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- 1666: Ode To Joy - Unite for Europe marchUnite For Europe march, central London, March 2017. Protesters chant "Theresa May, go away" before a man begins singing the EU anthem "Ode To Joy" in German. Recorded by Cities and Memory.Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest4 min
- 1665: They built a hotel in SyriaHamburg anti-ISIS protest reimagined by Cities and Memory.Over a musical recomposition of the original recording, we examine the attitudes and perspectives of various global political leaders to dealing with ISIS. You'll hear Theresa May, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama give their thoughts, while Donald Trump incredulously claims that ISIS are in competition with him in the real estate business.Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest5 min
- 1664: Anti-ISIS protest, Reeperbahn, HamburgA city-wide anti-ISIS protest march reaches the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. Police escort the protesters, who are led by men with megaphones delivering speeches punctuated with cries of "Stop dem ISIS! Stop dem Terror!". Recorded by Cities and Memory.Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest8 min
- 1663: In San Martin SquareRecorded by Vanessa Valencia Ramos."San Martin Square is known as a place where people talk, share, and debate about politics, religion and other current affairs topics, both local and national. In the first protest we hear one of the "etnocacerista' militants, called "the poet commander', who using his words, uncovers his thoughts about Peruvian politics and, without a doubt, mentions names of political leaders who got people talking in the last elections for their proposals as well as their liberal ideas.In the second act, an Inca priest talks about the revenge of food, about which we have little or no information. Right now, in our country, the Grupo Gloria is facing one of its biggest crises with one of its brands (Pura Vida) because of the banning made by Panama, and over here the authorities had to discuss the issue."Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest20 min
- 1655: F**k Your Austerity (Greece)Greek anti-austerity protest reimagined by Alex Hehir.""This started as a musical jam in response to the angry austerity march/riot in Athens,Greece.Many of the supporting sounds are made from the original and the field recording runs throughout the track(albeit completely twisted)I also felt compelled to record a simple and rather blunt message in amongst the noise and beats.This is the first protest 'song" I have ever written and it was a blast....:) "Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest5 min
- 1662: The traces of ghostlike sounds (Madrid)Madrid protest reimagined by Luba Diduch."I used Audacity employing effects such as reverb, changes in speed and reversing portions of the clip.When I first I listened to the clip I thought about how protests such as these have occurred through history, and how sounds of banging pots can be made very simply using ready-to-hand implements. I was interested in some of the percussive and vocal elements in the clip. I also thought about how sound vibrates through time. This led me to use one continuous slowed-down track as a main structure for arrangement in the composition. For me, this main track symbolizes the traces of ghostlike sounds created during these protests such as these that continue to reverberate infinitely through time."Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest4 min
- 1661: Global Noise, MadridRecorded by Kamen Nedev."In 2011, the #15M movement introduced a new element in the protest vocabulary of the city of Madrid. Caceroladas, pot-banging and other forms of rough music, very popular in Latin America, were virtually unheard of here. (Not so Barcelona, where there has been a tradition in pot-banging protests ever since the major 2003 anti-war protests).Around the first anniversary of the #15M protest, in May 2012, the first caceroladas started taking place in Madrid. The major one, and, by far, the largest (and loudest) cacerolada ever in the city took place on October the 13th 2012, following the #GlobalNoise call for action. It was a huge demonstration which took over 5 hours to cross the city centre, and was followed by thousands.This piece is a subjective impression of that afternoon, following the phonographer from his kitchen all the way to the end of the demo in Puerta del Sol. It was part of the Augmented Spatiality exhibition, curated by María Andueza in Hökarängen, Stockholm, 2013."Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest6 min
- 1660: Politics 404NYC protest reimagined by Manuel Guerrero."“Politics 404” refers to the famous internet’s Error 404, thinking about the political protests as the moments when we realize that something it’s wrong with the way that the goverment is working. People on streets reveals the error, but a possible solution too.So, taking this idea i decided to make a narrative-reimagined sound where, as long as the protest march forward, the context begins to be “incomprehensible”: full of sonic glitches at the middle, the tracks confronts whom listen with the mistakes, painting a harsh soundscape. At the end, the audio restores his “logic” just with the voice of the people.For the technical solutions, for the first time, I chose a software to “destroy” the original track: SoundGrain, a graphical interface, allows the user to control granular sound synthesis, producing some glitched textures. For the audio editing of some parts i used, as usual, Garageband."Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest6 min
- 1659: Drowning out another protest (New York City)Recorded by Keira Simmons."Counter-protesters stage a noise demonstration (whistles, vuvuzelas, screams, cowbells, drums) to drown out anti-Muslim speakers at an event in Foley Square. NYPD police broadcast warning message to counter-protesters to remove masks from their faces or they will be liable for arrest. "Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest2 min
- 1658: Binding women to their homes (Istanbul)Recorded by Jacek Smolicki."March 30, 2012: a recording of a street manifestation in Istanbul, Turkey. I recorded this minute spontaneously, without knowing the exact reason of the protest."Part of the Protest and Politics project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/protest1 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