"Invisible Anchor is a downtempo ambient track centred around a seismic field recording of an electricity pylon, this served as the primary background pad. The field recording was tuned to the track's key using Temperance Pro from Eventide and it matched the track length precisely. For the overall character, the master mix was run through Air Music Tech's FlavorPro with a tweaked cassette tape preset to introduce a lo-fi vibe. All music elements originated from Sonic Charge's Synplant II and the Air Music Tech DrumSynth."
Electricity pylon in Wytham Woods, England reimagined by Karhide.
--------
3:43
--------
3:43
Inside an electricity pylon
This is a recording made with a seismic microphone attached to an electricity pylon in the English countryside in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire.
The sounds come from the wind vibrating the entire structure, as captured by this specialist microphone.
Recorded by Cities and Memory.
--------
3:42
--------
3:42
Caruso climbs
"Thinking about the ascent and the vastness of Gran Sasso Park I stretched sounds to hold the sound of the water and this suggested voices so Caruso takes a trip to the park."
Gran Sasso park in Italy reimagined by Stuart Wilding.
--------
4:35
--------
4:35
Yoi Jacon
Living with an isolated Shipibo indigenous family in the Peruvian Amazon, this recording features an ícaro titled "Yoi Jacon" ("another world") by curandera Ronin Mea. The chant speaks of a realm beyond our own, filled with ancient wisdom, amidst the backdrop of a disappearing way of life due to deforestation and modernization.
Recorded by Rafael Diogo.
--------
5:05
--------
5:05
Mountain cowbell chorus
The gentle tinkling of cowbells in a field among the Dolomites at the end of a long summer afternoon.
Recorded in Colmean, Italy by Cities and Memory, June 2025.
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 7,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 130 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
UK