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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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32:44

Regional music of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

"Regional Music of the Republic of China" (Taiwan): a recording of instrumental music and folk songs issued by the Broadcasting Corporation of Taiwan (literally: 'Broadcasting Corporation of China'), performed by its national orchestra and choir.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a small number of recordings issued or released by foreign broadcasting corporations or radio associations.Recorded by Broadcasting Corporation of Taiwan.Copyright Pitt

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Cezve

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

After several listenings to the beautiful 30-minute music program of Turkish folk songs (I encourage all of you to listen to the original audio in its entirety. It's a wonderful cultural window), I selected my favourite piece. From there, I chopped out the main musical theme and then I dissected that section into even smaller bits. I then played along with in on my piano and came up with the main musical parts which I decided to change from piano to synthesiser to help meld the sounds of the

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1:23

Bwaidogan kadede: a dance song

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

"Bwaidogan kadede": a dance song performed by Biliko, Kwaiago and Wakalubu, a trio from the Bwaidoka district of Goodenough Island.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of songs and spoken language (principally Bwaidoka) made by anthropologist Diamond Jenness and Methodist missionary Reverend Andrew Ballantyne on Goodenough Island (D'Entrecasteaux Islands) in Papua New Guinea in 1912.Recorded by Diamond Jenness

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4:47

A case of tongues

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

I love the rhythm of the exchange between the anthropologist and the Chidigo speaker in the first section of this recording, and at first I thought about building a percussion piece around it. But I chose this piece to work with because of my deep interest in languages, especially marginalised ones, so I decided to work with words in the tradition of the Pitt Rivers collection, which brings together objects related by theme or function rather than place or time. I chose some words in the recording

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136:23

Researcher discussing vocabulary and translations of...

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

"American researcher discussing vocabulary and translations of various English words": fieldwork recording of anthropologist Roger Gomm discussing with several men and women the language of the coastal Digo people of south-east Kenya, asking his interlocutors for the translation and precise meaning of many different words in the Digo (Chidigo) language.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a number of miscellaneous or individual ethnographic field

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3:57

What are they doing for us?

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

I joined the project late and so this was one of the only remaining sounds - The Bwiadogan Kadede from Goodenough Island chose me, recorded by anthropologist Diamond Jenness. I was delighted because this randomness fits with my experimental approach to creating music. But I became increasingly concerned with the disconnect between this project and the people who live in the place the sound was collected from. Could I, a complete outsider, a person with no knowledge of Goodenough Island, its people,

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5:36

Anew

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

I chose this field recording because I liked that it’s a documentation of someone imitating the music of nature. In that original recording itself there’s so many layers of the art. There’s the birdsong that the person presumably heard many times, then spent time learning how to make the whistling sound, then they made their song, which was recorded onto magnetic tape, and converted into a digital format, which finally reached me. It made me think about at what point something becomes art. In my

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4:45

U'wa group chant

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

U'wa group chant from the Andes in north-east Colombia.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel recordings of U'wa songs and stories made by anthropologist Ann Osborn in the Northern Andes (Sierra Nevada del Cocuy region) in Colombia between 1969 and 1977.Recorded by Ann Osborn.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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Downstream

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

When approaching a project like this I try to come up with a concept quickly - the immediacy of ideas is what makes most sense to me. To me, the sample reminded me of people rapping, and the flow of the original sample seemed to ask for some accompanying electronic instrumentation to give them centre stage. I tried three different approaches and stitched them together - the first part lends itself more to ambient listening, turning the vocals more into an instrument - and the second and third parts

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7:46

Aural sunbeam (six records of gongs and singing)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

I decided to reimagine the recording of “Six Records of Gongs and Singing”: six phonograph records of drums and singing. Originally recorded in 1914 on Atchin Island in Vanuatu, these recordings were made using wax cylinders by anthropologist John Willoughby Layard. Later, in the late 1930s, they were transferred to 78rpm records, and in 1979, they were transferred to reel-to-reel tape.In my recording of “Aural Sunbeam (Six Records of Gongs and Singing),” I am reinterpreting these historical sounds

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2:18

Gooma (tree drum) played with sticks

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 2009.Recorded 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

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U'wa whistling

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

U'wa whistling from the Andes in north-east Colombia.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel recordings of U'wa songs and stories made by anthropologist Ann Osborn in the Northern Andes (Sierra Nevada del Cocuy region) in Colombia between 1969 and 1977.Recorded by Ann Osborn.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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10:19

Haldora Davidsen in conversation

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 individual recordings.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 citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds

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31:07

Six records of gongs and singing

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

"Six Records of Gongs and Singing": six phonograph records of drums and singing from Vanuatu, originally recorded on wax cylinders by anthropologist John Layard, later transferred (here) to tape.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).Recorded by John Willoughby Layard.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the

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Excerpts from expedition tapes

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

Excerpts from expedition tapes: recording of songs and the playing of musical instruments in the northern part of the Oriente of Ecuador made by members of the Oxford University Expedition to Ecuador in 1960.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).Recorded by Michael R. Emerson and Ralph Hudson Johnson.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum,

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Barrel organs

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

Barrel organs: recording of three English barrel organs in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections, comprising songs played by Freddy Hill (restorer).From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a small number of recordings of the musical instruments in the institution's collections being played or discussed.Unknown recordist. Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100

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3:27

Looking for spirits

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

The recording I started with came with a description, which included the following phrase: "youths [...] drum on trees as they pass through the forest, sometimes spirits may drum the tree during boyobé ceremonies."I was keen to both explore the rhythms and that sense of being joined by spirits - the ambiguity about who plays; as much in the lack of information about the actual individuals as in a spiritual way.A photograph of these "youths" by one of the trees became a guiding image as I stretched

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4:59

Eulogy for Freddy Hill

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

As a starting point for this project, I did some research into the person who played the barrel organs on the recording.It transpired that Freddy Hill (born 1932 in Sussex, UK) was a very gifted man. The son of a headmaster and a clockmaker by profession, he also taught carpentry and music and was an expert restorer of antique musical instruments including the chamber barrel organs in this recording. Freddy was a founder member of the Musical Box Society of Great Britain which was established in

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30:14

Trumpets and horns

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

"Trumpets and horns": narration by musicologist Jeremy Montague about the contents of the trumpets display in the Pitt Rivers Museum, with examples of instruments being played.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a small number of recordings of the musical instruments in the institution's collections being played or discussedUnknown recordist.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining

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4:44

Little train

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2026/02/22

From the moment that I first heard this sound, I thought the flute sounded very much like a little steam train. At first, I researched about Columbian trains and found there is a tourist train to the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá, an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine, 200 metres (660 ft) underground in a halite mountain near the city of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.I wanted the listener to hear the original recording in the track but did edit the order,

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