Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

By Cities and MemorySociety & CultureArtsMusicPlaces & Travel
Download on the App Store

Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • 2735: Spectrality
    Nine Emperor Gods Festival sounds reimagined by Fernando Ramalho.
    "There’s no future for cities. A city is already the future, as it is the past and all temporalities merged. 
    "All layers that compose urban life move across time in the form of resonances. 
    "In the form of a spectrality that never ceases to exist, that has no past or future, that exists before and after existence itself."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min
  • 2734: Chuken-Hachiko
    Tokyo subway reimagined by Julian Goldberger.
    "Japan is my favourite country to visit and whenever I’m on a train or subway in Tokyo I often think of Japan’s most famous dog, Hachiko.
    "His story (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hachik%C5%8D) is incredibly moving and inspired this composition that I created with my father. Guitar: Julian Goldberger. Clarinet: Dr. Jacob Goldberger."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    5 min
  • 2733: On board the Tokyo subway
    This is the sound recorded on a train on the Fukutoshin line of the Tokyo subway - tune in for station announcements, the gentle hum of the engines rising and falling as we enter and leave stations, and onboard announcements. Recorded by Keisuke Oki.
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    5 min
  • 2730: Murmurations
    Birds on overheard wires in Kyoto, reimagined by Richard Gadd.
    "I liked hearing the city noises beneath the birds and remembered that the collective noun 'murmuration' (of starlings). 
    "So I attempted to create, using only the original sound file and one other, the energetic flow of a city with its inhabitants and traffic interacting with each other.
    "Cities are contradictory places in which we can hide or be seen or alone in a crowd, so as a counterpoint to the 'city' noise I have a man, a beggar or a monk or on his way to work, singing to himself."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    6 min
  • 2732: Floating above the noise
    Cologne Cathedral reimagined by Max Stottrop.
    "My aim was to emulate the serene feeling that emerges when visiting an old church. 
    "Religious places are spaces where time can slow down, presenting the possibility of forgetting for a brief moment about the busyness of everyday life. 
    "Such retreats are evermore important in the otherwise noise-polluted cites. 
    "Regarding the process: I extracted the background noise, sped it up to generate a cohesive sound, and added a few synth elements to the mix, which slowly decay at the end of the recording. 
    "The bells, which were also present in the original recording function in a way to focus the audience and represents a supportive element."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min
  • 2731: The Pew Sweep of Cologne Cathedral
    "This is an early morning recording of a man sweeping the pews in Cologne Cathedral, exploring sounds traveling around its seven-second echo. I recorded it early one morning in September 2018 with a Sony PCM D-100." Recorded by Neil Verma.
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min
  • 2729: Hundreds of Kyoto birds overhead
    Exiting Kyoto station in the early evening, your attention is arrested by many hundreds of small birds, all lined up symmetrically on the overhead cables and chattering. Their calls become louder and more combative each time a new bird flies in and tries to take up space - constant jostling for space and territory, and the sounds of the natural world and the urban world colliding. Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti.
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min
  • 2728: City dogs
    The sound of stray dogs in Costa Rica reimagined by Richard Watts.
    "I wanted to do something more guitar based and something that had a vastness to it. The background is me using an ebow with overlaid, slowed down dog barks."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    5 min
  • 2726: Magyar Excursions
    Budapest Christmas market reimagined by brekekekexkoaxkoax.
    "As cities continue to grow into mega-metropolises, concentrated capitalism generates ever new markets from destroying normal social relations. 
    "What happens to the farmer's market (American term) when Amazon and Uber-eats exploit the "gig economy" to deliver products directly to you in 90 minutes or less? This piece explores these topics by combining three elements, the supplied recording of a street market in 2019 Budapest, a processed recording of a girl's voice broadcast on Hungarian radio in 1994 (recorded by J. Redl), and a mathematical combination of these two files. 
    "All three of these files have been intertwined amongst each other, simulating a dust that lingers and remembers fragments of pre-Collapse life, a dust that moans under moonless and shapeless clouds. brekekekexkoaxkoax has been sound project of Josh Ronsen since 1996."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    5 min
  • 2727: A little tomorrow
    Siem Reap creature noises in a pond reimagined by Jeff Dungfelder.
    "For my piece "A little tomorrow" I manipulated the unidentified creature sounds from Siem Reap, Cambodia into the sounds of a phone call from the past trying to find the future. 
    "The sample is also used in the background as a low level ambient texture that won't go away, always present. I envisioned "A little tomorrow" as an attempt to visualize a future city, one that can not escape its past."
    Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
    4 min

About Cities and Memory - remixing the world

From the publisher's feed

Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world.