Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • 2805: Call your mother!
    Minneapolis city sounds reimagined by Tom Miller. 
    "The continuous ringing of telephone bells against a background of traffic noise urges us to fulfil our filial obligations as we are reminded of the unbreakable maternal bond; yet they remain unanswered. 
    "Eventually another voice rises in counterpoint, asserting the right to ignore the call, but the summoning remains insistent as the bells morph into an urban technofuture in which motherly love is expressed through means of electrocommunication."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    5 min
  • 2804: Half-heard conversations in Minneapolis
    A snapshot of the intersection at 35th St and Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN, on a Sunday afternoon after a church service - listen out for fascinating snippets of half-heard conversations. Recorded by Katharine Horowitz.
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    6 min
  • 2803: 講文明 樹新風
    Suzhou bus ride reimagined by Marg Laing. 
    I heard the music of persistence midst decay, driving forward. The bus rattling, heaving and sighing like waves, while a voice cries out, its slogan repeats and even with translation is perplexing. Yet it is strikingly evocative "stress a civilisation, plant a new culture".
    Everything you hear is an element from the original field recording that has been reorganised, stretched or looped. No additional content has been added.
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    1 min
  • 2802: Stress a civilisation, plant a new culture
    The recording was rendered on a public bus from Suzhou city centre (China) to the ancient Tiger Hill Pagoda (Huqiu 虎丘). 
    While an automated announcement in both Mandarin and the Suzhou dialect is aired from one stop to another, constant rattles from a seat compartment are heard alongside with the vehicle motion. 
    However, the lasting impression of this sound event is the repetitious
    slogan, "stress a civilisation, plant a new culture" (講文明 樹新風). Recorded by O. W. Chow. 
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min
  • 2801: At the heart of Santiago
    Santiago's Plaza de Armas reimagined by Andy Lyon. 
    "The recording captured a range of activities and a diverse range of sounds.  
    "It has quite a laid back feeling and I've created a fairly minimal arrangement to compliment and contrast the mood.  I've used a variety of Spitfire Audio libraries, Go2 synth by Rob Papen and a range of Eventide Effects."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    10 min
  • 2800: Plaza de Armas, Santiago
    Every city has one - a central square around which people congregate, where vendors are selling food, drink and souvenirs, and where street performers come together to entertain the crowds - Plaza de Armas is the biggest, most important such square in Santiago. Recorded by Cities and Memory. 
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    7 min
  • 2799: Oxford Birdy Num Num
    Oxford Shotover Park reimagined by Alan Kirker. 
    "The syncopated bird song in the original field recording stood out and serendipitously matched a drum loop with a few tweaks. Slightly edgy ethereal atmospheric loops were then added to lend a futuristic feel. 
    "The Peter Sellers voice sample softens the underlying message:  
    We must look after our feathered friends as they are integral to healthy, biodiverse cities and towns now and into the future."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min
  • 2797: City Imaginaries
    Parisian street soundscape reimagined by Anthony Miller. 
    "I imagined the future city as a dystopian place and wanted to represent echoes of the past in amongst that desolation. I used the segment of the sound of people and car horns. That is the sound that sticks in my memory of being awake at night in the city listening to the street sounds below. "
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    3 min
  • 2795: Another school year begins
    Mukuru primary school reimagined by Connie Lim Keh Nie and Tan Yi Lee.
    "Upon arrival, friends greeting with each other with a big smile, running and skipping with rhythms, dancing to the beat of the dance to welcome a new beginning. 
    "Buzz of several-hundred voices hummed like an orchestra, playful and noisy chatter, bustling and hustling down the corridors, register called, school days begins in Muruku school."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    2 min
  • 2796: The busy streets of Paris from above
    Recorded from a hotel balcony in the 2nd Arr. in central Paris, the sound of busy urban streets, motorcycles, car horns and daily life in one of Europe's most famous cities. Recorded by Cities and Memory. 
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    6 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.