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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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14:04

Sanqiba alley ambience

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"The sounds of Sanqiba Alley in Nanjing reminded me of living in Nanjing several years ago, and the sense of the history of this place and its people was really strong. The piece draws on the sounds of conversations and food preparations to suggest a moment that is rooted in time and is also timeless in a way." Nanjing old town reimagined by Wayne DeFehr.

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1:27

Catheed

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

" used the prominent sound of the bells to explore polyrhythms and basic sound effects such as pitch and timing alteration, and reversing. I structured it so that the rhythm is established, then altered, then becomes chaotic, then gives way to more melodic and coherent material. The harshness of sound and the wedding bells are a micro structure, briefly explored." Oslo wedding bells reimagined by Patrick Duffy.

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8:47

Some people believe birds are alien drones

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"I like to push myself beyond my comfort zones so as an exercise in avoiding my biases I asked Stuart to choose a sound for me. It's almost as if he knew! Stuart gave me a sound recording of seagulls that really challenged me. It was a difficult sound to work with because it has a very narrow tonal range and was quite repetitive. I found that surprising for a natural sound. "All of the sounds in this composition have been derived from the original field recording." Gulls in Lofoten reimagined by

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6:47

In the belly of the beast

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"I was inspired by the guttural sounds of the animals roaring. I decided to investigate the detail of these by slowing the material down. I then layered different components and added plugins including comb filtering, space grain and evolution. The resultant audio suggested to me how it might sound if you were a small creature swallowed by a predator." Jiwei village, China reimagined by Alison Beattie.

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5:48

In the park

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"While listening to this composition I am imagining walking mindfully through a park and feeling centred and contemplative. I used the whole field recording, applied different effects and made the accompanying synth lines while imagining I was in the park." Buergerpark, Bremen reimagined by Eden Grey.

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3:48

Attention please, listen to autumn

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"Starting with a recording from Baltimore airport, I created a contrast between nature and the urban environment. My goal is to highlight how we have become accustomed to the artificial noises of the city, ending up almost completely ignoring the sounds of nature. This composition is intended as an invitation to listen to them carefully again." Baltimore station reimagined by Samuele Arcudi.

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3:29

Cacophony

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"In protests many voices join together, sounding to create a powerful opposition, echoing through physical and mental spaces. This piece recalls mass protests, recorded by Daniel Beaudoin, in response to the 2023 Tempi train crash in Greece caused by gross negligence and followed by corrupt coverups. "Granular textures crafted from this recording and other protests I've recorded embrace and support these voices of unrest, acting as an amplification of the opposition to injustice experienced in

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3:14

Suzhou's cat

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/12

"I liked that the original file showcased people enjoying their leisure time playing games and talking freely while the world went on by. I found it relaxing and peaceful. It made me think of how time passes us by, and how generations come and go - the cycle of life. So I wanted something repetitive and cyclical, yet relaxing. This inspired the waving synth drone. "I used outboard gear for all of these sounds - which was a first for me. I always like to learn something new when I create something

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3:56

Black milk

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

"This composition is based on an ambisonic recording made inside the Sauna at Auschwitz. This was the ‘bathhouse’ where new arrivals from the trains arriving at the camp were stripped of all their belongings, valuables and clothes, registered and tattooed with a number, then showered, shaved, disinfected and re-clothed. The building had a “clean” and a “dirty” side, and machines were used to steam and delouse clothing. Existing prisoners were also sometimes sent to the Sauna in attempts to control

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8:40

Sauna, Auschwitz

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

Ambisonics recordings of the acoustics inside the "Sauna" in Auschwitz, where the prisoners were disinfected, shaved, stripped of their clothes and their valuables and tattooed with a number. Same acoustics today as in 1942.Recorded by Anders Vinjar.

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4:30

Among the Oldenburg ultras

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

At VFB Oldenburg vs. Luebeck, 9 May 2025 (final score: 0-2). An impressively large section of ultras for a small club in Germany's fourth division, marshalled by a leader with a megaphone. This is a passage of Oldenburg fans songs underpinned by drumming to keep everyone energised and in time. Recorded by Cities and Memory.

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8:10

The Oldenburg ultras choir

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

"I asked for a random field recording to let chance guide my ear. What arrived resonated: unmistakably urban, shaped by the pulse of a collective ritual. In the voices of the Vfb Oldenburg Ultras chants I heard an expression of joy and working-class culture, a liturgy sung by a secular choir. Lower division football provides an inclusive space where local cultural identity and community can be celebrated. The glamour needs to be homegrown on a wet midweek evening, when your team is losing (again)

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4:24

Duality

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

"Duality draws from the resonant tolling of church bells. The work explores how a single sound can hold opposing states—deep yet relaxing, weighty yet weightless. The bells become a meditation on perception itself: their meaning shaped not by acoustic properties alone, but by the listener's inner state. In their reverberations lies a paradox resolved only in stillness." Bremerhaven bell sounds reimagined by Bruce Nemeth.

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1:44

1 o'clock at Buergermeister-Smidt-Gedaechtniskirche

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

Church bells ring for 1pm at the Buergermeister-Smidt-Gedaechtniskirche, Bremerhaven, Germany, as police sirens sound in the background. Recorded in May 2025 by Cities and Memory.

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14:31

Hakkeijima Island underwater

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

Underwater sounds, the sound of waves on the sea, the vibration of wires to prevent falls, these are recorded. The sound of a titmouse playing on the wire is also included in the recording. Recorded 28.01.2025, 4:43pm by Miduno.

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2:35

The Norwegian wild bee

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

Soundscape of buzzing bees in a field in Leknes, Norway. Recorded by Agapi Zita.

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10:12

Deforestation - killing in the name of

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

Cousins Ave forest has been enjoyed by walkers, joggers and cyclists for decades. I regularly take my dog into the forest for a long run. Several weeks ago I arrived and found barriers erected as harvesting was commencing. I found a spot to sit and listen to the sounds of destruction in what was once a place of serenity. This recording captures the sounds of machinery reducing a once serene forest to slash - a term used to describe the material left behind after trees are harvested. Not only has

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6:47

Après moi, le déluge

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

"This piece was inspired by the global issue of flooding. It includes extracts from the work of the 19th C English poet, John Clare (reading by Ian King for Librivox - PD). In the final clip of the poem, the words are eventually overwhelmed by The Flood. "There is also acknowledgement of the origin of the field recording, with the inclusion of samples of Japanese traditional instruments." Hakkeijima Island underwater sounds reimagined by Nick St. George.

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4:02

B-geophone-lounge

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

"The melodic and maybe even slightly forlorn sound of the bees made me want to include them as a layer in a moody instrumental piece so they became a low key pseudo horn part in a band which also features tuned stereo geophone recordings of me playing a hotel room balcony and claves recorded in the same hotel room. " I was staying in a small quiet village where the usual background car hum of the city I live in was absent and the bees reminded me of the more prominent sounds of nature

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10:08

Foxton bleach

Cities and Memory - remixing the world ·

2025/12/11

Bleach: to lose colour. The recording of the Foxton Beach deforestation is transposed in a process of timbre decolorization. Using the original recording as a musical score, my compositional process puts emphasis on the degradation of the natural ecosystem by degrading sound and timbre elements. The result is a broken and ruined imaginary landscape where only a few synthetic sound survives. Foxton Beach forest soundscape reimagined by Nicola Cappelletti.

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