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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes
- 1845: Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, JapanThe world-famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo, recorded by Giulia Biasibetti. From all four corners, billboards blast out music and speech-based advertising selling all kinds of products. Underpinning this is the constant drone of traffic from all sides and the chatter of hundreds of people passing by. A chaotic but iconic soundscape.4 min
- 1844: A sound painting of ShibuyaShibuya Crossing, Tokyo reimagined by John Wiggins."The world gives me sound objects that I can manipulate and create with. I take everything out of context and paint."2 min
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- 1843: Ice cream vendor, MyanmarAn ice cream vendor selling his wares in Old Bagan, Myanmar. Recorded by Tenali Hrenak.1 min
- 1842: On the airwaves of RiyadhCall to prayer reimagined by Cities and Memory.Saudi Arabia is a country of subtexts and undercurrents, particularly in its current state of transition. In listening to a typical call to prayer broadcast out into the midday sunshine from a nearby minaret, I wanted to explore what else might be hidden on the airwaves across Riyadh, if only we knew which bandwidths to tune into. Blended in are other calls to prayer and idents/interval signals from Saudi radio stations, both present and from the 1970s - pirate radio, illicit music and late-night broadcasts are suggested over the audible soundscape of Riyadh.3 min
- 1841: Riyadh Four Seasons - call to prayer and fountainRecorded by Cities and Memory. A fountain hisses outside the Four Seasons Hotel, beneath Riyadh's Kingdom Tower, as a brief call to prayer is broadcast outside from a nearby minaret. Recorded on Samsung Galaxy 7.1 min
- 1840: Old Bagan (live mix)Old Bagan horse and carriage recording reimagined by Dave Webb:"I chopped out five loops from the original sample, which I chose as it straight away suggested potential percussive loops. I played those loops in a DJ mixing app on my phone, looped, then split them into bass, mid and treble and fed them through several effects chains, before mixing them all back together again."All performed live, channeling, I hope, my disgust at the terrible way human beings can treat each other."11 min
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- 1835: Kyway En, a dice-like game from MyanmarRecorded by Tenali Hrenak. A group of people play Kyway En, a rolling dice-like game using seashells, in Bagan, Myanmar.3 min
About Cities and Memory - remixing the world
From the publisher's feed
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