Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 3191: Cartmel Priory bells
    Field recording from Cumbria, UK by Karst.
    "The field recording of the bell ringing at Cartmel Priory was made on the morning of 27th May 2018 before Sunday worship."
    5 min
  • 3190: Mid-morning coffee with Grandma and conversations about marriage
    São Domingos de Rana, Portugal lockdown sound recorded by Leonor Carmo.
    "3rd of May, 2020. It's Mother's Day in Portugal. Three generations of women — grandmother (87), mother (60) and daughter (20) — share a mid-morning snack of espresso coffee (in beautiful Chinese porcelain cups) and Portuguese custard tarts in the backyard. The day feels strangely like summer: the birds are singing, the pool's vacuum is running, it's scorching hot at 11 o'clock in the morning and the shade is the only place where it's truly pleasant at the moment. My mum sets the parasol in place so my grandma won’t get sunburnt, as this is the first time she has left the house since quarantine began. The topic around the table is marriage and its passing. My grandmother lost her husband fifteen years ago and my parents got divorced in 2019, on New Year’s Eve."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    3 min
  • 3183: Sirens in Copenhagen
    Copenhagen lockdown sound recorded by Tim Hinman.
    "This recording is of the yearly test of the citywide emergency siren system reserved for major emergencies, times of war etc. This year it comes in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, which - though easing greatly at this point - renders it oddly significant this year."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    10 min
  • 3188: The changing social life of Copenhagen
    Copenhagen, Denmark lockdown sound recorded by Thomas Lewin.
    "On a typical weekday night this corner in the Nørrebro neighborhood of Copenhagen is bustling with folks socializing outside bars, friendly football leagues filling the pitches across the street, cyclists, and pedestrians. Now the restaurants, shops, and bars are empty, only a few families kick around a football, and traffic levels have decreased significantly."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    20 min
  • 3189: Applause for the doctors
    Murcia, Spain lockdown sound recorded by Natalia Valverde. 
    "Listening to this soundscape, I am very emotional when I remember the whole situation we are living through because of the Covid-19, at the same time that it comforts me to know that, we are carrying out a show of support to all those who are fighting against this epidemic."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    3 min
  • 3187: Call to prayer, Minneapolis
    Minneapolis, USA lockdown sound recorded by Katharine Horowitz.
    "In order to maintain stay-at-home orders, Minneapolis issued a permit for a mosque in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood to broadcast the "adhan" during Ramadan so that Muslims can still pray, but do so safely apart. This recording was made at 5pm on May 7, 2020. The prayer can be heard starting at 2:52."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    7 min
  • 3186: A single sedge warbler, a small migrant bird, with its rasping along with occasional bee, woodpecker
    Pershore, England lockdown sound recorded by Jayne Lewis.
    "Behind where I live are the community meadows. Everyday people are walking across the meadows and parallel ‘people tracks’ are being marked through knee high buttercups. Today I saw three cygnets hatch beneath a swan who has been sitting each day for six weeks. People have shown such engaged protective interest in the two breeding pairs of swans this year who have sat on their eggs during this whole lockdown. 
    "Yesterday I saw 6 cygnets in another swan family emerge onto a lake for their first swim. Usually at this time you hear above everything the calls of the cuckoo both male and female. They cut across everything. 
    "Today, with so little traffic or sounds from workplaces, I was able to watch and listen to this solitary sedge warbler. It was particularly special as this is the bird that the cuckoo parasites to raise its own chicks. 
    "Last night I sang and played the clarinet, my husband played his alto saxophone and the neighbour opposite played her clarinet for the song We’ll Meet Again after the Clap for Carers on the pavement. The neighbour’s husband was in Trafalgar Square in the midst of the VE Day celebrations. He is a frail older gentleman and was determined to cross the road to tell us his story whilst we carefully retreated as he came closer and closer to tell us, he doesn’t understand the invisible enemy that is amongst us at present."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    3 min
  • 3185: Essenzialità armonica
    Ascoli Piceno, Italy lockdown sound recorded by Miriam Alameddine.
    "The rhythm of sounds from my balcony in Italy is changing...in something powerful.
    "Is this our opportunity to discover what is really essential?"
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    5 min
  • 3184: Zero milestone
    Washington DC lockdown sound recorded by William McKenna. 
    "I started working from home on March 19th when it became more than obvious that we all had to isolate ourselves. 3 weeks later, I had to get out of my apartment. I went for a relatively long walk with no real plan other than to take my cameras to capture some images (photos and video) of what has become a Ghost Town. I almost immediately headed towards the White House. It was a beautiful Spring day but the streets were mostly empty.
    "I had remarked to a colleague earlier in the month that my walk to work was a mixture of anxiety and, surprisingly, some joy. There were very few cars on the road so I was able to hear things that I rarely could hear on my daily walk, like birdsong.
    "I walked past the north side of the White House which was full of extra security. Getting a picture of the front of the building was going to be difficult especially considering that there was construction going on because Trump has decided to make the tall, black fence a few feet taller.
    Go figure.
    "I then walked around the back of the White House until I got to a spot where I had an unobstructed view. I placed my small, consumer video camera on a small stone marker. I had never really looked at it before. It's called The Zero Milestone which measures the distance of all roads in the U.S. or something like that.
    "It seemed appropriate to name this audio file "Zero Milestone" because, in a sense, the White House - and especially the current angry occupant - has an incredible influence not only on the lives of the cantankerous constituents of this troubled Democracy but also the lives of so many people all around the world.
    "Stay safe, WM"
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    5 min
  • 3182: Stormy day, Murcia
    Murcia, Spain lockdown sound recorded by Natalia Valverde.
    "When I listen to the sound of the rain, it gives me a feeling of relaxation, and I find that pleasant. Also when I play this landscape I remember that smell that the rain leaves when it falls on the earth, called petrichor."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    3 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.