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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes
- 7 min
- Padova's buskers, an Edwardian dreamA reimagination of Padova's violin buskers, set in the city's past.4 min
- Violin and piano buskers, PadovaVia Zabarella, Padova, Italy - a violin and piano busking duo entertain the Christmas crowds.6 min
- Glitch CubaHavana, reimagined by Andy Lyon."I wanted a predominantly ambient sound with a hint of glitch / noise. It took several takes to get the levels right, I was editing the glitchy percussion on the fly which kept causing output peaks, a brickwall limiter and turning the level right down sorted it in the end. The perils of live editing!"8 min
- Obispo Street, Havana, CubaJack Hyde's recording from Havana, Cuba on one of the city's liveliest streets.2 min
- Exotic ToiletsBy Richard Talbot - ambient reimagining of his own recording from Norton Canes service station, UK.1 min
- Norton Canes Services, Staffordshire UKBy Richard Norton. "I was traveling on the M6 yesterday and stopped for some petrol at Norton Canes Services. I paid for my fuel and used the toilets at the petrol station. It was bizarre, they had a loud tape of exotic birdsong on a loop and the walls were covered in sunflower pictures. As I was the only person in there I couldn’t resist grabbing a quick recording on my iPhone and taking some pictures. Thankfully, no-one came in while I was doing it!"1 min
- Perforator Pop!By Vlad Suppish."While recording stuff in the city of Kiev, I've recorded perforator drill in corridor of friend's apartment.This week, inspired by Cities and Memory, I've revisited a lot of my field recordnings and stumbled on this one again.So eventually I took 2 seconds long snippet (4th second of raw recording), loaded it in Korg Electribe ESX1 samplerand created short sketch using only this sample as the only source.It's always quite amazing what you can do with tiny but harmonicaly rich sound!The result is short synth-pop flavoured track, reminiscent of Depeche's 'Construction Time Again' sound."2 min
- Perforator drill, Kiev, UkraineBy Vlad Suppish."While recording stuff in the city of Kiev, I've recorded perforator drill in corridor of friend's apartment.This week, inspired by Cities and Memory, I've revisited a lot of my field recordnings and stumbled on this one again.So eventually I took 2 seconds long snippet (4th second of raw recording), loaded it in Korg Electribe ESX1 samplerand created short sketch using only this sample as the only source.It's always quite amazing what you can do with tiny but harmonicaly rich sound!The result is short synth-pop flavoured track, reminiscent of Depeche's 'Construction Time Again' sound."1 min
- Celestial drone operaA reimagination of a singing lesson overheard in the grounds of New College, Oxford University, by Cities and Memory, February 2016.4 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