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- Piazza Duomo, Catania, SicilyPolice sirens, church bells and chatting crowds in the bustling Piazza Duomo, Catania.2 min
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- The memory of airportsReimagined sound of an escalator in Gatwick Airport, London by Cities and Memory. Every sound in this piece is taken directly from the original field recording with no additional sound sources used.7 min
- Gatwick Airport, North Terminal escalatorAn escalator in Arrivals at Gatwick Airport, London, North Terminal.1 min
- Whoa Buck (Marco Alessi version)Part of our Prison Songs project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/prisonsongs.5 min
- The Toy Horse DerbyReimagined sound by Cities and Memory blending the toy horse racing game from Oxford's funfair with the real Derby race from 2014, and some subharmonic low-frequency horse racing.3 min
- St. Giles Fair, Oxford - the Kentucky DerbyRecording from St. Giles Fair, Oxford - the toy horse Kentucky Derby game. Gamers place a £1 bet on one of eight toy horses and win a prize if their horse comes first. By Cities and Memory.3 min
- Eighteen HammersPart of our Prison Songs project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/prisonsongs for full details.Recorded at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1947 by Dr. Harry Oster. Courtesy Archive.org.3 min
- Eighteen Hammers (Lianray Pienaar version)Part of our Prison Songs project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/prisonsongs for full details.Reimagined by Lianray Pienaar."Using the original sound recording taken from the old penitentiary, I began to reimagine the piece by overlaying various textures by means of digital instrumentation. Aside from the minimal EQ reshaping I decided to keep much of the original recording untouched because I didn't want to lose the human, intimate thread. Instead, I wanted to experiment and incorporate new sounds to accentuate interplay between the energy of the original recording and the technological elements, allowing the work to expand in a new direction."5 min
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