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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory
Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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    Clown on the move

    02/06/2026 | 1 mins.
    This sound is a field recording taken a public transport bus, on the "Huipulco - Six Flags" bus line, in Ajusco, Mexico City. The recording features a clown who boarded the bus and gave a performance for its passengers. Also audible is a traditional Mexican song, featuring instruments and vocals, played by the bus driver on the bus's speaker. 
    Noises from the transport and passengers can be heard at various points, including the driver honking at another bus, brakes squeaking, and the bus doors opening to pick up more passengers. The entire performance lasted about 5 minutes, but the recording captures 1 minute and 46 seconds. 
    Recorded in Tlalpan, Mexico by Claire Babbott-Bryan.
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    Holler

    02/06/2026 | 5 mins.
    "In the original field recording, I was drawn to the acoustic space of the vendor's calls, and decided that was enough of a springboard to create a piece. Other than that, I was going in blind with no preconceptions. I began by adding edits of percussion recordings from my archive, some of which were processed. 
    "The piece developed as I added enough elements and it found its form by a process of various edits in the mix, intensive listening and dropping out of the original field recording at certain points as the percussion stood more centre stage, with the field recording weaving in and out in a mixture of interacting acoustic spaces that made sense in terms of good dynamic and structural coherence."
    Chongqing street vendor calls reimagined by Fergus Kelly.
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    Dolomite drone

    02/06/2026 | 7 mins.
    "I was drawn to the recording because the sound of the mowers felt like spring. I enjoyed the noise of the mowers and wanted to work with it. The mowers cut in an out, processed by my modular synth, with a noisy drone in the background from the synth. Some tape noise shows up too. Recorded in Ottawa, May 30 2026 (Drone Day!). Mixed and mastered the next day. Pls wear headphones, there's some funky stereo stuff going on." 
    Strimmers in the Dolomites reimagined by Josh Yazbeck.
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    Arise and walk with thee

    29/05/2026 | 6 mins.
    "It was strange and daunting to select a church service as my starting point, but I was drawn to it. My main focus thematically was on struggle and renewal, and how we try to explain the inexplicable."
    Oslo Domkirke reimagined by Eulipion Corps.
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    A liturgy in Domkirke

    29/05/2026 | 14 mins.
    A liturgy service in Norwegian, taking place in Oslo's Domkirke cathedral, featuring service readings, hymns sung by the congregation and passages of organ playing. This service takes place at 5pm every Friday afternoon. 
    Recorded in September 2025 by Cities and Memory.
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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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