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- 1450: Bells at the Eglise de Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon, FrancePart of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesRecorded by Martin Smith.2 min
- 1446: St Thomas, Oxford - a pealing celebrationPart of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesRecorded by Cities and Memory. Celebratory peals of bells from one of Oxford's oldest churches, 9.30pm in the evening - recorded on a mobile phone.6 min
- 1444: Southwark Cathedral organPart of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesRecorded by Maria Papadomanolaki.7 min
- 1445: Prayer and Void (Southwark Cathedral)Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesReimagined by Peter Nagle."I like to work with locally sourced ingredients, so a recording made in Southwark, an area I've spent a lot of time in over the years, appealed. Everyhting in this piece is derived from that recording, using a combination of cutting and splicing, stretching and filtering, and collage. There's something about sitting in a church or cathedral, hearing an organ being played that's not for you, just something you're eavesdropping on. It makes me think of the comfort of quiet prayer, a comfort that's not altogether negated mby my firm conviction that there is nothing and nobody hearing it, and that these quiet pleas are evaporating into void."12 min
- 1449: Romanian bells reimaginedPart of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesReimagined by Nimmi Naidoo."I started the process of re-imagining with a very full score, lots of tracks all full of noise and reverb. I gradually stripped out most of the tracks to reach a memory of the original recording."3 min
- The Orthodox Church St. Peter and Paul (Hram Sfântul Petru și Pavel), RomaniaPart of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesRecorded by Alex Hegyesi.3 min
- 1447: A Better Resurrection (Oxford St. Thomas)Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesReimagined by Odette Johnson (Museleon)."I came to this project quite late but although sound #92 was the only Sacred Spaces field recording available, I felt it was a good foundation for a reimagining, not only in the rhythmic beauty of the sound but also the associations I have when hearing pealing bells.The only information I had about St. Thomas’s, was its close association with the early days of the Oxford Movement, which I began to research in more detail. I also have a great love of poetry and it has often been the subject of my music. This led me to the devotional poetry of Christina Rossetti, who was a follower of the Tractarians or High Church Movement. I chose A Better Resurrection (1862), as it expresses the process of transformation from isolation and emptiness towards spiritualism and renewal of hope due to her faith. To me, church bells seem to reflect and be a sonic representation of this journey.I knew that I only wanted to use the bells themselves and a voice, no other instruments, as I wished to marry the tone and rhythm of the poem to the field recording. I took phrases from the poem and rearranged them in a way that they expressed the journey from isolation to hope, repeating phrases, similar to repeated bell changes. The final section has some reference to call and response, as in a church service. With experimentation and processing of samples, the underlying bell sounds morphed into a slow ‘hymn like’ tune, a bit like a small church organ but not losing the essence of the bells. The final section of redemption is reflected in the use of the original pealing bells, overlaying one sample from the beginning and one from the end, referencing the joy of rebirth, as with the spring buds after winter frosts."4 min
- 1448: The Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul (Hram Sfântul Petru și Pavel), RomaniaPart of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesRecorded by Alex Hegyesi.3 min
- 1443: Overcompensation (Wat Pho)Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesReimagined by Tim Lafontaine."The human mind becomes free from discomfort, chaos and expectation.Sampled into Ableton Live. MIDI mapped on hardware and a recorded live."6 min
- 1442: Wat Pho temple, BangkokPart of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspacesRecorded by Benjamin Richards. Peaceful sounds of exploring Wat Pho temple.5 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