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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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0:43

Obispo market

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

Market soundscape from Obispo in Old Havana. UNESCO listing: Old Havana and its Fortification System Recorded by Jack Hyde. IMAGE: Paul Mannix, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights. Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

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4:15

China syndrome

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

"I based my composition upon the 5 note motif from the original field recording incorporated at the beginning of the piece and repeated throughout using predominantly Asian instruments." Musical instrument on the Great Wall of China reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman. ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights. Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage IMAGE: Prince Roy, CC BY 2.0

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11:46

Dark bamboo

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

"I enjoy feeling disorientated sometimes; being exposed to sound worlds which don’t reveal their inner logic. The bamboo recording felt like one of those moments. "I wanted to take the rhythms of the creaking bamboo & weave something around it, thinking about nature, preservation and the encroachment of technology, as well as Brazil’s immense percussive heritage & influence. "The piece of music which has emerged is darker than I anticipated, perhaps reflecting the times we’re living

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3:12

A modern reverence

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

"By integrating electronic elements with the historic sound of the cathedral organ, the piece highlights the tension and synergy between the old and the new, a dichotomy central to Vienna's identity. "The composition also speaks to the theme of sound preservation by emphasising how culturally significant sounds - such as the timeless resonance of the organ - serve not only as historical artefacts but as living, evolving expressions of cultural identity." St. Stephen's, Vienna reimagined by

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1:50

St. Stephen's Cathedral organist

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

As I entered Vienna's iconic St. Stephen's Cathedral in the heart of the historic centre, a service was just finishing and the organist was playing a triumphant piece of music. I particularly enjoyed the long sustain held on the last chord. UNESCO listing: Historic City of Vienna Recorded by Colin Hunter. ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights. Find out more and explore the whole project:

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5:46

Brief synthesis, integrity, authenticity

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

"In this piece, the monk's chanting runs throughout, initially heavily processed by various layers of granular synthesis, and very gradually revealing itself as the composition progresses, so that by the end all we hear is the naked simplicity of the original recording. "The composition represents how we often experience the beauty of World Heritage sites, at first overcome by a feeling of their "importance" at having this status bequeathed upon them, and that perhaps we ought to feel a certain

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0:42

Monk chanting, Luang Prabang

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

Monk chanting at Luang Prabang. Stereo 44kHz 16bit. UNESCO listing: Town of Luang Prabang Recorded by Erick Ruiz Arellano. ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights. Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

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5:58

Early morning at San Agustin Church

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

An early morning at the San Agustin Church is far from quiet. Street sweepers tidying old cobblestone paths, the chapel staff routine inspections and preparations, vendors beckoning passerbys their taho or knick knacks, and local guides gleefully offering their services to wandering tourists. The bells of the Manila Cathedral toll and people crossing the plaza are natural accompaniments like thunder to rain. Such sounds reminisce since the early days of the oldest stone church in the Philippines

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4:21

Boiling point -196C

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

"This composition is intended to hiss out of speakers in a similar manner to the liquid nitrogen hissing from the storage tanks outside the Department of Earth Sciences. It's a sonic reflection on standing in this small street, being surrounded on every side by the sounds of humming machinery, coolant and air conditioning, the administrative machinery that underpins and helps to make possible Oxford University's scientific research. This machinery is the unsung hero of our piece. "A tribute to the

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4:36

The sounds of science

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

Outside the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, there are several gigantic, almost-building height tanks of liquid nitrogen behind a fence, encrusted with ice and with vapour hissing out from the pipes at the bottom. The sounds of hissing liquid nitrogen vapours mix with the industrial drones of other nearby scientific machinery and air conditioning devices coming from science labs, a sonic reminder of all the fantastic research taking place behind closed doors in these

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10:09

Organ drift

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

"There has been a fascinating wave of experimental and drone music in recent years placing the organ as the centrepiece of a meditative experience, expanding out and stretching the sound into a deep listening experience. "This piece is in that tradition, taking four sampled layers of the organ and building a slowly-changing, contemplative ten minutes in which perhaps religious contemplation driven by the pure organ sound is augmented, or replaced, by a more spatial, bodily contemplation as that

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5:37

Somnium retinarii

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

The field recording takes us from tour group to tour group inside the world-famous Colosseum, with each guide bringing their own style and their own facts and anecdotal stories about the incredible history of this space. This composition imagines standing at the back of one of these tour groups, half-listening to what the guide is saying, but then allowing the eyes to drift upwards, allowing the attention to drift outwards, and a pure sensation of the beauty, importance and history of this space to

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3:03

Órgão de Igreja (Church organ)

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/24

Recording inside the Sé Velha church, Alta de Coimbra, when someone played the service organ. UNESCO listing: University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia. Recorded by Luis Antero. ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights. Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

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3:24

Warp and weft #4

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/23

"My background is in the visual arts, with a primary focus on sculpture, particularly wood carving. Over time, I have become increasingly fascinated by the concept of ‘residue’—the traces left behind after the physical sculpture is completed."Sound has emerged as a compelling avenue of inquiry, with the rhythmic tapping and scraping of steel chisels against wood punctuating my process. The act of making, for me, extends beyond the tangible object; it encompasses the sonic imprint of labor itself

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10:04

Dreams of the bell tower watchman

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/23

"I very carefully listened to scores of recordings before settling on this one and it captured my imagination instantly. It’s incredibly rich and mysterious. What was documented in this field recording transports us, I think, to a place both ancient and instantly present. We hear footfalls climbing rickety stairs. In the distance bells toll. And in the foreground a sonorous voice intones a repeated phrase, mysteriously. It was my clear favourite and I hope we’ve done it justice. "The recording

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0:50

La Clerecía

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/23

The descent from Salamanca’s Clerecía Towers unfolds like an auditory time capsule, where each step resonates with the weight of history. The recording begins at the heights of this iconic cathedral, capturing the faint echoes of voices carried by the lofty ceilings before transitioning into the measured rhythm of footsteps descending the spiral staircase. As the journey unfolds, subtle hints of the past emerge in the form of audio guides weaving through the air - snippets of historical narratives

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1:57

Asante Kente weaving at Bonwire, Ghana with palpable...

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/23

Mechanisms of wooden frames and wools in a seemingly textural sonic dialog during a Kente weaving session at Asante Bonwire. Among the Asante (or Ashanti) people of Ghana, West Africa, a popular legend relates how two young men—Ota Karaban and his friend Kwaku Ameyaw—learned the art of weaving by observing a spider weaving its web. One night, the two went out into the forest to check their traps, and they were amazed by a beautiful spider’s web whose many unique designs sparkled in the moonlight

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4:00

Morning incantation

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/23

I was interested in this field recording, taken from Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Japan featuring monks chanting their morning prayer. I’ve aimed to create a musical space that allows their prayers to serve as a background and a constant, with distinct sections complementing and reflecting the ongoing prayer and the approaching dawn. Monks chanting in Nara reimagined by Jaspal Singh Bhogal. ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous

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3:22

Hypogeum

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/23

"The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni in Paola, Malta is a Neolithic subterranean structure dating from before 3000 BC. A necropolis and a place of sanctuary, it comprises several chambers carved out of the rock with primitive tools. The sophistication of its creators is evident from the intricate patterns painted in ochre on the ceilings and the entry of light from the surface, which is thought to have illuminated the façade of one of the main chambers at the winter solstice. "For the musician, of

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1:51

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum tour

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/03/23

On a tour in the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, walking around. You can here other tourists on the tour and recorded guides. August 2008. UNESCO listing: Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum Recorded by David Webb. ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights. Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

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