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- 2132: Soundwalk along the Malaga shorelineRecorded by Rafael Diogo as part of the Malaga city sound guide.3 min
- 2131: Soundwalk from Alcazaba to Gibralfaro Mirador, MalagaRecorded by Rafael Diogo as part of the Malaga city sound guide.3 min
- 2133: Spanish bodega and tapas, MalagaRecorded by Rafael Diogo as part of the Malaga city sound guide.4 min
- 2128: Dreaming of antimatterEverything heard within this piece is created from processed audio captured within CERN.I wanted to create a dreamlike version of the type of sounds I imagined CERN might produce if you could hold a contact mic against the ground within the complex - capturing all the sounds of the various experiments and activities going on (some of CERN's experiments are deep underground).Using midi randomisation across the various contact mic recordings, I created a morphing array of the various knocks and clunks produced from CERN machinery. The addition of a grain delay effect on some of this audio feels like it might be a slowed down recording of the numerous particle collisions performed within CERN experiments. In the background, meanwhile, the machines at the antimatter factory continue to chug away. Processed sections of this audio provide the airy pad like sounds, whilst pitched down audio from the Universe of Particles exhibition provide the melodies and voice.Reimagined by Andy Gillham.8 min
- 2127: Inside the facilities at CERN, near GenevaThis is an amalgamation of recordings made entirely within the facilities of CERN on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.Alongside a standard field recorder I also took a contact mic - the 'knocks' you hear are via the contact mic on various pieces of equipment that are on public display. These include sounds recorded from a particle accelerator pipe and various other bits of hardware from CERN's past including bubble chambers, an Electron / Positron Collider radio frequency cavity and a voltage doubler.We were lucky enough to visit CERN's antimatter factory where, with the standard recorder, I captured the sound of the various machines busy making antiparticles.Further audio was recorded within the Universe of Particles exhibition at The Globe of Science and Innovation - this is where the fragments of music and speech were captured.Recorded by Andy Gillham.2 min
- 2122: The sidewalks are alive!The sounds of metro trains from beneath at street level, E48th Street and Madison Ave, New York. Recorded by Cities and Memory.4 min
- 2123: Sirens in NYCAmbulance sirens resonate across New York at E46th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue. Recorded by Cities and Memory.2 min
- 2126: Street sounds of New YorkA soundwalk from 8th Avenue and 37th Street, New York, in September 2018\. Recorded by Cities and Memory.3 min
- 2125: In Times SquareStreet entertainers, car horns, traffic and crowd noise in the iconic Times Square, New York.7 min
- 2120: Starlings and helicopters in Central ParkStarlings fight and feed in Central Park, New York, as helicopters pass overhead. Recorded by Cities and Memory.8 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