Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Summary: 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 6,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 120 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 http://www.citiesandmemory.com
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Recorded in July 2017 at the pond in my yard. I had just purchased Roland CS-10EM Binaural Microphones and wanted to test them out. I sat on a pier and the frogs did their frog thing. You can really hear the 3D imaging in the recording. Recorded by Tenali Hrenak. Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by Pascal van de Vendel at Unsplash
Recorded by Paul Virostek. "Rain, Tropical, Thailand, Medium Heavy, Thick, Steady, Bird, Active." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by the Bialons on Unsplash
Reimagined by AJ Born. "The rain with the bird was nice but quite short. I added some additional sounds and elongated it to 3 minutes: 1\. Someone, cutting a tree in Hambacher forest with a chain saw (from a youtube video). 2\. Trains at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, 3\. Cars and plains recorded at my parents' garden in Hamburg, 4\. Happy children playing in a backyard where I work. 5\. I added a melody that should sound like a musical box." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by the Bialons on Unsplash
Peruvian rain reimagined by Primitive Acoustics. "The relaxing sounds of rain falling in this recording helped quench my thirsty soul. We have been living in thick smoke from forest fires and drought conditions for the past three months here in southern Oregon. This piece is an expression of the feelings of joy and relief that I imagined we would experience once the rains finally arrived this fall." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by Toby Wong on Unsplash.
Heavy rainfall on leaves in a tropical rainforest, with close-up sound of water dripping into puddles. Recorded in Tambopata Wildlife Reserve, Peru by Richard Ranft / British Library. Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by Toby Wong on Unsplash.
Macedonian frogs reimagined by Joel Graham. "It begins with the original frogs, I used a creaking door sound for the chainsaw guitar, and water drops for the percussion and muck sounds. the voices of the "ghost frog monks" are modified frog sounds from the original (there are no words hidden in the whispers). It ends with modified frog sounds." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
Frogs recorded late at night at Mavrovo lake, artificial lake at Bistra mountain, in Mavrovo national park, Macedonia, by Toni Dimitrov. Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by Suzanne Williams at Unsplash.
Spouting Horn Park reimagined by Philippe Neau: "sea. ocean. water. surf. around the sun. inside the waves. foot on the board. head in the clouds. slide on the waves. waves flow." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
Icelandic storm reimagined by Richard Watts. "If you listen to the original recording on a loop you start to hear different sounds and patterns which was my starting point for this piece. I liked the idea of sounds and phrases being carried on the wind." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by Nicolas J Leclercq on Unsplash
The surf is forced into a underwater lava tube and explodes vertically up to 50 ft. into the air. Spouting Horn Beach Park, HI Spouting Horn Beach Park is a Park in Kauai County, Hawaii. It has an elevation of 102 meters, or 335 feet. Recorded by Joel Graham. Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
Recorded by Buzby - "I sat in an empty shipping container 20 metres from the north Atlantic sea in south Iceland whilst it was totally battered by a 90 mph wind and recorded it." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by Nicolas J Leclercq on Unsplash
Orangutans reimagined by Jake Gaule (Submerged Tapes). "The original recording is of orangutans in Borneo. The calls that they make sounded very aggressive to me so I decided to go down an aggressive route and juxtapose the sounds they were making with some quite intense synthesised sounds. I also made liberal use of pitch shifting and time stretching to distort the vocalisations and chopped up some of the noise to use as percussion/hi-hat type sounds." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
Passo del Lupo reimagined by Sebastian Dumitrescu. "I wanted to create a partly artificial landscape of weather, and it seems that using a real recording works best. The recording of the wind is always present in the piece, and together with it we can also hear some artificial landscapes that are closely controlled using information from the original recording. I thought the original filename (simply describing the content of the recording) was in some way poetic so I decided to keep it as the name of the piece." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
Jungle House reimagined by Qush Abdul (leholyghost) "I’ve always been fascinated with the sounds of nature and for this project, I felt the urge to create sonic entities that has to do with the whole concept of industrialization and a brief statement about the existence of nature in the cycle of life. Currently, I’m working on a collaborative project and it has a similar concept of issues pertaining to the whole existence of beings. I started the track with the sample given, manipulated it with effects triggered in automation to stimulate the industrial sound of work and slowly shift the perspective of being in a jungle, forest or in this case the meadow. The voiceover used is from one of my recordings done back when I was doing my diploma in audio production. It fits nicely with the whole concept of the track on how the existence of nature revolves around the cycle of life. The instruments used are mostly electronic samples and plugins and they are created to represent the sounds of animals or creatures in the “meadow”. It is rather dark and tribalistic as I wanted to create the wildlife’s feelings of unhappiness in this sense." Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
A male orangutan producing a long distance vocalization or long calls under different contexts, Indonesia. Recorded by James Askew. Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature Photo by Jack Cain on Unsplash
