<div>Reitaisai is an important festival held by Shinto shrines in Japan. People from the town where the shrine is located gather and carry a mikoshi (portable shrine) as they parade through the streets. This is a recording capturing the mikoshi approaching and then moving away. Recorded in November 2024 by Miyu Hosoi. IMAGE: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 <<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</a>>, via Wikimedia Commons</div>

Reitaisai is an important festival held by Shinto shrines in Japan. People from the town where the shrine is located gather and carry a mikoshi (portable shrine) as they parade through the streets. This is a recording capturing the mikoshi approaching and then moving away. Recorded in November 2024 by Miyu Hosoi. IMAGE: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Reitaisai is an important festival held by Shinto shrines in Japan. People from the town where the shrine is located gather and carry a mikoshi (portable shrine) as they parade through the streets. This is a recording capturing the mikoshi approaching and then moving away. Recorded in November 2024 by Miyu Hosoi. IMAGE: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 &lt;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</a>&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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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.

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.

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