Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • Going Underground
    Embankment station reimagined by Colin Ventura.
    "I've only used the original recording, no other sounds have been added. My piece comes about from considering what it means by going underground, for instance imagining entering an underworld, a place that can be frightening and discombobulating if you haven't been there before. The underground is also a place without natural light, so the sounds become heavier and more foreboding the deeper you go. Since Embankment is on the circle line, I also considered the idea of moving continuously, but without ever getting anywhere, of travelling without moving."
    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
  • Tower Hill magnetics
    Tower Hill reimagined by Virgilio Oliveira.
    "The idea for this piece was to create a juxtaposition of the acoustic environment and the electromagnetic sounds existent throughout Tower Hill station.
    The end result brings to the forefront the magnetic dimension which surrounds us.
    The magnetic sounds were captured by me, along the line from Tower Hill to the connecting Monument station."
    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
  • if only I had (Pimlico Station)
    Pimlico reimagined by J. Simon van der Walt.
    "This audio takes its title from Spike Milligan’s ‘Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall’:
    ‘Edgington and I promenaded the decks. Harry stopped: “If only I had a tube.”
    “Why?”
    “It’s quicker by tube.”
    It was entirely constructed from ‘Pimlico 140516.wav’ using SuperCollider and, in a small way, Audacity, as a study in using livecoding techniques to develop a fixed piece."
    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
  • Whitechapel station ticket hall
    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
    2 min
  • Leaving Pimlico Station
    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
  • Edgware Road ticket hall
    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
    3 min
  • Great Portland Street: train arrivals, mind the gap
    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
  • Tower Hill tube station
    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
  • Cardiff City fans, Oxford Circus tube station
    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
    1 min
  • Wembley Central, late at night
    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

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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.