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- At the heart of Cinque TorriThe sound of birds nesting, the occasional bird of prey overheard, a passing aeroplane and hikers at Cinque Torri, a stunning location in the Italian Dolomites. Recorded by Cities and Memory.2 min
- A mountain stream runs through AlbaIn Alba in Trentino, Italy, a mountain stream runs through the centre of this town in the heart of the Dolomites, where the sound has that typical purity one only gets up in the mountains. Recorded by Cities and Memory.5 min
- A mountain stream runs through AlbaIn Alba in Trentino, Italy, a mountain stream runs through the centre of this town in the heart of the Dolomites, where the sound has that typical purity one only gets up in the mountains. Recorded by Cities and Memory.5 min
- Walking on a volcanic beachWalking on a stone/sand mixed beach, on which the sand is coloured black due to volcanic activity, on the island of Stromboli, which boasts an active volcano as its centrepiece. Recorded by Cities and Memory.6 min
- Walking on a volcanic beachWalking on a stone/sand mixed beach, on which the sand is coloured black due to volcanic activity, on the island of Stromboli, which boasts an active volcano as its centrepiece. Recorded by Cities and Memory.6 min
- Merging cricket songsCrickets in Scopello, Sicily reimagined by Michael Reiley."The piece started with the high pitch din of the night-time crickets. After all my work with Echozoo reimaging the sounds of extinct animals I got very inspired by imagining and interpreting what is it that animals hear. How is their interior soundscape different that what humans hear? With this piece I was exploring the resonance of what does a field of crickets sound like to the crickets themselves. Is it soothing, peaceful, or agitating? The result of this piece is a meditation on that point of merging of our human-centric sound of the field of crickets and the crickets' perspective on their own song."5 min
- Merging cricket songsCrickets in Scopello, Sicily reimagined by Michael Reiley."The piece started with the high pitch din of the night-time crickets. After all my work with Echozoo reimaging the sounds of extinct animals I got very inspired by imagining and interpreting what is it that animals hear. How is their interior soundscape different that what humans hear? With this piece I was exploring the resonance of what does a field of crickets sound like to the crickets themselves. Is it soothing, peaceful, or agitating? The result of this piece is a meditation on that point of merging of our human-centric sound of the field of crickets and the crickets' perspective on their own song."5 min
- Birds and bellsLerici birdsong reimagined by Cameron Lovegrove."All sounds used are manipulations of birdsong, which I used to create sustained drones that formed the basis of the sounds heard. The aim was to create a blend of the real forest sound, and a fictional sound world."4 min
- Birds and bellsLerici birdsong reimagined by Cameron Lovegrove."All sounds used are manipulations of birdsong, which I used to create sustained drones that formed the basis of the sounds heard. The aim was to create a blend of the real forest sound, and a fictional sound world."4 min
- Campane ItalianeBells in San Gimignano reimagined by Jase Warner."'Campane Italiane' features a field recording of bells ringing out in San Gimignano, a hill town in Italy’s Tuscany region."The composition is made up of multiple layers of the original recording, each accompanied with its own particular drone texture. Synthesiser tracks have also been added to compliment the patterns and movement of the bells."3 min
About Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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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.
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