Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2222: A hot summer's day on Great Cumbrae
    Recorded by Ollie Campbell. "A field recording from the side of a small road in the woods on Great Cumbrae. Wind can be heard blowing through the leaves in the trees above. Birds squawk in the middle distance, insects buzz around the recording equipment. A truck can be heard starting its engine and driving off. Holiday makers shout faintly to one another."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    5 min
  • 2222: Cumbraephase
    Reimagined by Tim Floyd. This composition was created entirely from the sounds captured in Ollie Campbell’s Great Cumbrae field recording. Central to the composition is a short, repeating birdsong motif which fractures into shifting patterns and returns to its original form by way of Steve Reich inspired phase shifting techniques. I wanted to preserve the character of the original recording and the sounds of wind in leaves, insects and human voices serve as an audio environment for the phasing birdsong to inhabit.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    2 min
  • 2222: ||: tortoise, slow :||
    "I decided to aleatorically divide the stag grunts and somewhat intervening "silences" into their own tracks. The guttural aspect of the grunts was something that i wanted to detune, stretch and degrade, yet in certain parts, preserve. Using primitive tools (online/free), to match the primitive nature of the "ancient chase", five vignettes were processed and completed." Reimagined by Brian Nickerson.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash
    18 min
  • 2222: Ancient chase
    Glen einich, Inverness, Scotland. Recording on a heathland with trees and bracken on a foggy, dark and very calm autumn evening. Fallow Deer are rutting: the pig-like grunts are from the bucks, the quiet bleats are the does. In the far distance, a Tawny Owl hoots. Recorded by Richard Margoschis / British Library.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash
    6 min
  • 2222: A Secretive Call
    Reimagined by Alex Hehir. 
    "I initially played with the red-throated diver call parts of the field recording and used several techniques such as vari-speed, time stretching to explore and create new sounds. Some play underneath the whole track as textures and others are used as very short percussive-type sounds. This then inspired some rhythmic ideas and the track came alive from there. A lot of the arrangement was formed from live improvisation with my Elektron Octatrack with further editing and processing inside Ableton."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    7 min
  • 2222: Red-throated diver calls
    Red-throated Diver calls, recorded on a freshwater lake in Sutherland, Scotland on 9th May 1975 by Richard Margoschis / British Library. 
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    3 min
  • 2223: Soft Arabian Morning
    Reimagined by Neil Stringfellow.
    "I kept large parts of the field recording intact with no manipulation but I also ran a channel of the recording through the piece with some EQing and reverb. The source sound is edited in places and the odd click and pop taken out. I added some minimal electronic / drone sounds to add an ambient layer but never wanted them to take over and so kept these quite low in large parts of the mix. As I played these added touches I looped little bits of the whole piece but kept it quite open ended and never rhythmic."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    6 min
  • 2223: Sheep and generator, Saudi Arabia
    Recorded by Cities and Memory. 
    A herd of sheep walk past in the desert outside Riyadh, while the drone of a distant generator can be heard.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    4 min
  • 2221: Underwater ambience
    Underwater ambience recorded in Peru at the confluence of the Ucayali and Marañon rivers in 1993 by Jeremy West / British Library.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Haley Rivera on Unsplash
    5 min
  • 2221: When Two Paths Merge
    Reimagined by Jimmy Peggie. 
    "When two paths merge we can observe a coming together of energy, events and ideas. There may be disconnection and turmoil until the combination process is complete. This sound piece uses original and reworked details from the original recording to reimagine the confluence of two paths into one."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Haley Rivera on Unsplash
    10 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.