Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • Mansion House to Cannon Street
    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
    6 min
  • Piped classical music at Euston Square
    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
    4 min
  • South Kensington subway 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
    1 min
  • Charing Cross station subways
    Field recording from the London Underground by London Sound Survey.
    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
  • Tower Gateway Oyster card failure
    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
    4 min
  • Westminster excited children on a tube journey
    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
    6 min
  • Reimagining Edgware Road (Bakerloo)
    Reimagined by Susanne Grunewald.
    "The approach to the project was twofold: an artistic/philosophical outlook and the desire to put test software I had recently acquired.
    At first I visited the station. As there are two different Edgware Road tube stations I wanted to make sure to assign the correct station to the pre-recorded sound. After confirming that it is indeed the stop on the Bakerloo line, I recorded the environment and also visited several streets around the station to get a better feel of the location and possibly even to creating some memories myself.
    After spending time in the area, I decided to include a blend of Arabic influences to the original sound. The idea was to capture the current conflict within society between tradition and prevalent practices of capitalism.
    The composition is pivoting around the rhythm of the tracks and the wheels of an arriving train in the station and modifications of this sound snippet. At some point the vocals and Ud of the song ‘Lamento Andalusi’ blend into the rhythm of the ever moving train."
    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
  • Baker Street - baggage carts and boomsticks
    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
    6 min
  • The Angels of Islington
    By Tom Miller.
    "“We are the dead.”
    John McCrae, In Flanders Fields (1915)
    The corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road has long been an important London crossroads. For some 500 years it was the site of various incarnations of The Angel, a legendary pub and travelers’ inn. The adjacent underground railway station opened in 1901. A century ago, such rail hubs were scenes of transport for British troops heading to the front in the First World War.
    In this mix, sounds of the bustling contemporary underground station blend with static carrying traces of the ghosts of the First World War, from the excitement and good-byes of leaving for the front to the poison gas bombardment and carnage of trench warfare. The resonant frequencies of the Angel Islington ticket hall resolve into the echoes of a choir and the voice of Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae reciting his famous poem, a memento mori for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who never returned home from the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme.
    Audio sources:
    Angel Islington ticket hall c. 2016
    Cities and Memory & London Sound Survey
    Audio dramas or “descriptive sketches” from 1916-1918
    (contemporaneous recorded re-enactments of war scenes by Maj A. E. Rees and others)
    Gas Shells Bombardment (1918)
    Leaving for the Front (1917)
    For Valour (1917)
    With Our Boys At the Front (1916)
    In the Trenches (1917)
    The Big Push (1917)
    from Historic Voices XI: The Great War LP (Saland Publishing 2008)
    Popular songs from the front and the home front
    There’s a Long, Long Trail – John McCormack (1917) Victrola 10” shellac 64694
    Keep The Home Fires Burning – John McCormack (1914) Victrola 10” shellac 64696
    Will You Remember - Alice Green and Raymond Dixon (1918) Victor 10” shellac 18399-A
    In Flanders Fields
    Poem recited by John McCrae
    Lest We Forget… LP Imperial War Museum AV00824 (2013)
    Choral setting by John Jacobson
    Brisbane Birralee Voices
    Voices of Birralee – Come to the Music LP (2000)"
    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
  • Brixton reimagined
    By Tom Smith.
    "I began reimagining by mixing two stretched out steel drum notes very slowly, creating a gradually evolving texture which was such a contrast to the busy original recording that I decided to explore it more. The result is a different view of an experience we all know well - a surreal, slow-motion glimpse of a busy tube station from afar."
    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

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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.