Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • Fragments
    Piazza della Cisterna, San Gimignano reimagined by Audio Obscura. 

    "I asked Cities and Memory to allocate me a random field recording which seemed a fun way to approach this. I listened through to the recording only once and then decided to cut up the recording into small fragments and begin to assemble a piece this way. 

    "It was made in a very haphazard way and after a short while I had a basic cut up section that I then recorded and improvised on top of, adding beats and synth sounds and effects. It felt like a jam and I didn't tidy it up too much, rather liking the fragmented nature of the piece."
    7 min
  • The bell of friendship
    La Campana dell'Amicizia e della Concordia (the bell of friendship and peace) is a monument on top of Monte Piano in the Dolomites. The bell monument was created as a warning to remind us to look for peace between peoples, and is located on a trench crag, between the first Italian-Austrian line. When you ring the bell, it resounds over an enormous distance across the mountains that surround you on all sides. 

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    1 min
  • The bell of friendship
    La Campana dell'Amicizia e della Concordia (the bell of friendship and peace) is a monument on top of Monte Piano in the Dolomites. The bell monument was created as a warning to remind us to look for peace between peoples, and is located on a trench crag, between the first Italian-Austrian line. When you ring the bell, it resounds over an enormous distance across the mountains that surround you on all sides. 

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    1 min
  • He ain't heavy (metal), he's my brother...
    The Bell of Friendship on Monte Piano reimagined by Michael Lilley.

    "I took the central bell clang and jammed (solo) with it in Endlesss until I had hammered the original sound, beyond recognition. 

    "The final arrangement was in Bitwig."
    5 min
  • He ain't heavy (metal), he's my brother...
    The Bell of Friendship on Monte Piano reimagined by Michael Lilley.

    "I took the central bell clang and jammed (solo) with it in Endlesss until I had hammered the original sound, beyond recognition. 

    "The final arrangement was in Bitwig."
    5 min
  • Gathering chimes
    Mass bells in Abbazia Pisani reimagined by Neil Spencer Bruce (Light B4 Sound).

    "The importance of bells in soundscape and culture is well documented as a way of controlling people and providing a sense of community. I wanted to explore both the tonality of the bell and the spaces in which the chime. On first hearing the field recording, images of Nick Roeg's Don't Look Now and the Giallo films of Dario Argento became the inspiration, films had a sense of dimension and space to them, and a sense of impending doom. 

    "Izotope's RX was used at the basis for the tone palette, creating samples using spectral frequency elements from the recorded bells. Spectral repair was used to highlight the 'noise' in the recording and then use this to form part of the underlying pad sounds. Additionally stripping elements from the original recording, also provided sources for a number of convolution reverb impulses which tracks elements were then processed with.

    "Binaural processing was used to further to add an immersive layer to the piece and to give it an additional authentic 80's feel, the mix was then processed on to an analogue cassette tape, for added hiss and nostalgia."
    5 min
  • Gathering chimes
    Mass bells in Abbazia Pisani reimagined by Neil Spencer Bruce (Light B4 Sound).

    "The importance of bells in soundscape and culture is well documented as a way of controlling people and providing a sense of community. I wanted to explore both the tonality of the bell and the spaces in which the chime. On first hearing the field recording, images of Nick Roeg's Don't Look Now and the Giallo films of Dario Argento became the inspiration, films had a sense of dimension and space to them, and a sense of impending doom. 

    "Izotope's RX was used at the basis for the tone palette, creating samples using spectral frequency elements from the recorded bells. Spectral repair was used to highlight the 'noise' in the recording and then use this to form part of the underlying pad sounds. Additionally stripping elements from the original recording, also provided sources for a number of convolution reverb impulses which tracks elements were then processed with.

    "Binaural processing was used to further to add an immersive layer to the piece and to give it an additional authentic 80's feel, the mix was then processed on to an analogue cassette tape, for added hiss and nostalgia."
    5 min
  • Truffle magic
    Mountain stream in Alba reimagined by Kenya DuBois.

    "Before the Covid-19 pandemic, I was planning a visit to several European countries. The meditative sound of the recording in tandem with my composition represents a portion of the sensory experience of sound and fragrance that I looked forward to experiencing, such as cafés, countrysides, and the white truffles of Alba."
    11 min
  • Truffle magic
    Mountain stream in Alba reimagined by Kenya DuBois.

    "Before the Covid-19 pandemic, I was planning a visit to several European countries. The meditative sound of the recording in tandem with my composition represents a portion of the sensory experience of sound and fragrance that I looked forward to experiencing, such as cafés, countrysides, and the white truffles of Alba."
    11 min
  • In the chamber
    Dolomite mountain stream reimagined by Nicolo Scolieri.

    "In looping sections, searching for rhythms in the noisy stream, and adding some tones and pitching them together, it seems like the interlocking waters made a chamber, reverberant and dark, but shining too, a cave."
    4 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.