Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2162: Beasts
    Orangutans reimagined by Jake Gaule (Submerged Tapes).
    "The original recording is of orangutans in Borneo. The calls that they make sounded very aggressive to me so I decided to go down an aggressive route and juxtapose the sounds they were making with some quite intense synthesised sounds. I also made liberal use of pitch shifting and time stretching to distort the vocalisations and chopped up some of the noise to use as percussion/hi-hat type sounds."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    5 min
  • 2161: Strong winds overlooking a cliff face
    Passo del Lupo reimagined by Sebastian Dumitrescu.
    "I wanted to create a partly artificial landscape of weather, and it seems that using a real recording works best. The recording of the wind is always present in the piece, and together with it we can also hear some artificial landscapes that are closely controlled using information from the original recording.
    I thought the original filename (simply describing the content of the recording) was in some way poetic so I decided to keep it as the name of the piece."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    5 min
  • 2160: Meadow
    Jungle House reimagined by Qush Abdul (leholyghost)
    "I’ve always been fascinated with the sounds of nature and for this project, I felt the urge to create sonic entities that has to do with the whole concept of industrialization and a brief statement about the existence of nature in the cycle of life. Currently, I’m working on a collaborative project and it has a similar concept of issues pertaining to the whole existence of beings. 
    I started the track with the sample given, manipulated it with effects triggered in automation to stimulate the industrial sound of work and slowly shift the perspective of being in a jungle, forest or in this case the meadow. The voiceover used is from one of my recordings done back when I was doing my diploma in audio production. It fits nicely with the whole concept of the track on how the existence of nature revolves around the cycle of life. The instruments used are mostly electronic samples and plugins and they are created to represent the sounds of animals or creatures in the “meadow”. It is rather dark and tribalistic as I wanted to create the wildlife’s feelings of unhappiness in this sense."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    4 min
  • 2159: Orangutan long call(s)
    A male orangutan producing a long distance vocalization or long calls under different contexts, Indonesia. Recorded by James Askew. 
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Jack Cain on Unsplash
    2 min
  • 2158: The wolf's wind
    Recorded by Cities and Memory. 
    Strong winds blow alongside a cliff face overlooking the Due Sorelle beach, from the top of the Monte Conero nature reserve in Sirolo, Italy. The path leading up to the cliff face is known as the Passo del Lupo ("Wolf's pass"). The recording was taken from a sheltered spot, over the top of which the wind roared powerfully.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    5 min
  • 2157: Jungle House
    Nature chorus in the garden, Vientiane, Laos. Recorded by Mark Wilden.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    2 min
  • 2156: In the forest at night
    Nature sounds have a therapeutic and calming effect on our minds. Personally, I enjoy spending time in the woods to relax and escape the hustle of modern life and go back to my roots. This audio provides a gentle breeze and many chirping birds.
    Recorded by Marcel Gnauk.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Julien R on Unsplash
    10 min
  • 2155: Finnish sheep
    Recorded by Cities and Memory. On a tiny island, sheep bleat in a small enclosure.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Flavio Gasperini on Unsplash
    2 min
  • 2154: Old forest in spring
    Morning in an old forest in Gloucestershire at springtime recorded by Richard Margoschis / British Library. The shrill notes of a Wren and nasal calls of a Nuthatch, gentle cooings of Woodpigeons, Robin song, a Pheasant crowing and bees humming. Rooks cawing, scolding notes of a Jay, a Blue Tit calling and singing, drumming from a Great Spotted Woodpecker. Also the songs and calls of a Blackbird, Cuckoo, Willow Warbler and Coal Tit.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
    8 min
  • 2153: Mind.Divided Nature Sounds
    Forest sounds reimagined by Mind.Divided.
    "I've always loved just sitting down in a forest and listening to the sound of everything around me. I wanted to create a piece that didn't disrupt that song of nature but rather expresses a sort of admiration for it."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    Photo by Julien R on Unsplash
    11 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.