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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory
Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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    Glint

    07/04/2026 | 4 mins.
    "The original sound recording immediately reminded me of peaceful moments spent watching light glinting on the water. I improvised to the birds, the sound of the water lapping against the dock and what I imagined to be the sunlight shimmering on the water. 
    "Each time I sat at the piano, I listened out for a different element to respond to and then played around with the sound of each part. I wanted to place myself on that dock, dipping my feet into the cool water, surrounded by all these blissful elements."
    Floating dock at Lake Chiusi reimagined by Jess Bryant.
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    Floating dock on Lake Chiusi

    07/04/2026 | 4 mins.
    The recording is from April 7, 2025 and was made at Lake Chiusi located in the Val di Chiana in the province of Siena, Tuscany. A small floating dock was chosen as the audio recording point. The banging of the dock accompanies the listening of the lake soundscape. It is the lake itself that, with its movement, 'plays' this dock. The random rhythm generated is grafted onto the very rich acoustic environment of the lake.
    Recorded by Nicola Fumo Frattegiani.
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    Tricycle ride to the Castillo fish port

    07/04/2026 | 5 mins.
    The day is coming to an end for the small port town of Cabusao, with most bamboo boats securely tied to the seawall bordering the makeshift and cement homes of the people to restless horizon of the San Miguel Bay. High tide approaches, so two biologists take a battered old tricycle to catch their boat home before the waves get too strong for their ride to dock safely for boarding. From the guttural sputtering of the old motorcycle to the bendy creaking of the rusty carriage, imagine the fish port moving past you all while sitting still. 
    Recorded in the Philippines by Timothy Romero.
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    Cabusao flow

    07/04/2026 | 6 mins.
    "The recording I chose was quite full on, noise-wise, but also incredibly evocative. It felt like a travelogue, and inspired by this and an old audio montage technique used by 'Bomb The Bass' on their debut album 'Into The Dragon', I decided to create a kind of jangling, noisy audio travelogue, featuring localised Filipino radio broadcasts, classical Filipino music, youth-oriented TV interviews, and a sampled, looped, heavily treated rhythm; all anchored by the fluctuating, almost synth-like drone sounds of the original sound recording."
    Cabusao tricycle ride, Philippines reimagined by Tazer McFictionzap.
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    Grooky

    07/04/2026 | 5 mins.
    "For this project, I've chosen a recording that was - very appropriately- named "Loud morning walkers on quiet street". Between other choices, this was the only recording, that made me pause to think about human nature. I became interested in its sonic layers, that oscillated between serenity and chaos. 
    "My idea was to study this interplay, to dissect the parts and to re-imagine a new sonic landscape, where different rhythm patterns represented different textures of the human activity. I've used parts of the original recording as a background layer and, based on the flow of this layer, I've built four different patterns. The final track was played and recorded live with a digital eight track recorder."
    Vancouver morning walkers reimagined by Rin Kaseya.

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About Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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
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