Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2012: Foley artist frogs
    Frogs in Fort Canning Park reimagined by Cities and Memory.
    Taking inspiration from sound effect and foley artists in movies often starting with animal sounds as their base to create fantastic monster sounds, here we've built a soundscape including weird alien calls that have been constructed from the original frog sounds. 
    Every sound in the piece is derived from the original recording.
    Photo by Matthew Kosloski on Unsplash.
    4 min
  • 2009: Wua Lai night market, Chiang Mai
    Wua Lai night market, Chiang Mai, Thailand, recorded by Marcel Gnauk of Free to use Sounds. 
    "This market is every Saturday and one of the biggest and longest markets in Chiangmai and if I remember correctly the largest I have ever been. You can hang out easily 3 hours and get lost between all the vendors, the locals, and the tourists. 
    "The length of the street is about 1 km with many little sideways alleys. You can visit the market starting at 4 pm until midnight.
    "If you don’t like crowded places then maybe you should go to one of the other daily night markets because it’s just crazy here. Thousands of people coming here each Saturday and walking up and down the small road."
    5 min
  • 2008: Howler Monkeys from Outer Space
    Costa Rican howler monkeys reimagined by Cities and Memory. We've reimagined the howler monkeys as the monsters from some 1950s sci-fi B-movie, by splicing multiple trailers, soundtracks and dialogue samples from different Z-rated monster movies into a soundscape in which the guttural howl of these wonderful creatures takes centre stage.
    3 min
  • 2007: Howler monkeys in Costa Rica
    Recorded by Marcel Gnauk of Free To Use Sounds. 
    "I looked out of our apartment window and only two meters from me, I saw a howler monkey family with over 10 monkeys sitting and eating in the tree. I took my equipment as fast as I could and started recording and the “concert” began."
    7 min
  • 2006: The Thousand Bird Chorus
    Birds in Chiang Mai, reimagined by Cities and Memory. 
    Every sound in the piece is taken from the original field recording, effected and processed in various ways. The sheets of drones represent the "blanket" effect of hearing all of the birds sing as one, creating a sheet of indistinguishable song. The individual arpeggiated sounds represent listening in more closely, and picking out the songs of individual birds from amongst the noise, like tuning into one person's conversation in a crowded room.
    Image by Alex Martinez via Unsplash.
    7 min
  • 2006: Hundreds of birds, Chiang Mai, Thailand
    Hundreds of birds singing on overhead power lines, recorded by Marcel Gnauk. 
    "I am not sure how many birds but at least a few hundreds are sitting on the powerlines and chirping extremely loudly. I remember a few months ago recording sounds of a few thousand herons in Bali but this one is a little bit different.
    "I couldn’t avoid the street noise because its right next to four site intersections.
    "I came back on the next morning to get some photos of the place but the birds are all gone. What you can see is a ton of poop on the ground, on the wires and on my helmet!"
    4 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.