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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory
Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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    Hippos at night

    02/06/2026 | 9 mins.
    Recorded in the shallows of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. 
    The microphones sit low, really close to the hippos resting in the mud.
    What defines this recording is mass. Around fifteen hippos, mostly stationary, but never still.
    Their presence registers through pressure, slow exhalations, submerged movement, and low frequency vocalisations that travel through both air and water.
    The surface carries subtle detail: displacement, ripples, contact. The sound is continuous but not dense, it breathes, expands, contracts.
    Humidity affects everything. High frequency detail softens, and distant sounds fold into the background. Insects form a constant upper layer, almost static like, but alive.
    There is no clear focal point. The recording holds a distributed weight, multiple bodies moving slowly, sharing space.
    Recorded by Rafael Diogo.
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    The Golden Triangle

    02/06/2026 | 6 mins.
    The Golden Triangle - the point where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet - attracts many visitors. They can be heard in this soundscape along with crashing of the Mekong river. 
    Recorded in Ban Sop Ruak, Thailand by Jake Edwards.
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    Watching the world go by at the Blue Temple

    02/06/2026 | 7 mins.
    This was recorded inside The Blue Temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand. It is filled with people marvelling at the large Buddha and people singing. 
    Recorded by Jake Edwards.
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    The buzz Of Ao Nang night market

    02/06/2026 | 4 mins.
    This is Ao Nang night market, Thailand, where an announcement for Muay Thai can be heard along with musical instruments and the buzz of people.
    Recorded by Jake Edwards.
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    Watching the world

    02/06/2026 | 4 mins.
    "Watching the World is a generative composition which was performed live and built from the recording which was processed through granular synthesis and other effects. The textures, harmonic material were inspired by the recording with a sense of movement and transition which I wanted to capture. 
    "The piece used a system based on four-part harmony (SATB) to organise the arrangement of the granular layers allowing harmonic sequences to emerge. Apart from some of the drums and the sine wave synth, all sounds within the composition originate from the processed recording." 
    Blue Temple, Chiang Rai reimagined by Neil Spencer Bruce.
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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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