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- 2684: Musical chimes - Schwäbisch Gmünd Market SquareThis recording captures the musical bells of the local town hall that ring every hour in Schwäbisch Gmünd market square. Recorded by Colin Hunter.Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .3 min
- 2685: RemnantsGerman musical clock reimagined by Steph Merchak."The picture I have of future cities is noise and chaos."To translate this into sound, I decided to deconstruct the recording of the musical clock in Schwäbisch Gmünd Market Square. The piece starts with a drone pad that brings a layer of cold dystopian future. This pad was made from scratch using Operator and various Ableton Live effects."Four instances of the original recording were stacked.They were stretched up to 10 times their length and pitch shifted independently. The Max4Live Granulator device was used to transform one additional instance of the original recording into grains."Additional chaos was achieved by using envelopes on various parameters.The piece ends with the deconstructed elements from the original recording disappearing in reverb as if any remnants from the city as we know it was vanishing forever."Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .7 min
- 2682: Birds are coming home"Hundreds of mynas flock the trees in town every evening after foraging in the nearby paddy fields in the daytime. They are social animals, but they compete with each other, too, for a grasp to secure a good sleep."When recording, the recordist scrolled along the roadside, moving from a tree to another and back. Occasionally, slow motorbikes are heard passing by in this rather quiet little town, while a dozen of crows that were forced out of the trees by the mynas were heard in the background." Recorded by Chow Ow Wei.Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .4 min
- 2683: CommunicationBirds flocking in Sekinchan, Malaysia, reimagined by Richard Watts. "I was trying to capture the complexity of the way birds communicate with one another."Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .5 min
- 2681: Candles, floatingSerbian church candles reimagined by Glenn Sogge. "The sounds of nature are more and more mediated by the activities of humankind. Even simple water and city white noise are filtered through our media devices and scattered attention-seeking."Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .8 min
- 2680: Church candles fizzing in the waterRužica Church (outside), Belgrade, Serbia: Candles in standing water - recorded by Mark Wilden.Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .2 min
- 2679: Minute of silence"The vibrant city of Warsaw went about its business in the 1930s. The war came, the city was destroyed, and rose again as a modern metropolis. But every 1 August, at 1700 in the afternoon, the old Communist-era loudspeakers crackle to life on the main square, as a reminder that resistance made a huge difference, and citizens must never forget what happened. If the past is forgotten, war can come again in the future, and the modern city will be blown to bits, leaving only faint radio static…" Reimagined by John Tenney.Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .5 min
- 2679: 73rd anniversary of Godzina "W" in Krakow"I captured these sounds at the 73rd anniversary of "W" Hour in the expansive Rynek Glówny in Kraków. Every year throughout Poland on 1 August at 5:00pm, alarm signals and sirens are turned on. Public transport, buses, tramways many cars and pedestrians stop in silence. 'W' Hour was the codename for the date and time that began Operation Tempest in German occupied Warsaw, and hence the Warsaw Uprising. The exact time was 5:00 PM, 1 August 1944." Recorded by Michael Gatonska.Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .6 min
- 2678: Ressha racketJapanese train crossing reimagined by Alan Bleay."From the original sound recording, I managed to use the source sounds to create percussion and sound design pieces which were pinned to a backdrop using two software synths trying to capture the industrial qualities of a modern railway system."Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .5 min
- 2677: Warning beep and train driveby, JapanWarning beeps at a train crossing, followed by a two-train flypast in Osaka, Japan. Recorded by Marcel Gnauk.Part of the Future Cities project (http://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities) .2 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