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- 2785: Natural sufferingEssen city soundscape reimagined by Jamie Frye."This piece was inspired by a musical tone within the original field recording. The natural xylophone in this extreme urban and brutalistic environment had a charm that which was the only thing that mimicked nature in this dystopian landscape."The original recording has no natural sounds which are audible, highlighting the fact we are driving ourselves into a dark dystopian future."My piece represents a synthetic city and the sounds it creates. I believed only using a synthesizer to mimic these layers represented the harshness of our robotic modern world."Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities4 min
- 2784: The energy company xylophoneCars (Autobahn) & trains (main station) accompany waving flags and clicking traffic lights, forming a natural xylophone. Here in front of the energy companies, the sound is still from the past decade. Recorded in Essen, Germany by Nils Mosh.Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities6 min
- 2783: Kota Masa DepanAS Cittadella ultras reimagined by Fahmi Mursyid."I feel on the future city has more quiet and chaos at the same time. People know how to reduce or control the noise from everything with new technology. I composed this piece to reflect this idea."Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities6 min
- 2782: Ultras on a boatThe away fans of AS Cittadella are travelling to a local derby match at rivals Venezia - being in Venice, we have to take a boat to this unique island stadium.During the boat ride, as well as the vaporetto engines, we are treated to a display of all their most popular songs as the fans sing out of the boat towards the bemused citizens of Venice on the banks opposite.Recorded by Cities and Memory.Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities7 min
- 2781: Highway ghostsVietnam steelworking reimagined by Chris Ray (Enisle)."I imagined the construction sounds left over after work had completed. Late night ghostly echoes of the toil and graft."Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities4 min
- 2780: Shallow WatersValparaiso ascensores reimagined by Iván Aguayo."Last year I went to Valparaiso and while it's lively in some parts, the truth is there are a lot of worn out buildings in the surroundings."Somehow the sound of the elevators, slow and heavy, reflects the state of the older structures, as it started to decay itself along with the city."This influenced my composition, which is languid, heavy and industrial, as the city slowly decomposes."Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities5 min
- 2779: TOKYOYKOTA Tokyo train ride reimagined by Leon Muraglia."A picture of how headphone tech transforms chaos into gleaming, utopian space."Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities2 min
- 2778: Early morning on the Paris metroThis is a recording of Metro Line 14 in Paris from Olympiades to Saint-Lazare Station. The whole ride takes less than 15 minutes and I kept some ambient sounds from the stations before and after; the recording was made before 8.00 am between Christmas and New Year's Eve, so there was hardly anyone on the train. Recorded by Jeremy Simoncello.Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities18 min
- 2777: Steel workers in VietnamSteel work = lots of noise! Here's a recording by Marcel Gnauk of steelworking taking place on the streets of Da Nang, Vietnam.Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities3 min
- 2776: Shizuoka - life in the fast laneSounds from inside an incredibly busy Japanese train station - announcements, crowds and a wonderful spread of sounds across the stereo field. Recorded by Marcel Gnauk.Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities2 min
About Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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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.
The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world.
What you'll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those sounds. Each podcast description tells you more about what you're hearing, and where it came from.
There are more than 8,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 140 countries and territories. The sounds cover parts of the world as diverse as the hubbub of San Francisco’s main station, traditional fishing women’s songs at Lake Turkana, the sound of computer data centres in Birmingham, spiritual temple chanting in New Taipei City or the hum of the vaporetto engines in Venice. You can explore the project in full at www.citiesandmemory.com