Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • 3042: Rain outside the window
    Orange County, USA lockdown sound recorded by Stephen Michaels.
    "It's been raining a lot here in the morning. It often stops before I'm awake, but in the mornings I can still hear the sound of rain that's collected on my roof dripping into a large puddle outside my window. 
    "I usually wake up to noise created by my roommates, but with quarantine, everyone's either still sleeping in or back home with their families."
    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
    2 min
  • 3043: A sunny day in Velehrad
    Czech Republic lockdown sound recorded by Marie Stepanikova.
    "I was taking my 10 month old nephew to a walk, trying to make him fall asleep. I am spending Easter with my sister, she has four kids and all of them have to stay in house, because school is closed. 
    "It is a difficult time for them, so I try to help her a little bit and take care of the kids and help them with school. I guess that the kids are really happy that they don't have to go to school!"
    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
  • 3051: Railway cable
    Ventimiglia, Italy lockdown sound recorded by Antonino Russo.
    "I share this particular sound of the railway cables recorded near my house. It was a windy evening. I am a field recordist so I immediately took advantage to record this incredible sound."
    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
    2 min
  • 3050: Warning from the early birds
    Shanghai lockdown sound recorded by Christine Yuan.
    "I isolated myself from the whole world for almost one month, in those days, I wanna isolate from all the bad news online but I cannot, so I try to document the soundscapes around me, observed the small space, observed my heart, especially hearing the birds, feeding them, also hearing myself in my music composition. 
    "Maybe the nature just wants a dialogue with humanity, friendly for several years, but humans cannot hear, and the noise of entertainment drowning all the truth.
    "The birds are the Messengers. On Pure Brightness Festival, I recorded the public alarm to memorialize all the victims in this Cov-19 pandemic, but in this recording, you can hear the birds just like the souls singing in the wind."
    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
    2 min
  • 3049: Sound Walk through Riverside Grove, Boulder Creek, CA
    Boulder Creek, USA lockdown sound recorded by Ray Rischpater.
    "It's a rural community; life goes on pretty much as normal -- people walk their dogs, drive through the neighborhood, feed the mourning doves, and cut their firewood."
    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
    6 min
  • 3048: Birds and claps, Nantes
    Nantes lockdown sound recorded by Kevin Lemoine.
    "I live with 6 roommates in Nantes, this sound was recorded around 8pm, at sunset. The grand silence of the first two days was replaced by more and more bird songs, reminding me of the countryside I grew up in. 
    "We live next to a supermarket and witnessed the first panic-shopping waves, then people avoiding themselves, and now wearing gloves and masks. 
    "Right now in France, we enter in the fourth week of quarantine but the epidemic isn't very present in the  western half of the country."
    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
  • 3047: Blackbird in Kilo
    Finnish lockdown sound recorded by Ilkka Paloniemi.
    "In beautiful spring evening the eurasian blackbird was singing near by. Sounds are healing in these lock down days."
    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
    2 min
  • 3046: Morning in Highfields, Orleans
    Orleans, France lockdown sound recorded by Shoï Extrasystole.
    "Early morning, backyard of my tiny home, I put out some grains for birds: they come and some grains fall down onto a metal plate; you can also hear the neighbour opening windows, a dog, pigeon, guinea fowl, bee... "
    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
    6 min
  • 3045: Sintra, o fim de um dia de primavera
    Sintra lockdown sound recorded by Inês Abrantes Santos.
    "These week I was at my home in Sintra and I think the world is change very fast with this situation. 
    "I hear more birds the sky was more blue the stars are shinning a lot and this is so magic. Life is magic."
    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
    1 min
  • 3044: Listening to the birdsong at the University
    Lisbon lockdown sound recorded by Ana Luisa Fernando.
    "This is the birdsong that we can listen at our University very early in the morning... or now, during the coronavirus pandemic. 
    "And why am I here and not at home? Because I have some essays going on that need my weekly assistance...even a cuckoo can be listen...enjoy and please stay home."
    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
    1 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.