lift noises, but more, the air in the mountains — you can barely hear the air, but

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2:54

Sorry I was gone there for a moment

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/20

"The field recording I worked with was of an everyday moment; the beeps and clicks of a traffic light, and as soon as I heard it I was singing along, exploring the sounds - it took me away to a place of implied melodies, textures and rhythms - much like incidental sounds sometimes do that in 'real life', whether it's birdsong, a snatch of a melody or the hum of jet engines. It's all inspiration and invitation." Tallinn pedestrian crossing reimagined by de Velden.

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2:14

Tick, tick, ticktickticktick

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/20

The distinctive ticking of a pedestrian crossing on a busy road in Tallinn, which gets quicker to let you know it's time to cross, and slower when it's time to wait. Recorded in September 2024 by Cities and Memory.

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5:47

Ascending on a ski lift

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/20

This recording was taken while ascending on a chair ski lift. The mountain is sparse, empty and still with no wind. The only sound is the machinery and distant voices of a few skiers. This was my first trip abroad in 2022 since the COVID-19 pandemic had struck the world. Recorded in Ortisei, Italy by Antek Rutczynski.

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8:35

High energy in Mexico: Connecting la Presidenta, the...

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/20

I developed my composition from the gentle hubbub of people inside the echoey library of one of the world’s great universities: the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)— the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In July 2007, UNESCO proclaimed the UNAM Central Library, along with the UNAM Campus as World Heritage sites. The recording was created by Mexican sound recordist par excellence Erick Ruiz Arrellano. This simple spatial human reverberance at UNAM generated multiple sound

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2:58

Library at UNAM, Mexico City

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/20

Library at UNAM. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. Recorded in Mexico City by Erick Ruiz Arellano.

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11:22

Harbour life in Oban

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/20

A classic soundscape of Oban harbour, starting with serving up langoustines, crabs and mussels in the seafood shack, a walk along the harbour wall and then a huge ferry slowly arrives. Towards the end of the recording, the throbbing drone of the engines blends with the creak of massive mooring ropes straining against the ferry's capstans. Recorded in April 2025 in Oban, Scotland by Cities and Memory.

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3:28

Folk songs by the lighthouse

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/20

A couple with acoustic guitars entertain themselves - and all the passers-by - singing and playing folk songs underneath the lighthouse in Bremerhaven. Recorded in Bremerhaven, Germany in May 2025 by Cities and Memory.

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