Cities and Memory - remixing the world
autor: Cities and Memory
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Organ in Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey
Organ in Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey
O tym podcaście
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 sounds. Each podcast description tells you more about what you're hearing, and where it came from.
There are more than 8,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 140 countries and territories. The sounds cover parts of the world as diverse as the hubbub of San Francisco’s main station, traditional fishing women’s songs at Lake Turkana, the sound of computer data centres in Birmingham, spiritual temple chanting in New Taipei City or the hum of the vaporetto engines in Venice. You can explore the project in full at www.citiesandmemory.com
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- Organ in Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey · 4 minSanta Maria de Montserrat Abbey sits atop Montserrat mountain in Catalonia, Spain. It's an 11th-century Benedictine monastery that still begs to be a pilgrimage. This recording…
- Montserrat · 6 min"The Benedictine Monastery Santa Maria de Montserrat is legendary and laden with history spanning over a thousand years. Upon hearing the church organ in the presence of moving…
- The number 13 tram to Ekebergparken · 10 minAboard the number 13 tram from Dronningensgate to Ekebergparken in Oslo, with track sounds, announcements in Norwegian, doors opening and closing, the sounds of passengers and…
- Siste stopp · 18 minSiste stopp (2026) is a reinterpretation of a field recording of the number 13 tram to Ekebergparken, in Oslo. The title means “last stop” in Norwegian. The piece starts from the…
- Aestuarium · 6 min"When I first heard Stuart’s recording of Whitby at low tide, the oystercatchers bickering over food and the gulls going wild across the harbour, I couldn’t help smiling. There’s…
- Oystercatchers fighting over breakfast · 2 minIn Whitby's harbour at low tide, oystercatchers peep at one another as they fight over food in the wet sand, while in the background hordes of gulls are getting very excited…
- Sheep's ear view · 7 minThis is an ambisonic recording made inside a sheep barn with the recorder set up on the ground near the gate. We hear close-up sounds of baaing, bells, snorts, peeing. Just…
- Line 3 to Gambetta · 15 minA metro journey from Reamur Sebastopol to Gambetta, with the sounds of closing and opening doors, announcement, passengers chatting and the rumble rails. Recorded in Paris…
- Aboard the tram to Dronningensgate · 6 minThe tram ride in Oslo from Nybrua to Dronningensgate, with beeps, doors opening and closing, track sounds and announcements. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
- Norwaywayway · 6 min"Melodies that play in your head on an autumn train journey through Oslo, with rhythms inspired by the click-clack of the tracks. Created with piano and percussion samples…
- Sheepscape · 7 min"Sheepscape started with Maria Margaronis’ ambisonic recording inside a sheep barn in Ano Pedina, Zagori, Epirus, Northern Greece. I dearly love this region of Greece and have…
- Metro 3 · 3 min"The source file of a metro journey in Paris has a real rhythm to it – announcements, signals, doors, movement… in a repetitive cycle. It also starts with someone singing. I took…
- Sacred dreams · 3 min"I was instantly struck by the lovely modal key that the cowbells were in (D Lydian). I wanted to play around with this scale and add to the mysterious nature of it. I imagined…
- Cowbells in the Dolomites · 5 minCowbells on a herd of mountain cows in the mountains in Trento, Italy, recorded first up close then walking away and becoming increasingly distant, summer 2026. Recorded by…
- Enormously long freight train · 8 minTrain station of Fullerton, CA. Enormously long freight train passing slowly with much metallic creaking. First half is motor vehicles; the second half is liquified petroleum…
- Freighted with meaning · 4 min"I have tried to combine the rhythms of this wonderful recording with a sense of lonely distance I've just finished reading Ed Conway's "Trade World" in which he reveals the…
- Could you run a national power grid? · 7 minA game simulating what it takes to run the power grid for an entire city, featuring various alarm sounds, machinery sounds, incoming phone calls, and voiceover commentary. Part…
- After all, that's my wonder harp · 5 minA busker plays a full-size harp in a square in Le Marais, Paris, including playing Wonderwall by Oasis in an attempt to charm passers-by. We can hear the sound of cafes, shoppers…
- From reverb to pounding water · 3 minThe heavily-reverbed impressive interior of Hannover's Neues Rathaus, through which we walk, then exit outside towards two powerful fountains in the courtyard outside. Recordedd…
- Harps of hope and seagulls of solace · 5 min"I really wanted to utilise various elements of this great field recording. There are people talking, of course the busker playing the harp, hammering noises, seagulls and so…
- The energy museum (I can't stand the quiet remix) · 10 min"I was immediately inspired by the reverbed wall of sound interspersed with tannoy vocalisations to create something that sounds a little more industrial than ambient. I wanted…
- Call the plumber · 2 min"The new piece is composed entirely of audio from the original sound file. "I've always been a fan of the sound of rushing water, be it a waterfall, a babbling brook, a shower…
- Sparks · 5 min"When I first heard the recording of the Tesla coils, I immediately knew it would be my choice for the Autumn project. The sound possessed a remarkable inherent rhythm, making it…
- The intensity of a Tesla coil · 1 minA Tesla coil in the Museum of Energy and Technology in Vilnius. As we turn up the power and frequency dials, the speed and intensity of the sound increases, until the power…
- Different rhythms · 4 min"The field recording features some nice percussive sounds of market dishes and tools. A specific percussive section caught my ears and I based the piece around it. I transformed…
- So Cortez · 7 min"With the exception of some vocalizations by my daughter and myself, all sounds and patterns were derived from the source material - tuned, chopped, inverted. "As the piece came…
- Blue silence between desert shores · 4 minShoreline ambience recorded at mid-morning from a quiet beach on the Sea of Cortez, Mexico: gentle waves washing over sand and pebbles, soft desert breeze, distant gull and…
- Street sounds In China Town, Bangkok · 8 minHear the lively streets of China Town, one of the busiest spots in Thailands capital City, during the rainy season. Recorded by Jake Edwards.
- Dartmoor streams · 10 min"The originating field recording is - frankly speaking - quite monotonous along its ten minutes... Thus my intention was/is to open up that monotony by overlaying various…
- Dartmoor streams · 10 minA peaceful recording of a natural pool fed by flowing streams, where you can wild swim and immerse yourself in the sounds of the surrounding landscape. Located near Okehampton…
- Memory, glowing · 8 min"There are memories in everything. "In nature, in our voices, in all of the world. "This field recording may sound like the memories of others, but at the same time it sounds…
- Bobrowisko nature enclave · 1 minSound from the walk through Nature enclave Bobrowisko in Stary Sącz, Poland. Recorded by Dominik Witaszczyk.
- Kneading the clay · 2 minIn Vilnius we were grateful that the Black Ceramics Centre welcomed us into their studio for a behind the scenes close recording session of their manufacturing processes. Here…
- If on a winter's night a traveller... · 7 minPlatforms 9 and 10 at Oslo central station, waiting for a train to depart, we hear arrivals and departures, loud train sounds, trolley bags, announcements and the general hum of…
- A cloudy day in the South Atlantic · 8 minThe sound of the ocean on the beaches of Cabo Frio, Brazil - a cloudy day with little wind. Recorded by Patricio Lerma.
- A busy day on track 9 · 6 min"The piece represents a busy few minutes on Track 9 of Oslo station. All the sounds are made up from sections of the original field recording - sampled, sequenced, pitched…
- Incantations · 8 min"I always thought that the waves have their own grooves. My piece follows, complements and builds upon the rhythm of the waves in the recording I have chosen. It aims to be…
- Lithuania clay blues · 3 min"The original recording is processed through a series of tuned resonators and combined with granular based background sound." Vilnius black ceramics kneading reimagined by…
- Walking to pasture · 11 minI walk behind the flock as the ewes leave the barn after the morning milking. A lamb gets separated from its mother; she hears its plaintive baaing and comes back to find it…
- Street food in Chinatown · 5 minListen to the clanging of a pans and cutlery as a Pad Thai is prepared in Chinatown, Bangkok. Recorded by Jake Edwards.
- Aboard the U-bahn to Kroepcke · 7 minAboard the U-bahn in Hannover, travelling to Kroepcke, leaving the station, close-up recording of the escalators, sounds of fellow passengers talking as they leave the station…
- Generative memories of a place · 7 min" I used Jake Edwards’ field recording from Chinatown, Bangkok, capturing the sounds of pots and cutlery during the preparation of Pad Thai. I transformed these everyday sounds…
- Autumn graze · 5 min"I decided to work with this sound because it reminds me as a kid my easter and summer holidays at my village. "A balance between the reality of the location and a musical…
- A place within another · 7 min"A recording of the U-Bahn in Hanover—a contemporary sonic trace of a place linked to Greek migration to Germany during the 1960s and 1970s. A recording from a *taverna*…
- The big final race · 14 minThe biggest race of the evening's race meet, as the Formula 1 cars battle it out in the final race - this is a recording of the entire race, including an interruption for a crash…
- Side by side · 7 min"Built around a 14-minute field recording of the final "Grand National" race at Northampton International Shaleway, the 6 minute track tries to balances the raw noise and chaos…
- Nanjing, Zhonghua Gate main passage · 4 minThis recording was captured inside the main passage of Nanjing’s Zhonghua Gate. Outside lies a busy intersection, where the sound of traffic, churned within the passage, forms a…
- Out.standing · 4 min"I listened to the file several times. The atmospheres are urban and dense. I tried to transform the sounds to create a sense of movement—a ghostly quality, as if the listener…
- Resistance love song · 7 min"With its concrete sonic materials and spacial panning, Resistance Lovesong explores the friction between animate spirit and mechanical oppression; industrial noise collides with…
- Birds chirping at sunrise, Pignotti · 2 minBirds chirping in the early morning while camping in Pignotti, Italy. Recorded by Francesco.
