Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • 2815: L.E.S. 2086
    The year is 2086 in what is left of the Lower East Side in New York City.  A typical band of humans, humanoids, and robots are practicing a new take on an old genre from 100 years ago.  Reimagined by Baying Ridges. 
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min
  • 2814: Shift of researched contours
    Christchurch demolition reimagined by Steffi Neuhuber.
    "Shifting the noises of works in the streets of New Zealand into slow developing sound zones. 
    "Progress seems to be around every corner - sometimes it just seems like it, sometimes progress is very slow, sometimes unlike expected, sometimes not happening, sometimes in surprising ways - sometimes development gets stuck and we start from the beginning."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    5 min
  • 2813: Serbian protest (OST)
    Serbian protest reimagined by Lee Christian.
    "I was instantly drawn to this field recording because of its protesting chant, so that became the central idea of my piece (which meant using it as a 'chorus' of sorts despite it not being in the recording anywhere near as much). 
    "Also it had many noises with which I could create something: klaxons and passing car horns became horn stabs and blasts, passing rumbling vehicles became sub bass and whistles became... well, whistles but you get the idea. 
    "My intention was to take sounds from the protest and use them to make a soundtrack to the protest itself that blurred the lines between and added score and the music that might be playing at it (if a nightmarish cacophony of brass and trip-hop beats happened to be their jam!), while maybe increasing the drama and scale of it a bit even. Power to the people."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    5 min
  • 2812: Bell swing
    Recording of a church bell ringing from inside the bell tower.  The sound of the bell is per se nothing new, but if you listen from second 25, you will hear the actual bell swinging, and you will hear it at the end too. 
    Wish I could communicate the feeling of awe knowing there is a huge swinging bell on top of one's head (although I could not see it).  
    I was needing a place to stay in Berlin, and a couple of real good friends, David and Mary, offered me to stay in their flat, and since they work for the Berlin Stadtmission, their flat was in the bell tower of St Lukas Kirche, right next to the remains of the Old Central Station. Recorded by Clelia Ciardulli.
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    7 min
  • 2811: Riding the tram from Santo
    All aboard the fairly-new Padova tram system, which ferries people calmly and unfussily around this splendid northern Italian city. Recorded by Cities and Memory. 
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    10 min
  • 2810: Corridor
    Recorded in an underpass in Neerabup National Park. 
    Neerabup is an important stretch of bush for two main reasons - firstly, it acts as a wildlife corridor for native wildlife (particularly the many native birds) and secondly it incorporates and protects part of an ancient Aboriginal migration route, which is now a walking trail called the Yaberoo Budjara Heritage Trail. 
    In the recording, you can hear the sounds of traffic, interspersed with the sounds of birds. Recorded by Cissi Tsang. 
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    2 min
  • 2809: Breaking foundations
    In 2011 the city of Christchurch, New Zealand was devastated by a powerful earthquake that destroyed or damaged an estimated 80% of buildings in the central city. 
    This recording is of a demolition site, in which a demolition excavator is pulverising foundations of one of the damaged buildings. 
    Recorded by Jo Burzynska.
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    6 min
  • 2808: Serbian protest
    Opposition protests in the city centre of Belgrade, Serbia, recorded by Toni Dimitrov. 
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    3 min
  • 2807: As the crow rituals
    Kurama-dera temple reimagined by Graeme Rose. 
    "I never realised until the day after that I had started editing and rearranging parts from the original sound source on the Shinto day Setsebun-sai, which ties in with my playing with the audio of 'is the crow participating in this ritual, or leading it somehow?' leading to thinking about cities being interactions of human and non-human persons, with cities more as an ecology than a man-made environment. 
    "I wasn't sure how to emphasis that so parked the mix for a bit, and decided effecting and reversing certain parts to place underneath would highlight this human/non-human interaction. 
    "The underpinning idea behind the remix is to acknowledge Future Cities are more ecologies of all species rather than ignore it as in the past, like that spider in your bathroom feeding on other little things in your bathroom."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min
  • 2806: Inside Kurama-dera Temple, Kyoto
    Inside a Buddhist temple, with kneeling worshippers praying in unison. Because the temple is open to the outside, you can hear temple attendants outside picking up the autumn leaves and sweeping the courtyard. Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti.
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    2 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.