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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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5:27

Diana memorial fountain

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

An extract from a soundwalk around this water feature in Hyde Park, London. It’s an oval granite channel measuring between 6 and 10 meters wide, and about 50 by 80 metres in diameter. Water flows across a varied surface cut into the granite, creating calm ripple sounds, fast torrents, turbulent bubbling… Recorded by Paul Wheeler.

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4:16

Changti Street night market, Wuhan

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

Wuhan’s night markets are famously vibrant, but Changti Street’s night market recording was chosen for its contrast with the afternoon one, highlighting shifts in life’s rhythm and atmosphere. In this recording: nearby voices shift from passersby to seated diners, more stable; the next layer of pedestrians chat while walking, dynamic. In the mid-to-distant background, restaurant workers and vendors shout, grills sizzle, loud exhaust fans rumble, and diners in narrow alleys clamor. The interplay of

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3:00

Under the night market

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"This field recording put me in mind of the anxiety and sensory overload one can experience in crowded public spaces like the night market the original captures. The horns of cars, beeping of cars and cacophony of noises from busy stalls are transformed into abstracted noises, barely legible as their original forms, and the voices of workers and customers come in and out of focus, creating their own music detached from the meaning of the actual words being spoken. "My reworking is an attempt to

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4:55

Lost in frequency

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

'Since moving to London, I have been continuously tuning myself to the frequency of this city. "Melodies generated by four automatic systems based on different musical scales, field recordings, and my own voice sometimes connect, intersect, conflict, and harmonise. "Lost in different frequencies, I am still searching for a way through." Diana memorial fountain, London reimagined by Miya.

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2:01

Never is ever over

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"Field recording of Pipilotti Rist's "Ever Is Over" performance piece deconstructed via various granular processes." Video installation from Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman.

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4:32

Subliminish

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/18

"This piece was made from a selection of time-stretched samples of gaps between the rushing water in the original field recording, layered and manipulated to create an ambient soundscape. I have had the pleasure of swimming in the Fairy Pools in the past, and was inspired by the uncanny and liminal nature of sounds and ambience when heard underwater. "I particularly focused on the pseudo-vocal elements of these stretched samples, leaning into the simulation of ethereal laughter." Skye Fairy Pools

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5:12

Sacred meetings

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

" Boscastle, such a beautiful magical place, set in a deep valley carved out by the river, with jagged cliffs covered in emerald & drifts of Sea Pinks & white Campion, where the sea birds nest. The buildings growing out of the cliffs in slate & killas. The slate slabs & cobbles trodden into forms of memories for hundreds of years. "I was inspired by the Boscastle field recording because of my deep connection with the sea & the place itself. I lived nearby for many years. I was

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3:35

Waves on the jetty

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

Light waves breaking on a stone boat jetty in the very small one-boat Boscastle harbour in Cornwall on a sunny August afternoon. Recorded by Cities and Memory, June 2025.

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8:00

Cascade of autumn

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"This composition is built from a field recording of a waterfall in the Lake District by Rob Parton. The waterfall has a broad spectrum of frequencies decaying and emerging; a metaphor for autumn: as each droplet’s resonance fades, new ones emerge, echoing nature’s descent into winter, its long sleep and quiet preparation for spring. "The piece features a vocal sample of Karen McCarthy Woolf reading from her poem Conversations with Water, her contemplative words reverberating through this

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2:30

Where?

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"The original source sound for this piece was from a bat echolocation detection device. So in this sonic interpretation, I aimed to create the feeling of reaching out into a mysterious, dark space of unknown size or location. "The timbre is meant to be muffled and imprecise while the musical material is deliberate and approaching Baroque. I also bounced the original source sound between various audio and music composition softwares, relaying the message and having it change along the way–similar

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4:06

Donkey stone

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"I was drawn to the call of the Rag and Bone man, and I thought of the man himself, beyond the call - and imagined my own best beloved Great Grandmother and the stories she told me of getting a Donkey Stone from the Rag and Bone man, and scrubbing her step clean. "It must have been important to her, because she told me about it as though it were a ritual. So I wrote her song, as she might sing to him. Maybe she called him Donkey Stone. "Maybe she dreamed of running away and living a life on the

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15:45

Tug of war at the palio games

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

Annual "palio" games are common across Italy, in which the town divides itself up into different quarters, which then compete in a series of games over several nights - here, we listen to the first event, the tug of war, with several rounds between different teams all named after animals. We can also hear the nightly "campana della sera" evening bells at 9.00pm midway through the recording. Recorded in Villa del Conte, Italy, June 2025 by Cities and Memory.

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5:44

Radiative feedback

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"|Using SpectralLayers, I isolated the background noise and PA voice into distinct layers that were shortened and pitch-shifted with various effects to create a bed for the track. Then samples of the voice and background were chopped up and woven into a chilled-out ambient composition." Villa del Conte palio games reimagined by Karhide.

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2:07

Rag and bone man in an English village

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

Every now and then a Rag ‘n' Bone man (scrap metal man) drives his van round my village in the Forest of Dean picking up scrap metal. It has been difficult to record him. By the time I’ve got the recorder out he’s gone. This time I was lucky. The recording captures him passing down my lane, then the strident chatter of sparrows and the gentle hum of bees in the garden before we hear him again calling in the distance. Recorded by Paul Stephens-Wood.

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6:49

The beep of the bat detector

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

The sounds of a bat detector converting bat echolocation calls into audible frequencies on a bat behaviour/nesting site survey in Oxfordshire. Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti.

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3:25

Yuncao Old Street, Wuhu

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

Finding a spot in Wuhu’s city center that fit this recording project’s theme was nearly impossible, but a sentimental taxi driver pointed me to Yuncao, a small town on the Yangtze’s north bank. Water transport (caoyun) is the origin of Wuhu’s name, hinting at stories embedded in the town’s identity. Recently turned into a tourist spot, it was still free of visitors, with shops and residents all locals, unhurried and unprepared for tourists—perfect for my experience and recording. I arrived during

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2:28

Mountain waters in the Lake District

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

Mountain Waters captures the sound of water flowing along the Stickle Tarn trail in the Lake District, near Stickle Tarn at the heart of the Langdale Pikes. The water moves over rocks and drops, creating a rhythmic, textured sound that reflects the natural processes shaping this landscape. The Lake District, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is defined by its lakes and mountains, and this recording highlights the water that connects them. It provides a sense of place, transporting the listener to a key

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19:59

Protest outside SOAS, London

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

Protest outside SOAS in support of Haya Adam - 26th September 2025. A Palestine-related protest outside SOAS, UoL, Bloomsbury, London. Haya Adam is a student who has led Palestine protests and was expelled from SOAS this summer. The first half of the recording has protest chants, the second half is a speech from Haya Adam. Recorded by James Errington.

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2:48

Camps Bay street dancers

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

A recording capturing the energised nature of Cape Town, complicated by the historic struggles that have defined the country. This was an autumn day, blue skies and bright sunshine. This was during my first trip to South Africa, where I had started visiting to uncover information about my South African family and dad, who died when I was very young. Recorded by Daniel Mackenzie.

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1:00

A summer morning in the rice fields

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

Recorded on a summer morning in the middle of a beautiful rice field stretching as far as the eye can see. It felt like a magnificent sound installation, with crows and insects singing. Recorded in Niigata, Japan by Miyu Hosoi.

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