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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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6:22

A sound that no longer exists

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

I was delighted to work with the recording of Aka masters Momboli and Gongé, playing flutes in the forest at night, recorded by Louis Sarno in the 1990s. I decided to retain the essence of the sounds of the forest camp at night, including the community of women, men, and children, as well as the wild shouts that are often parts of these moments. For many years, I have wished to visit the Congo, including the Dzanga-Sangha, and immerse myself among the Bayaka people. With this opportunity presented

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3:50

Flutes in the forest at night

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

Momboli and Gongé playing flutes in the forest at night.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of cassette tape and digital audio tape recordings of Bayaka music and soundscapes made by ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno mainly in the Central African Republic (and the Republic of Congo) between 1986 and 2009.Recorded by Louis Sarno.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining

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2:03

It looks like you're trying

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

The source material that I worked with was a field recording from the 60s in which someone in Morocco is singing a song, begging for bread. When I first listened to the recording, it immediately brought back a very specific memory from an old workplace of mine – an energy company had made a typographical error on their website, and when their customers struggling with energy debts called the phone number for the company's hardship scheme, it reached the completely unrelated company where I worked

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8:56

Rooted

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

The field recording from India immediately revealed itself to me as a form of male ritual music, rooted in repetition, gesture, and collective memory. From that first encounter, the piece began to take shape as an inner journey: a passage through listening, silence, and transformation.The opening unfolds in a dreamlike, immersive space, imagined as a temple. Here, sound becomes a threshold. Together with Spanish sound artist Sara Broto, I shaped — through my flute — a dialogue around one of her

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3:39

Voices through wires

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

The archival field recordings of Bayaka hunters captured by Louis Sarno were the starting point of this work, not only for their sonic richness, but for their ability to convey life and presence across time. The voices, full of rhythm, laughter, and communal energy, immediately suggested the potential to create a composition that honours their vitality while exploring cross-boundary cultures and beliefs. Rather than reconstructing the historical narrative or fixing the recordings in their original

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6:55

Durei-na-mbwe 2.0

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

“Durei-na-mbwe 2.0” plays with notions of time, decay and transformation; with it, I wanted to capture the embodied experience of me listening to and imagining the original recording through a contemporary lens. I listened to the original Durei-na-mbwe by the Broken Consort (1961) on repeat for about three weeks before I started to work with it; the haunting melody of the vocals and panpipes became an earworm and, as I heard these sounds circulating in my head, they started to morph into additional

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1:39

Ait Haddidu beggar singing for bread

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of Berber (Ait Haddidu) music and soundscapes made by members of the Oxford University Expedition to the Atlas Mountains of Southern Morocco in 1961.Recorded by Audrey Butt, Michael R. Emerson or Ralph Hudson Johnson.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the

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2:55

Durei-na-mbwe (song) by the Broken Consort

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

Durei-na-mbwe (song) by the Broken Consort, with Samuel on bu-wahr-wahr (panpipes), accompanied by Dominique, Erine, Ferdinand and Marineau.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of music and soundscapes made by ethnomusicologist Raymond Clausen mainly on the island of Malekula (Malampa Province) in Vanuatu between 1960 and 1979.Recorded by Raymond Ernst Clausen.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum,

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2:56

Out in the forest with Bayaka hunters

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of cassette tape and digital audio tape recordings of Bayaka music and soundscapes made by ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno mainly in the Central African Republic (and the Republic of Congo) between 1986 and 2009Recorded by Louis Sarno.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the

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6:54

Man singing with percussion

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel recordings of music and spoken language (principally Thulung Rai) made by anthropologist Nicholas Allen in Nepal and India between 1970 and 1981.Recorded by Nicholas Justin Allen.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of

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2:42

Man playing bināyā (jew's harp)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel recordings of music and spoken language (principally Thulung Rai) made by anthropologist Nicholas Allen in Nepal and India between 1970 and 1981.Recorded by Nicholas Justin Allen.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of

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3:17

Chocó flute and drum music with rattle

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of Chocó music and soundscapes made by students Jonathan Ambache and Richard Saumarez Smith in Colombia in 1965.Recorded by Jonathan Ambache and Richard Saumarez Smith.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University

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3:05

Edge of the mountain

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

For this project I challenged myself to create every sound directly from the original recording. Drum hits, textures, bass and even a cowboy guitar were all manipulated extracts from the sample. The recording contains vocal interjections which I reused as percussive elements.The jaw harp has a rich timbre and a compelling rhythmic drive, but it often required careful processing to soften harsh metallic tones.Man playing bināyā (jew's harp) reimagined by Gavin Inglis.———Part of the project A Century

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3:59

Two mornings (21,915 days and 8,480 km apart)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

A reflection on distance, time and listening.Morning sounds captured on reel-to-reel tape in Chocó, Colombia in 1965 meet digital recordings made sixty years later in Forest Gate, East London.Morning soundscape among the Chocó people reimagined by Asher Levitas.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Explore the full project at citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds

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7:00

Echoes from the roof

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

The production process centred on preserving the integrity of the original field recording from Lokhim, Nepal, while building a modern arrangement around it. Spectral Layers was utilised to isolate the vocal line from the background noise and original percussion, allowing the singer’s performance to remain the focal point without destructive editing. Once isolated, Melodyne and a custom built MIDI analysis tool were used to map the vocal’s intonation, identifying the scale to guide the new

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4:25

Dancing echoes

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

Inspiration came from both the sound recording itself, and my impressions of the Pitt Rivers Museum. I was struck by the many objects and collections of musical instruments in the museum – giving me the phrases "surrounded by..." and "all around us..." As a wind player I was interested in all the different objects that could be blown through including some very simple pipes with one or two holes. I chose a piece which included a wind instrument and so it became a natural thing to highlight that as

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58:47

Andean music including flute and drum

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a number of miscellaneous or individual ethnographic field recordings (rediscovered during a recent research project).Unknown recordist.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Explore the full project at

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8:34

When the mountains sing

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

The recording I chose is over 50 minutes of cassette tape recordings from the 1970s, capturing interviews and recordings of live music performed by communities living in the Andes in Peru. For the Indigenous communities of Peru, the Andes are living, sacred beings that sustain and protect life and they call the Mountain Spirits Apus. These powerful spirits of the Andes watch over communities and are revered as life-givers as well as ancestors. They are also seen as a spiritual bridge connecting

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5:09

Noriya/port-cruinn

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

Noriya is a men’s generational song celebrating and praising Ngitamo, the guinea fowl. The original recording of the Larim people in South Sudan in 1979 was from a time of relative peace, with the Ngitamo generation existing alongside the Nyoletiang (gazelles) and Nyitulabok (sheep). The melody, compound rhythm and tempo reflect this balance and resonate as song of celebration and joy, even one to dance to – a port-cruinn perhaps? Port-cruinn (pr. porsht-crooeen) is Scottish Gaelic for "jig" and is

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4:47

Men's generation song from South Sudan

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

"Noriya": a men's generation song from South Sudan ("Praise the guinea fowl Nyitamo/ He's always hard-working").From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of cassette tape recordings of music and spoken language (principally Laarim) made by anthropologist Patti Langton in South Sudan during 1979 and 1980.Recorded by Patti Langton.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100

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