Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

By Cities and MemorySociety & CultureArtsMusicPlaces & Travel
Download on the App Store

Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • 3323: Hong Kong Airport 2020
    Hong Kong airport reimagined by Keisuke Oki.
    "The airport terminal train at Hong Kong Airport has been carrying travelers from all over the world. The train now may carry the uncertain future of Hong Kong."
    4 min
  • 3326: Cantus Quercu
    New Orleans singing tree reimagined by Richard Watts.
    "The basis of the piece is what an Oak tree would sound like if it was really singing. I've used lots of samples from the original recording and treated them in various different ways. 
    "There is a pulse in the piece which is supposed to sound like the water flowing from the roots up into the branches. 
    "There are other sounds representing the wind in the leaves and the branches moving. Lastly I added samples of the wind chimes from the original recording."
    5 min
  • 3325: The fiction we have become
    Venice Beach skaters reimagined by Jeff Dungfelder.
    "For my piece “The fiction we have become” I have deconstructed a field recording of a skateboarder in Venice CA, and fragmented the sounds into futuristic textures. My inspiration came from the quote: “The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.” — William Gibson, Pattern Recognition."
    5 min
  • 3322: Skateboarding on Venice Beach
    Los Angeles recording by Rob Godman.
    "A recording of a skate park on Venice. Notable sounds include the ubiquitous ‘alpha’ male who was critiquing the abilities of the skaters without being a particularly good skater himself…"
    6 min
  • 3321: Silence in the Pantheon, please!
    Sound from the Pantheon, Rome, recorded by Rob Godman.
    "The beautiful ambience within Rome’s Pantheon was punctuated by a loud repetitive public announcement telling us to be silent in multiple languages."
    2 min
  • 3319: The singing oak
    New Orleans singing oak recorded by Silas van der Swaagh.
    "The Singing Oak, or Chime Tree, provides shade and coordinated melodies from the beautiful wind chimes hung in the giant oak by local artist Jim Hart. The instruments range in size, with one of them reaching a length of 14 feet. The chimes are all tuned to ring out in the pentatonic scale. 
    "The Chime Tree is located in City Park, in New Orleans, LA."
    3 min
  • 3317: A storm in a lockdown
    Oxford lockdown sound recorded by Cities and Memory.
    "Well into the third month of lockdown here in the UK, and today's thunderstorms confining us all to quarters is a reminder that so far during lockdown we have - as a very small comfort - had excellent weather that's meant we can go outside, rediscover nature and stay sane. But with discussion about a possible second wave of Covid-19, and potentially over winter when venturing outdoors is much less feasible, it's also a warning of how future lockdowns may be even grimmer than this one."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    7 min
  • 3315: The city sings with electricity
    Outside the Bodleian Library, Oxford during lockdown reimagined by Cities and Memory. 
    "The silence in the city centre, outside the world-famous Bodleian Library, was one of those strangely pervasive, slightly sinister city silences. The way a city sounds at 4am, except this was 8pm. 
    "The drone of the city's air conditioning, power sources, light switches and street lamps becomes the dominant ambience, and becomes overpowering on its own, as represented by the synths in this piece, and the cracking buzzes at the start and finish symbolise the electricity coursing through the city.
    "Every passing conversation becomes amplified, everything a passer-by says carries new import, as you can hear from the snippets of speech in the piece, and even the distant bells you'd have struggled to hear beneath the hum of traffic now stand out clearly.
    "During lockdown, the city sings with electricity, and this piece brings out that song and places it front and centre."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    6 min
  • 3314: Bagley Wood lockdown (Andy Lyon reimagining)
    Bagley Wood, Oxford during lockdown reimagined by Andy Lyon.
    "The idea with this piece was to keep the essence of the field recording, layering orchestration, drones and subtle glitchy effects to contrast with the tranquility of the field recording, adding a subtle tension."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    10 min
  • 3313: Still Nowruz
    Iranian lockdown sound reimagined by Alex Hehir.
    "The original recording immediately got my attention as the noise of two musicians playing outside, with very little else, just sounded awesome.
    "The stereo profile is also very interesting which meant I could really dig into the recording and pull out individual Dohul and Sorna sounds.
    "The field recording is very much at the heart of the piece and I've also layered many acoustic and electronic textures throughout. This was recorded at the beginning of lockdown and also coincided with the Iranian new year hence the name of the track."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    5 min

About Cities and Memory - remixing the world

From the publisher's feed

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