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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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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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11:20

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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7:26

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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2:46

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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2:39

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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6:45

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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4:08

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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7:18

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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2:10

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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4:06

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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3:25

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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2:54

ExtremelyDifficult03

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"The original source recording is from an old sound editing machine that sometimes freezes up on the operator and starts looping at that spot. "I had plenty of ideas, but after a lot of tinkering I found myself paring it all back until finally I was left with two copies of the exact same snippet endlessly looping, snaking in and out of sync. I was mesmerized by this simple variation of the original spontaneous glitch. "I tried various effects on either track like panning, filters and EQ, reverb

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4:08

Balgowlah slowdown

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/23

"I slowed down Emma Lambert's field recording progressively and in layers so the soundspace is a gradual stretching of her field recording. At three quarters of the way to 4min and 8 seconds, the length of the original recording, it is hard to hear the birdsong that is now at about 1 percent. By the end it is at 0.1 percent. The sounds are still there. "There's a saying that if things change gradually you don't notice. This was the inspiration behind the slow down of Emma Lambert's

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9:21

Music baths in Tokyo

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

"The original sound is a recording of Sengoku-yu Public Baths in Tokyo: the owner is a musician. On this particular Monday, three musicians are working to clean the baths; I imagined, in sound, these three spirits bringing music to the place as they clean, like a true Miyazaki story." Baths in Tokyo reimagined by Clelia Ciardulli.

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4:25

Fishermen near The Bouche du Roy, Benin

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

Songs of fishermen retrieving fish trapped in large nets by force of arms. Recorded by Pierre Costard.

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3:43

Shut the hell up! (feat. Shoez Plimsoul)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

"I wanted to do something a bit synthwave / cyberpunk / Blade Runner influenced. The original clip gave me the feeling of night and neon lights. I had the idea to add a punk bassline - which was the first thing I recorded. I then added the drums, guitar and then synths. "Finally the vocals came, which are satirical. We love to talk about ourselves, but never speak up when it really matters. And, we are slaves to consumerism no matter what we try to think. "I kept the whole piece short despite the

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4:36

Afternoon in Sigri

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

My two italian friends had rented a house in Sigri in the island of Lesvos. The house was just by the sea so one could hear constantly the waves inside. My friend is dancing with seaweeds that she had picked at the beach in the living room and she is playing music from a tape. Me and my other friend are reading aloud text that is written for her puppet show in Finnish and Italian. One can also hear pigeons that live on the island. Recorded by Sirpa Jokinen.

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19:12

The sound of 500 wind bells

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

First is the sound of 500 wind chimes suspended on wires. Then you can hear the morning service begin at the temple. The sound of sutra reading, the bells, and drums. Recorded by Tadamitsu Mizuno.

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9:36

Public bath cleaning, Tokyo

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/06/21

This sound was recorded in 2025 at Sengoku-yu, where there is a public bath. The owner of this place is a musician. On Monday mornings, three musicians help to clean up the baths, because it's closed on Tuesdays. This was recorded in front of the boiler, and behind the high pressure washer. The sound come from these machines. This place is not open for everyone. The view is like Hayao Miyazaki's movie ”Spirited Away" - KAMAJI's place is very similar. At the beginning of the recording, the boiler

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