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- Mexico City organ grinderRecorded by Joao van Zelst. "Cilindrero" or Organ Grinder is a street musician in Mexico City who plays mechanical piano to entertain the passing busy crowds. Centro Historico Calle de Tacuba, Mexico.1 min
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- Mexico City (street mix)Richard Fair reimagines the sounds of salesmen in Mexico City's Plaza de la Constitution."I sampled the street vendor into a drum beat that I’d created and then let the whole thing take me somewhere new. I conjures up pictures in my head of colourful streets filled with the sounds of busy shoppers and persistent vendors."5 min
- Kola Loka salesman, Mexico CityKola Loka vendor at the Zócalo in Mexico City. The main plaza of Mexico City is commonly known as the Zócalo but is official name is 'Plaza de la Constitution'. It has been a gathering place for Mexicans since Aztec times. The Zocalo and surrounding blocks have played a central role in the city's planning and geography for almost 700 years. Today street vendors and performers fill up its surrounding streets creating an enormous outdoor market selling just about everything. By Joao van Zelst.1 min
- La entranable transparenciaReimagined version of Cafe Guama, Cuba, by Fernando Ramalho."That verse from Carlos Puebla’s chorus is perhaps the one that illustrates more clearly the way I learned to imagine Cuba and its revolutionary experience: la entrañable transparencia. A rebel island, a piece of utopia achievable from everywhere. The field recording that formed the basis for this exercise was captured in Ciénaga de Zapata, a region highly populated by flamingos and crocodiles, a suggestive intersection of beauty and resistance."3 min
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- NASA space storm, New JerseyReimagined version of New Jersey storm, using nine layers of effected storm sounds, plus selected NASA space recordings. By Cities and Memory, March 2016.7 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