Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • The first flying person in Asia
     "This piece is made in honour of Ke Shouliang, who leaped over the Yellow River by car. This feat was done as a celebration for the returning of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and was widely covered in the chinese media. The CRI recording, used was actually the last one available on this Cities and Memory project, and I was really amazed how no-one had taken such a gem. In fact I liked the phrase "The first flying person in Asia" so much, that I decided to use it as my new artistic pseudonym."

    Composition by Georgi Bozhinov. 

    Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave
    3 min
  • The Czech crisis
    "Friday 23 August,1968. Radio Moscow transmission to Australia
    31 metres 13-30 hrs GMT. Announcer, Boris Novikov (1925- 1997)

    Twenty nine years after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938,
    followed by WW2, the Warsaw Pact countries led by Russia invaded the country.
    This shortwave broadcast was recorded off-air in Australia by Ian Holder and gives the Russian view of the event. Less than two years after the fall of Communist Russia in 1991, the Republic of Czechoslovakia ceased to exit."

    Recorded by Ian Holder, courtesy of the Shortwave Radio Archive.

    Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave

    19 min
  • Hong Kong handover
    "Daily coverage of the Hong Kong Handover between Britain and China in 1997. The broadcasts are mainly from China Radio International (CRI) which was previously Radio Peking/Beijing. Other broadcasts are from the BBC World Service and Radio Singapore International. Intros and off-air recording by Ian Holder, Australia. Information on the Hong Kong Handover - http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0630.html"

    Recorded by Ian Holder, courtesy of the Shortwave Radio Archive.

    Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave

    9 min
  • China's first satellite
    "Radio Peking- Sunday April 26, 1970 09-30 GMT. 19 metres. Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia. China's first satellite information - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Fang_Hong_I" 

    Recorded by Ian Holder, courtesy of the Shortwave Radio Archive.

    Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave

    23 min
  • Elections in East Germany
    "Radio Berlin International (1400 GMT- 21465khz). Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia. Other broadcasts on this topic -https://archive.org/details/EastGermanElectionsNews19Mar90" 

    Recorded by Ian Holder, courtesy of the Shortwave Radio Archive.

    Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave

    10 min
  • The Polish crisis, 1981
    "14 Dec. 1981 Radio Moscow 12.00 GMT 17860khz. Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia. Other broadcasts on this topic - https://archive.org/details/PolishCrisis1981"

    Recorded by Ian Holder, courtesy of the Shortwave Radio Archive.

    Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave

    11 min
  • Electro rickshaw
    Bangladesh rickshaw ride reimagined by Cities and Memory.

    A chaotic field recording, with lots of small spikes of interest rapidly passing by, from car horns to truck engines, to passers-by calling out. Eight elements of interest were clipped and used as drum parts to construct a rhythm that reflected the chaotic nature of the original recording, with instrumentation added on top of the rickshaw rhythms to build the track.
    3 min
  • Interference pattern
    "The point where all compete at once for the heart, imagining the non linear universe and the myriads of patterns creating worlds for each individual. I worked on this piece as I was losing one of the most important people in the world."

    Composition by Michelle Breslin - Lostworldsounds.

    Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave

    3 min
  • Invalid-valid
    "I was inspired by the sonic textures from the original piece and decided to limit my creative process by using the PO-33 K.O. to create the main structure of the composition. After sampling and creating beats, I layered the voices and music pieces from the original recording to make if fun and dynamic. Invalid-valid plays with the idea that there will always be approval and/or disapproval towards public leaders and that these opinions may shift over time. The track starts playing vocal repeating the word "invalid" but towards the end those words transform into "valid"."

    Composition by Millie Wissar.

    Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave

    3 min

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Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world.