Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes
- 1796: Lake Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego, ArgentinaField recording taken at Lake Fagnano in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Includes the soundof attempts to extract cars from a very muddy track.Recorded by Mark Baldwin on Zoom H4N Pro.4 min
- 1795: That sound that you weren’t supposed to hearReimagined by John Wiggins."Many times recording in the field, I felt a little like a spy. I used to record at the pay phones in a busy train station and then edit the one-sided conversations together, so I am a bit of a sneak. And I always loved that sound that you weren’t supposed to hear, a snippet of dialog, someone’s headphones blasting as they walk by, yelling way over there. That’s what the San Pedra de Atacama School marching band rehearsing seemed to be to me. They’re still working on it and they’re playing somewhere over there. The DIN that always fascinated me so. I just tried to be part of the band."2 min
- 1794: Marching band rehearsal, San Pedra de Atacama, ChileA school marching band rehearses on a sports field in San Pedra de Atacama, Chile. Recorded by Mark Wilden.3 min
- 1793: Puerto Natales - Freight remixChile ferry sound reimagined by Karhide."The whole tract was built around the synth sounds created with the field recording and Audio Damage Automaton. Additional glitched and filtered versions of the field recording are layered to add the additional sounds. The only other samples used are the kick, snare, clap and closed hi hat. The initial track was started in FLStudio and then mixed in Sonar."3 min
- 1792: On board a docked ferry, Puerto Natales, ChileField recording taken on board the Navimag Evangelistas ferry while docked at Puerto Natales, Chile.Recorded by Mark Baldwin on Zoom H4N Pro.3 min
- 1791: Bubbling underground in BoliviaReimagined sound of bubbling water spring on the Bolivian salt flats, by Martin Juenke.4 min
- 1790: Bubbling spring on the Bolivian salt flatsField recording of a bubbling spring of cold salt water taken in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. Recorded by Mark Baldwin on Zoom H4N Pro.Altitude: 3,664.52 m (12,022.71 ft)2 min
- 1789: Metronomics (Beijing, China)Reimagined, rhythm-based take on the Beijing metro by Cities and Memory. All sounds are derived from the original field recording with no additional sound sources.3 min
- 1788: A trip on the Beijing metro, ChinaField recording taken on subway line 1 between Guomao and Dawanglu stations on the Beijing metro, China. Recorded by Mark Wilden on Edirol R-09 for citiesandmemory.com.3 min
- 1787: Birds inside the PantheonReimagined by Cities and Memory.Looking up at the circular hole in the roof of the Pantheon, sunlight pouring through and illuminating its perfect architecture, is a mesmerising moment. Simultaneously I imagined how it would be if songbirds flew in through the roof and circled overhead, calling, and brought to mind some of the devotional sounds that just being in this space conjured up inside me. These two feelings came together in the reimagined piece, in which I imagined that the voice next to me ("twelve, sixteen, twenty...") was counting the flying songbirds above us.4 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