Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • The Next Station. Old Street
    Reimagined by TheFatControlleR
    "Taking some of the 'mechanical' sounds from the recording, sampled, tweaked, stretched, repeated, phased, gated, filtered and panned to form a rhythmic atmospheric backdrop with other elements being placed as highlights and counterpoints.
    On top of which were placed whole segments of the underground life lyric with an electronic music accompaniment, reflecting the clockwork, repetitive, cyclic nature of a living, pulsing mass transit system."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    6 min
  • Covent Garden: tourist directions and lap steel busker
    Field recording from the London Underground by Cities and Memory.
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    5 min
  • The Museum of Soho (Oxford Circus)
    Oxford Circus reimagined by Tony Shrimplin.
    "Oxford Circus tube station is the busiest in England. My inspiration came from this fact. I thought it would be interesting to project it into an alternative future London where only a few people now survive but the public service announcements still continue.
    The soundscape is set in a post Crossrail, post apocalyptic West End.
    Oxford Circus is now overgrown with vegetation but the subterranean tunnels are still used and the last remaining tube ferries the dispossessed to Epping!"
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    1 min
  • La Raverie (Moorgate)
    Moorgate reimagined by Martin A. Smith.
    "This piece is about the transportative power of music and the ability of sound to evoke memories.
    Daydreaming on the tube the evocative sound of the accordion provokes memories of Provence in deepest Summer.
    The train recordings are of the Northern Line and the cigales and church bells were recorded in the forests above St. Remy de Provence and Tarascon in the South of France."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    5 min
  • State of Underground (Camden Town)
    Camden Town reimagined by Fernando Laub.
    "A few days before I produce this piece I had the opportunity to be in London traveling around the underground network, inspiring myself with its particular atmosphere. The aim of this work is to transmit that undefinable mood driven by a mixture of multiple perceptions."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    12 min
  • Anaesthetic for stressed commuters (Euston Square)
    Euston Square reimagined by Leon Muraglia.
    "It's a half-remembered memory of late-night travel through busy London. Sounds of trains, voices, buildings mingling with music in my headphones."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    6 min
  • Order out of Oxford Circus chaos
    Oxford Circus reimagined by Andy Rae from Ithaca Audio.
    "This remix was about doing the opposite. We tried to make order out of chaos - to add space to something very crowded. "
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    3 min
  • Times and Pulses in Stratford
    Stratford Station reimagined by Isabel Nogueira.
    "The original field recording was used in three different tracks, combining times and pulses, and was time stretched all over the song. All these procedures were combined with three experiments with a kaosscilator, wondering what would happen if my imagination could combine the field recording and my internal sounds."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    15 min
  • Repetition in Bank Station
    Bank station reimagined by Antonia Bustamente.
    "To make this audio I cut some sentences and sounds of the original recording, repeated them many times and processed them."
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    1 min
  • Sleepy Commute (Waterloo)
    Waterloo and City line reimagined by Trixie Delight.
    " The field recording of the Waterloo City train journey reminded me of the peculiar state of half sleep commuters often find themselves in. They are in a stuffy, slightly too warm train that is rocking and swaying. They are worn from work, have their eyes closed, slipping in and out of a light sleep - but are subconsciously listening to the familiar noises of the tracks, until the sound of the train pulling into the station brings them back to life just in time to alight. I tried to describe this dreamlike condition with sound. The little clicks and glitches are the commuters' sleepy thoughts, while the noise of the train is both present as a back ground drone and a wavelike stab into the subconscious, updating on the current location and gently rocking back and forth in echo.
    I am an experimental musician and mostly work with field recordings. I like to evoke moods with manipulated sounds. My tools are simple: I use audacity to cut, reverse, glitch, pitch and stretch sounds. I then arrange the created snippets in an order that tells a story. All the sounds used in “Sleepy Commute” are derived from the original field recording of a 5 minute train journey. Mixed and mastered by Dental Drill (TCFSR.net) at The Patisserie"
    Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation
    4 min

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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.