Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2542: The Transient
    Bremen trams reimagined by Gregory Kramer.
    "The words "Spirit" and "Lost", from this location's' three-word address, resonate with the original recording. Despite being from a tram station, the recording has a somewhat desolate feel. It could be late at night when there are few people around and spirits are wandering, lost. This was my inspiration for the piece. Do we hear evidence of lost spirits? Is the listener disoriented or lost, perhaps having imbibed spirits? Has a lost "Handbag" (the third location-word) been abandoned at the station, a mute witness to the late night scene? The soundwork depicts an uneasy and otherworldly space."
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    7 min
  • 2539: Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof
    Inside the main train station in Stuttgart, Germany, recorded by Marcel Gnauk.
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    9 min
  • 2541: ///oxford.tape.combining
    Blackwell's bookstore reimagined by Michael Lilley.
    "I imported the original field recording into my iPad via a cassette tape emulator, before combining multiple loops with themselves.
    Moreover, I allowed the hiss from the combined layers to remain, retaining the authentic tape feel!"
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    7 min
  • 2540: Egyptian Section
    British Museum reimagined by Narcosislabs.
    "The Egyptian Section of the London British Museum is fairly large so I selected a grid point near the center giving ///minute.ample.organs. I used the words "ample" and "minute" (as in "marked by close attention to details" rather than as 1/60th of an hour.) Ample details. Ample attention to minutiae.
    "This led to selecting small samples and grains and overlaying them on top of the original sound to create a bed of time that might be a version of the memory of the walkthough of the Egyptian Section represented in the original file."
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    7 min
  • 2538: The Egyptian collection, British Museum
    London is famous for its museums, and the British Museum is one of its oldest and most venerable. Here we walk from the famous Egyptian exhibition full of mummies and statues and tour the museum from there. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    4 min
  • 2537: The secret life of a bookshop
    The hum of a quiet bookshop in central Oxford. Feel the learning! Recorded at Blackwell's, Oxford by Cities and Memory.
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    2 min
  • 2535: Bali Funeral Procession
    Bali waves reimagined by Michael Competielle.
    "Reformat as to erase the past and create a new future. My sound was inspired by the thoughts of a rebirth as a funeral procession brings the deceased family cow to be its final resting place in the ocean. Its carcass to be reused as privations for the oceans fish life. The story intensified as the funeral ceremony nears its end with a final ring of the temple bell."
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    4 min
  • 2536: VergePlotsTribe | Exit Strategies
    Brexit protest reimagined by Adam Hulbert.
    "During World War One, the radio became a weapon, co-ordinating strikes over distance. With Brexit we saw the emergent weaponisation of Facebook (VERGE) as a tool of division through the data collection of Cambridge Analytica (PLOTS). This same tool then helped organise massive protests (TRIBE) against the results of this weaponisation against the population.
    My reworking of a recording of Brexit protest marchers in the UK was made using Eurorack modular. VERGE was a precipice: I leaned into an electromagnetic theremin which output x and y co-ordinates as controlled voltage, and these were mapped over a dome and spread across the system. For PLOTS I sent the audio and sequences through matrices so that they were strategically deployed to specific zones. Obscured in much of the process--but impacting the overall result nonetheless--was the underlying recording of the TRIBE, the citizens of this new cybernetic dystopia, gathering in the mutual dream of spaces between the network."
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    6 min
  • 2534: Game State
    Port Talbot football match reimagined by Nour Sokhon.
    "The composition commences with snapping sounds resembling the big asymmetrical claws of a shrimp.
    A constant beat is present throughout most of the soundscape to create tension and rhythm in order to heighten the suspense of the race. Radio signals interrupt fragments of the overall soundscape acting as a beam that is broadcasting the live game from a distant memory."
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    15 min
  • 2532: Port Talbot vs. Hull City, 2 August 2015
    A lively crowd makes up for their lack of numbers at a tiny provincial football stadium in Port Talbot, Wales. Here we can hear chanting, and the sounds of the fourth goal being scored. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    Part of the Three Words project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/three-words
    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.