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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"You can hear at the end of the recording the calls of Troglodytes aedon (house wren), with vocalisations of a blue-headed parrot. The recording was made at 6am in the area of Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia." Recorded by Marian Vargas Franco. Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
Recorded by Giovanna Iorio as part of the city sound guide to Chia, Sardinia, Italy.
Recorded by Giovanna Iorio as part of the city sound guide to Chia, Sardinia, Italy.
Recorded by Giovanna Iorio as part of the city sound guide to Chia, Sardinia, Italy.
Recorded by Giovanna Iorio as part of the city sound guide to Chia, Sardinia, Italy.
Recorded by Giovanna Iorio as part of the city sound guide to Chia, Sardinia, Italy.
Recorded by Giovanna Iorio as part of the city sound guide to Chia, Sardinia, Italy.
Recorded by Giovanna Iorio as part of the city sound guide to Chia, Sardinia, Italy.
Recorded by Giovanna Iorio as part of the city sound guide to Chia, Sardinia, Italy.
Recorded by Rafael Diogo as part of the Malaga city sound guide.
Recorded by Rafael Diogo as part of the Malaga city sound guide.
Recorded by Rafael Diogo as part of the Malaga city sound guide.
Recorded by Rafael Diogo as part of the Malaga city sound guide.
Recorded by Rafael Diogo as part of the Malaga city sound guide.
Everything heard within this piece is created from processed audio captured within CERN. I wanted to create a dreamlike version of the type of sounds I imagined CERN might produce if you could hold a contact mic against the ground within the complex - capturing all the sounds of the various experiments and activities going on (some of CERN's experiments are deep underground). Using midi randomisation across the various contact mic recordings, I created a morphing array of the various knocks and clunks produced from CERN machinery. The addition of a grain delay effect on some of this audio feels like it might be a slowed down recording of the numerous particle collisions performed within CERN experiments. In the background, meanwhile, the machines at the antimatter factory continue to chug away. Processed sections of this audio provide the airy pad like sounds, whilst pitched down audio from the Universe of Particles exhibition provide the melodies and voice. Reimagined by Andy Gillham.
