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- 1553: BBC Radio Wales - Sacred Spaces interviewCities and Memory's Stuart Fowkes interviewed about the Sacred Spaces project on BBC Radio Wales, 13 February 2017.6 min
- 1556: BBC World Service - Sacred Spaces interviewBBC World Service's World Update show talks to Stuart Fowkes from Cities and Memory about the sounds of sacred spaces and the role they play in our lives, 14 February 2017.5 min
- 1555: BBC Radio Leicester - Sacred Spaces interviewCities and Memory's Stuart Fowkes interviewed about the Sacred Spaces project on BBC Radio Leicester, 14 February 2017.6 min
- 1554: BBC Radio 4 Today programme - Cities and Memory interviewCities and Memory's Stuart Fowkes interviewed about the Sacred Spaces project on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4, 13 February 2017.4 min
- 1552: BBC Radio Scotland - Sacred Spaces interviewCities and Memory talked to BBC Radio Scotland's "Good Morning Scotland" programme on Monday 13 February about our Sacred Spaces project.5 min
- 1551: The sound of environmental researchReimagined by Cities and Memory. Wytham Woods birdsong merges with synths and manipulated glass sounds.5 min
- 1550: Summer birdsong in Wytham Woods, EnglandRecorded by Cities and Memory. Birdsong in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire - an area of ancient semi-natural woodland to the west of Oxford, UK, owned by the University of Oxford and used for environmental research.5 min
- 1549: Between Two Worlds (Pendock)Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesReimagined by Rob Knight."It's the first piece I have worked on in Ableton/Push and that brought a complete different way of track creation for me. I loved the original recording - the organ reminding of a great big organic synth and though the original is unrecognisable at times due to it being truncated/cut up/effected/reimagined the original recording creeps through and it is the very essence of the whole piece."14 min
- 1548: Silo (Mezquita Mayor de Granada, re-imaginada)Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesReimagined by Acoustic Mirror (Kamen Nedev)."I chose this recording for two reasons. One of them is that it is nota recording of a familiar Muslim call to prayer, but an actualQu'ranic recitation. The other reason is that, reflecting on the whole Sacred Spaces project, I've realised that I tend to associatereligious spaces with voice, and voice resonating and reverberating in space. This also determined my approach to re-imagining the piece - by channelling the sound through an actual echo chamber (really, in a past life, an old construction silo), and playing with thereverberation, echoes, harmonics, feedback and occasional incidental sounds that emerged from this improvised setup."6 min
- 1547: Traditional Quranic recitation, Mezquita de Granada, SpainPart of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesRecorded by Rima Dadenji."This is the traditional Quranic recitation of a juz’ (chapter of the Quran) done in the evening each day at the mosque.In this one they start by reciting Surah al-Rahman. https://quran.com/55 The sound is very beautiful.The Arabic accent you are hearing throughout this recitation is Moroccan because the Shaykh/Imam is Moroccan."23 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