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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 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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Episodes
  • The fog

    The fog
    May 28 2024
    Amphitrite Point Lighthouse in Ucluelet BC on a foggy evening. You can hear the fog horn every 20 seconds. You can also hear a whistle buoy for starboard aid and a bell buoy for port aid. And of course the pacific ocean.

    Recorded by Timo Gormanns.
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    18 mins
  • The Pacific fog ballad of Ucluelet lighthouse

    The Pacific fog ballad of Ucluelet lighthouse
    May 28 2024
    "I wanted to convey the physicality of fog, how it defuses light, blocks and confuses the senses and becomes a thing, a blanket over the senses. Sound travels differently and light is refracted. This is reflected in the original long form field recording with the one constant of the fog horn.

    "I sampled the ambience of the original track and built the sonic ebb and flow ( fog phasing) around this using it as an anchor for the ciat lonbarde wooden synths to play off. Finally I used text to speech to turn weather in formation for the Ucluelet area into a “human” voice also lost in the fog as we learn valuable weather details ( a number station for good rather than covert operations). The track sounds like ships interacting via radio, layers of data building sonic pictures as the soundscape evolves and we are guided away from the rocks…"

    Ucluelet lighthouse reimagined by Andy Billington.
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    11 mins
  • Soho flea market, 1993

    Soho flea market, 1993
    May 28 2024
    New York City's Soho flea market, August 1993.

    Recorded by Ingrid Schulz.
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    1 min
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