Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2281: Experimentation n°4
    Reimagined by Allysse Riordan.
    "When I was assigned this recording and first listened to it, I knew I wanted to work with the colobus chorus. But for a long time I wasn't sure what to do with it. Until I started to search for a melody inspired by the field recording. The melody slowly formed, gradually refined by the memory of the chorus, and the piece came together easily after that."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    3 min
  • 2280: Swedish forest
    Wind, woods and some birds - recorded by Fredrik Nilsson.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Andy Feliciotti on Unsplash
    3 min
  • 2279: Colobus chorus
    Recorded by Daan Hendricks.
    "We visited the rainforests of Mabira, Kibale, Kalinzu, Bwindi and Mgahinga, each sporting their own blend of vegetation and wildlife. Monkeys such as black and white colobus, mangabey, red tailed monkey and olive baboon were ubiquitous; the great apes, chimpanzee and mountain gorilla, of course less so. We did hear both types of ape occasionally in the distance."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    6 min
  • 2278: Indonesian pigs
    Recorded by Marcel Gnauk.
    "One pig was so cute. She was separated from the others and I guess because she is just younger. She wanted to be pet the whole time and was super calm and relax.
    The other four pigs lived together on the site of the wall and they had a lot to say."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Pascal Debrunner on Unsplash
    2 min
  • 2268: A Quiet Place
    Reimagined by Oliver Koch. 
    "Noise pollution might have been recognized as a problem in some parts of the world. However, its effects need further investigation. This might be even more true to sounds beyond our perception such as electromagnetic waves. Essential to human activities but inaudible to ours ears, electromagnetic radiation has an impact on nature. “A quiet place” is about these hidden layers of sound and addresses questions of acoustic disturbance that arise as soon as places like the region around Andalién River in Chile become subject to man-made progress."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    4 min
  • 2271: Wetland rocuant​-​andalien
    Recording of the Rocuant-Andalién wetland in Talcahuano by Valentina Villarroel Ambiado.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    2 min
  • 2277: Infinite Nightingale
    Reimagined by Cities and Memory.
    The nightingale is known throughout the world for its beautiful intricate song - the bird itself far more often heard than seen. For this piece, we wanted to put the very song of the nightingale under the microscope, to give it a forensic and deep examination. The main drones are various passages of nightingale song slowed down to 20x and 30x their normal speed and pitch-shifted. Over the top of that, processed sections of nightingale call punctuate the piece, and out of the microscopic examination of the pure sound, a different kind of music starts to emerge, perhaps the DNA of the nightingale's song. 
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    6 min
  • 2276: Nightingale song, Kent
    Nightingale song recorded by Phil Riddett in Hemsted Forest, Kent on 27th April 2008\. Recorded by Phil Riddett / British Library. 
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    3 min
  • 2274: Otus Scops improv
    Reimagined by Jasna Jovicevic.
    ""Otus Scops Improv" is one of the improvised music pieces from the album "The Sound of Birds", artistic part of a powerful civil movement , which took place in Serbia from 2013-2015\. The album was a part of an artistic public campaign for protection of endangered doves, from illegal hunt, especially in the territory of the Nature Park "Palić" Special Nature Reserve "Ludaško Lake" in Vojvodina; where we succeeded in the battle, forming Coalition and legal initiative, changing the law. These were the locations where we recorded the sounds.
    The album is original music I composed and improvised ( recorded and toured), by using recorded bird songs, which I put in different musical and geopolitical situations, forms and roles in the songs, by stretching, editing, detuning, decelerated and combined with acoustic instrumentation, changing its meaning as a resource. Soundscapes can deeply, effectively and responsibly influence the human mind, and is useful as a gentle strategy in Ecology- Nature love and care distribution. 
    In this song, we sampled the bird sounds into midi controller EWI ( Electronic woodwind Instrument), so I used the sounds as if they were part of the so called horn sound. I could produce them with my air, and change their pitch on my midi instrument, combined with other midi sounds. The whole composition is a momentary improvisation
    Artists:
    Jasna Jovicevic - concept, EXI
    Bojan Bojic - sempling, sound effects
    Armand Mesaros - el.bass guitar"
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    7 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.