Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 3473: Gratitude
    Lockdown sound from Madrid, Spain, October 2020 by Ana Torralba.

    "Be grateful, lift others - after 6 months of  lockdown, my 3 kids are back to school with their backpacks full of gratitude and responsibility. They are aware of how "lucky" they are to do so: despite Covid-19 they are healthy, have a comfortable home and a family that love and support  them. Of course there were "highs and lows" during this isolation time, but betting on gratitude each night recalling those things that bring us joy has been a game changer for our family. Lesson learnt:  embrace uncertainty, show up everyday, ask for help and use your privilege as a tool in helping others."

    Part of the StayHomeSounds project to map and reimagine the sounds of the Covid-19 lockdowns.
    1 min
  • 3469: The sound of Venetian gondolas
    One of the classic sounds of Venice, a row of moored gondolas sloshing back and forth, sometimes clattering into one another, on the lagoon close to the tourist epicentre of the city, Piazza San Marco. 

    Passing boat traffic intensifies the breaking water, which splashes up onto the pavement, endangering our brave little recording device. 

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    4 min
  • 3471: Listening to Santa Lucia
    Waiting for our train out of Venice, we explore the interior of Santa Lucia station, listening to the throb and drone of train engines, station announcements and the comings and goings of passengers. Despite being in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic, the station sounds and looks quite normal, with only face masks and the occasional public health announcement over the PA system giving us a clue of the time we're currently living through.

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    7 min
  • 3470: Children playing in Campo San Polo
    Campo San Polo is a large piazza in the centre of Venice - when we visited on a Monday afternoon, it was filled with children playing right across the square. All kinds of different games, different age groups, and parents watching on. Here we can hear a game of football being played and several other games as we take a walk around the campo, with the sounds reverberating off the buildings to create a joyous reverb of shared fun. 

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    5 min
  • 3468: Bells at midday in Venice
    In Piazza San Marco, we await the bells at midday, which are heralded by a series of musical chimes coming from the Torre dell'Orologio. The biggest bell actually doesn't ring at midday, the chimes instead coming from smaller bells inside the huge campanile, so midday sounds a little different from every other time of day in the city.

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    12 min
  • 3467: Station announcers of the world unite
    Venezia Santa Lucia station reimagined by Simon Woods.

    "All the sounds of this piece, making up a busy day on the station, are made from the Venetian station announcer’s voices.

    "In addition we have messages from their ‘Station Announcing Cousins from Liverpool Lime Street’."

    7 min
  • 3466: Campo San Polo (Andy Lyon reimagining)
    Children playing in Campo San Polo, Venice, reimagined by Andy Lyon.

    "The recording is like a memory of pre-covid times and the piece reflects on all of the feelings we've experienced from 2020 - memories of the past, fear, anxiety, anticipation, hope, loss, despair and ultimately a cautious optimism for a better future."
    9 min
  • 3464: And somebody spoke, and I went into a Venetian dream...
    Midday bells in Piazza San Marco, Venice reimagined by John Tenney.

    "A day in the life of a dreamer, who is suddenly transported from the streets of San Francisco to the Piazza San Marco in Venice, where he walks, delights in the ambience, hallucinates, is blasted back to San Francisco against his will. Sure, who would WANT to leave Venice, even in a dream world?"
    5 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.