Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • HA9 (Wembley Central)
    Wembley Central reimagined by James Mann.
    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
  • Laura, Joking at Edgware Road Station
    Reimagined by Robert van Riel.
    "I have listened to the original recording of the Edgeware Road Station ticket hall quite few times and was convinced that there were a few stories in it. There are two people who can be heard quite clearly and some voices in the background. And a lovely announcement at the end. One of the great samples is of a passing train with a beautiful rhythm.
    But the asking manner in which a man call: “Laura?” and a woman and her friend exchanging (apparent) disappointments, ending with the outcry “You must be joking", are two of the lines I immediately combined. I thought about a blind date on the station, where a man finds Laura, who, in turn, is somewhat disappointed by his appearance and first ideas about what to do next.
    Instead of editing and sampling the original sound file, I decided to just sample the voices and edit those, and leave the rest of the sound file unaltered, except for some volume adjustments and fades at the beginning and end.
    I added a piece original music to it, which had to have a bit of sadness in it, because of the date going wrong. The music is made on an iPad, with an electric piano app, an arpeggiator and effects.
    And that is: Laura, Joking on Edgeware Road 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
    3 min
  • Royal Victoria DLR 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
  • Brass band in Paddington 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
  • Maida
    Maida Vale reimagined by Chris Dunn.
    "My intention with Maida was to go against my usual instinct. Normally I'd make something long and building. I'd try and find subtle overtones and turn them into pads. This time I grabbed the first thing I heard, and ran with it. No second guessing. I set myself the task of using nothing but sounds taken from the source recording and a small selection of plug-ins for processing.
    The result is short, rhythmic and brutal."
    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
  • Oxford Circus collage
    Reimagined by Hitoshi Asaumi.
    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
  • The grind and crush of the rush hour
    Ravenscourt Park reimagined by Andy Billington (Solo1).
    "I spend a lot of time on the London Underground travelling from St Pancras into work in West Acton but never quite make it down to Ravenscourt Park Station. I must go there now....
    I thought of all the commuters in their personal sound worlds as they travelled to and from their places of home and work. I thought of what sounds would invade their personal sound worlds on their journey around Londinium and tried to render this in the track. I also tried to capture a sense of the grind and the crush of rush hour, the natural reverb of the subterranean and the eventual re surface (rebirth?) at the end of the working day."
    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
    11 min
  • Emirates airline cable car 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
    3 min
  • Goodge Street - Karhide reimagination
    Goodge Street reimagined by Karhide.
    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

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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.