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- Spirit of the UndergroundBlackfriars to Cannon Street reimagined by Ian Haygreen."Oddly enough it wasn't so much the actual recording but the memory it invoked of when my father took me London (to visit the Natural History Museum) and the first time I went on the underground in the 1970s.Being quite young and with a hyperactive imagination I conjured up a strange underground world which existed in the tunnels beneath the city with weird machines and fantastical beings.So that was in the back of my mind when I started snipping away at the recording, isolating interesting sounds, although I let the sounds follow their own course."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/thenextstation8 min
- Reimagined birdsong and breezeReimagined sounds of birds in Greek mountains by Peter Annear, July 2016.4 min
- Birdsong and breeze - contact mic recordingRecorded by Peter Annear in the Greek mountains - birdsong and breeze on a balcony recorded using contact mics.2 min
- Warwick Avenue to Maida ValeField 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/thenextstation6 min
- Mind Divided - Brixton EntranceBrixton Station reimagined by Paul Verschooten (Mind Divided)."In terms of choosing the location I went with a personal preference: the station close to O2 Academy, a bastion of music and culture in the center of a vivid and dynamic city.The fieldrecording was an inspiration to give the song a very positive and elated feel. There is a part of the fieldrecording where you can hear a woman accepting a free hug and laugh because of it which draws my attention each time. Watching the news and constantly hearing stories of war, terror and negativity makes me think we could all use a hug. After all a hug is a token of affection symbolizing a bond that doesn't discriminate between race, religion, sexuality or age. Go out and hug each other, let's make this world a better place together."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/thenextstation10 min
- Secret sounds from the secret lagoonReimagined sound from the 'secret lagoon' at Gamla Laugin, Iceland by Cities and Memory.4 min
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- Ponte dell'Accademia, VeniceWalking across the Ponte dell'Accademia in Venice on a rainy September afternoon.3 min
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About Cities and Memory - remixing the world
From the publisher's feed
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