Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • Campane Italiane
    Bells 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
  • Golden Tuscan sunshine
    From the top of a high viewpoint in the incredibly picturesque Tuscan town of San Gimignano, Italy, late afternoon bells ring out in the golden sunshine. 

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    1 min
  • Golden Tuscan sunshine
    From the top of a high viewpoint in the incredibly picturesque Tuscan town of San Gimignano, Italy, late afternoon bells ring out in the golden sunshine. 

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    1 min
  • Early morning in an Italian village
    Bells ring out for morning mass in Abbazia Pisani, Italy - in the background you can hear the morning radio show burbling away to itself, while periodically two dogs bark at everyone who passes their house across the street. A typical soundscape of morning life.

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    5 min
  • Early morning in an Italian village
    Bells ring out for morning mass in Abbazia Pisani, Italy - in the background you can hear the morning radio show burbling away to itself, while periodically two dogs bark at everyone who passes their house across the street. A typical soundscape of morning life.

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    5 min
  • Abbazia Pisani (Xqui remix)
    Bells in Abbazia Pisani reimagined by Xqui.

    "The church bells act as a percussive sound in tandem with the occasional dog bark - music in itself.  The added 'reverse' echo and ambient streams developed the piece."
    5 min
  • Abbazia Pisani (Xqui remix)
    Bells in Abbazia Pisani reimagined by Xqui.

    "The church bells act as a percussive sound in tandem with the occasional dog bark - music in itself.  The added 'reverse' echo and ambient streams developed the piece."
    5 min
  • Piazza del Campo, Siena
    Siena's Piazza del Campo is known all over the world for its stunning beauty and unusual shell-like shape, and its size and shape also gives it fascinating sonic characteristics. Here we stand in the centre of the piazza to take a binaural recording of a typical August afternoon in the centre of Siena.

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    6 min
  • Piazza del Campo, Siena
    Siena's Piazza del Campo is known all over the world for its stunning beauty and unusual shell-like shape, and its size and shape also gives it fascinating sonic characteristics. Here we stand in the centre of the piazza to take a binaural recording of a typical August afternoon in the centre of Siena.

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    6 min
  • Siena jazz cani
    Piazza del Campo, Siena reimagined by Andy Billington.

    "I worked into the original recording of Siena Piazza del Campo a number of forgotten "sonic sketch book ideas" found on an old computer hard drive. Abandoned song ideas, Zoom recorder piano motifs from lockdown 2020 and some fragmented reverse piano tape experiments were re appropriated. These slowly formed the basis for the track. 

    "Some form of rotary synth effect from Apple Logic Pro 8 (2008) added to the movement of the track as did a fragment stock loop sample of a jazz trio. Adding reverse reverb to one section of the jazz drums gave the final rhythmic chaos finish. 

    "Finally the all important dog yelp samples were repositioned (a part of the original recording that really stood out). In a town famous for horse racing it is somewhat ironic that the dogs finally get a look in..."
    9 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.