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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory
Cities and Memory - remixing the world
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  • Cities and Memory - remixing the world

    Dusk falls

    08/06/2026 | 5 mins.
    The recording begins after rainfall, while water is still moving through the canopy.
    Drips arrive from multiple heights, creating irregular but continuous patterns. Each impact carries a different texture depending on the surface, leaf, soil, understory.
    Bird calls are present but partially absorbed by the density of the environment. 
    Nothing travels cleanly. Everything is filtered, diffused. Movement develops above the microphones: red tailed monkeys crossing through the canopy.
    Their passage is not constant; it comes in fragments, branch tension, leaves shifting, brief vocal signals between individuals.
    Depth is difficult to judge. The forest compresses distance, and sound reflects unpredictably. This is a layered environment. No single element dominates. The recording holds simultaneous activity at different scales, water, insects, birds, primates, all occupying the same space without hierarchy.
    Recorded in Bwindi impenetrable forest, Uganda by Rafael Diogo.
  • Cities and Memory - remixing the world

    Another broken dream (about birds)

    08/06/2026 | 10 mins.
    𓂃 ོ☼𓂃 另一个破碎的梦(关于鸟)𓂃 ོ𓂃
    or "Another Broken Dream (About Birds)" in English
    "The original recording already possessed a magical and evocative quality. Drawn to its atmosphere, I began transforming the material through various forms of audio processing, allowing it to unfold into new sonic environments and fictional landscapes. As the piece evolved, it started to evoke the dark and mysterious imagery that often appears in my dreams about birds.
    "In this work, I was particularly interested in exploring the friction between the organic and the artificial. Layers of noise and synthetic textures are placed alongside the field recording, creating a contrast between the living environment captured in the soundscape and the constructed sonic world that emerges from it.
    "The piece functions as an imagined platform for the sonic universe of Uganda’s Bwindi jungle, a reconfigured space where memory, imagination, and recorded reality converge."
    Bwindi forest soundscape reimagined by Sara Ramírez Márquez.
  • Cities and Memory - remixing the world

    Music under the Moroccan rain

    08/06/2026 | 4 mins.
    It's January, and it's raining in Marrakesh for the first time in many months - that doesn't dampen the enthusiasm of the evening musicians, gathered together in circles to sit under umbrellas, sing, clap and play music into the small hours. It was only 8.00pm when this recording was made, but it already felt like an all-night party. 
    Recorded in Marrakesh, Morocco, January 2026 by Cities and Memory.
  • Cities and Memory - remixing the world

    Alwan echoes

    08/06/2026 | 5 mins.
    "Alwan Echoes takes its name from the Arabic word Alwan, meaning “all the colours.”
    "In this piece I used marranzanu (the Sicilian jaw harp, also known as scaccia pensieri) and flute, creating a bridge between Southern Italy and Morocco: from echoes of Sicilian tarantella rhythms to a melody inspired by Moroccan musical traditions. The field recording from the square of Marrakech, with its percussion, voices, and human presence, became a living soundscape inside the composition, transforming the piece into a dialogue between ritual, travel, and collective memory."
    Jemaa el-Fnaa music in Marrakesh reimagined by Cristina Italiani.
  • Cities and Memory - remixing the world

    The rhythm section's moment to shine

    08/06/2026 | 8 mins.
    Live jazz from one of Paris' top night spots, Le Duc des Lombards - the excellent quartet The Hookup (Geraldine Laurent, Noé Huchard, François and Louis Moutin) play a piece with just the rhythm section, before the whole group joins for a mellow track. 
    Recorded in Paris, France in February 2026 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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