Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Episodes
Goat milking at a rural family farmyard
16 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The jingling of cowbells, the bleating of goats and the whispering voice of the shepherd during milking at a family farmyard in Cercados de Araña, a...
Cercados de Arana (Andy Lyon reimagining)
16 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"My approach was to explore various parts of the recording through the use of destructive looping, granular synthesis and sequencing to create a laye...
Clocks, pigeons, song, automata
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"In the spirit of the original piece I combined it with my recordings of clocks and automata and music boxes, my daughter singing with pigeons, and a...
The future champion
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A recording from Number One Court at the famous Wimbledon tennis championship as Barbora Krecjikova plays against Danielle Collins in a tense match. ...
As the ball bounces
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I composed this piece using guitar and effects pedals plus Ipad instruments to create metaphorical sounds of bouncing, spinning, sliding tennis ball...
Archive of a wander through the Museum of Automata
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An archive of a Wander through the Museum of Automata, Lyon, before its closure in 2022.Among the ticking gears and rehearsed gestures, a choreograph...
Distant songs
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"“Distant Songs” was inspired by the field recording “Archive of a Wander through the Museum of Automata, Lyon” by Florent Picollet. I began ...
The Golden Gate Bridge sings
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The slats in the Golden Gate bridge will resonate at certain wind speeds and directions. the first is a low-pitched + low-frequency tone between 280-...
Golden Gate Bridge sings of madness
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I used the original ethereal recording to run through the entire piece while also finding and recording a few more Golden Gate bridge sounds. These ...
Out of the woods
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"In “Out of the Woods” new and old swirl together. The primary inputs are field recordings from a violin workshop near the river. All of the perc...
The Lech waltz
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"My background as a singer/songwriter often dictates how I start my work, but my affinity for experimental music helps to push my compositions into o...
Spirits of the wild river
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Rushing currents, echoing depths — where the haunting calls of water spirits appear and dissolve like currents in motion."This dramatic, immersive...
Nonatonic analogy, Danube confluence
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"This segment is sort of ambiguous - am I listening to the Lech or to the Danube? Maybe both, or maybe it’s all Danube, and “Lech” is just what...
Sedimental threads
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The inspiration from this piece was firstly at the surface level - flow, time, motion - are all inspiring for musical exploration. As I dug deeper i...
The quiet goodbye
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Living in Scotland and spending time in the Scottish Highlands, it is clear to me how integral water and waterways are to the landscape and existenc...
Flow: Group chat fragments
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"All posts from the Flow project’s WhatsApp group were saved to a text document and numbered as 'segments'."These segments were then recited as spe...
Cuando el cauce recuerda (When the riverbed remembers)
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Cuando el cauce recuerda (When the riverbed remembers) is a piece created for the Flow project, within Cities and Memory, which in this edition focu...
The stony one
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I selected an area of the River Lech within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. I was intrigued by the changing relationship between humans and river, an...
Cross flow
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"For centuries, the river Lech has played an integral part in the city of Augsburg’s water management system, which is part of the UNESCO World Her...
Circle of life
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"生生不息 — translated here as Circle of Life — is one of the most profound concepts in Chinese philosophy, drawn from the I Ching (Yijing or...
Weir
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I have been to Landsberg several times and am referring here to the place in the old town next to the weir. The piece represents the surroundings at...
The river remembers
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I was struck by a paradox in this segment of the river's story. How at the same time, the river here is both so heavily modified - by channelisation...
Lo-fi river flow
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Lo-Fi River Flow reflects the landscape, the people, and the life unfolding along the river’s banks. The listening gradually narrows toward the mo...
Left and right of passage
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"This location of fish passage exhibits an imperfect balance as humans attempt natural processes, and while total success is not possible the effort ...
Flume: a post-cinematic drift for tube, accordion and sine
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Flume investigates the acoustic behaviour of a regulated river segment through a post-cinematic compositional approach. The piece originates from a ...
Echo under concrete
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The field recording and other materials immediately suggested a strong duality: natural flow versus human control. The description of a river heavil...
Clochi-clocha
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"For this sound piece, I did not have any recordings of water, only ambient sounds from a café and the bells from the square. I modified certain ele...
Lechlechtz
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Listening to the field recording and reading about it immediately evoked associations with the sound of movement, electricity, power plants, moraine...
Sink, surface
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"At this segment of the Lech, the river has left its Alpine origins – its wild and icy rapids are just a memory. Data suggest that the Lech is “h...
Epfach round: andere Zeiten, andere Landschaft
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Gregory Scheckler’s composition for Flow draws from field recordings at Epfach, where the Lech River bends beside the village. The recording’s d...
Gravel from a field to water through a town
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The combination of the church bells and textural water currents exhibited the relationship to the river from the community, building close to the ri...
Idylle am Stausee
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"My process was pretty straightforward. I studied the photos and data of the river, attempting to get a handle on some of the terminology, history, a...
Have you ever seen a swan?
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"This is an eco-poetic/mythic piece, a kind of swan song. Named after a line in the film IO, where, in a toxic environment, in a post apocalyptic tim...
David's promenade
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The river inspired the piece as a dreamlike walk. This composition focuses on birds as the first carriers of musical entities. The sound is shaped i...
Litzau loops
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Viewed from above, on maps and in satellite imagery, Litzauer Schleife (‘Litzau Loop’) appears as a gracefully looping meander. Sonically, on th...
Entrophony
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Entrophony — fusing 'entropy' with '-phony' (sound) — transforms a hydropower plant's acoustic signature into a meditation on energy dissipation...
In the arms of weirs
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The field recording and the satellite timelapse I chose speak of hydro-power, energy and discontinuity, they tell the story of a voice fragmented, a...
Submerged
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Submerged is a music piece that focuses on the perspective of living organisms in Forggensee Reservoir. The work incorporates field recordings captu...
49minLech
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"After reading about the Lech and looking at the images, my first impulse was to change or add nothing - just let the sound be - like it is... It too...
Tukan
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Some years ago, when we were still living in Poland, my partner and I drove to Füssen to collect a second-hand canoe that we had found online. Its ...
Until the fall
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Assigned the section of the Lech that crosses from Austria into Germany, I decided to travel to the area (near the city of Füssen) to listen to the...
Segment no.9
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"In composing Segment No. 9 for the Flow project, I explored how to translate the satellite imagery into sound and blend it with the provided field r...
Braided memory (Lech)
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I approached the River Lech as a memory machine: wide air and landscape, close water detail, and the river’s vibrations. These hidden resonances b...
Washing away our ragged lives
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"A data sonification of the Lech River - the river as score"A river does not compose. It erodes, carries, deposits. Over centuries it traces a shape ...
Figures
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"A crowded procession of singular figures, images and imaginaries, possible futures "“Figures” is built upon a field recording of a threshold zo...
Rupuma
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"What stood out for me in the data about the segment as well as in the sounds themselves, were two things: (1) the fact that the river was channelize...
Aufpassen
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Upon first hearing the field recording, I struggled to locate the river in it — to connect the sound with the Lech’s path from alpine source to ...
A sense of place
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"For the Flow project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the University of Padova, and the University of Würzburg, I composed an original p...
Crossing over
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"A bridge suspended, a crossing over point. I decided to keep the idea of the river Lech as an abstraction. I live on the other side of the world so ...
Strands/textures
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"In “Strands/Textures”, I weave together the field recording (as the main strand), with other strands of sounds inspired by the descriptive phras...
Lech bop
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"When choosing our sources of inspiration, we allowed ourselves to focus exclusively on the sound of the river. We deliberately chose a very active t...
The rewilding melody
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"For the beautiful Section 4 of Flow, I wanted to celebrate the rewilding projects that took place between 2016 and 2022 under the LIFE Lech “Dynam...
Hope carries us
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hope Carries Us | The moment I heard the section of the Lech that I ended up working with, I heard these beautiful overtones, and voices and decided ...
Confluencia lejana
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"To create this piece, I used the completely raw recording of segment 3. Then, I cut a few seconds from it and layered them, processing them with dif...
Kaliwatu
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I used the data and story of the river section to structure my composition and build a narrative of the river's evolution through time. The composit...
The river reflects our lives
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I was allocated a more traditional river recording of serene, meandering river (with agricultural sounds). This was the final “section” availabl...
Warth
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"At the source of the Lech River near Warth, water and machinery sound together."This piece grows from a field recording made close to the river, whe...
The Lech and the Danube
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We followed the Lech for its entire length, watching it change through different phases. Here we witness its latest step, as it joins the Danube in i...
The river Lech in Augsburg
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The city of Augsburg is crossed by 29 canals, which contributed to its textile industry in the 19th century. Now its lively city centre combines stun...
Rain on the river Lech
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The river runs its last few kilometres, going through a stretch of forest and one more dam. This sound is the river Lech's quiet goodbye.Recorded by ...
Mandichosee
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Reservoirs are artificial: they only exist because there's a dam to control the flow of the river. But most of them turn out to be hosting pristine n...
Litzauer Schleife
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After driving along a dirt road marked by a "verboten" sign - thanks Google Maps! - we reach the last true natural part of the river Lech, before it ...
Epfach
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
| We stopped in Epfach for lunch, and visited one of the many fish passages built around dams. It's noon, and the nearby church chimes to perfectly...
Landsberg
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our arrival in Landsberg is met with four enormous steps over which the Lech flows, so loud and powerful my microphone could not handle it. I decide ...
Lech old power station
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As we leave the city of Augsburg, the river can take its space again, inviting people on its banks to enjoy some leisure time. Here the river snakes ...
Stadtwald Augsburg
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Augsburg Stadtpark is an enormous green area just south of the city of Augsburg. The calm waters of the canals criss-crossing the park are accomp...
Scheuring
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The fish passage on this dam isn't particularly spectacular, it's a channel carved into the concrete under the road, but I found it particularly symb...
Forggensee
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
| Of the many reservoirs along the Lech, Forggensee is the largest. In summer it can get very busy, and the cruise boats are a controversial topic....
Dornstetten
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
During our trip along the Lech we stopped, I believe, at every Wasserkraftwerk along the way. Each of them had something particular, either to the ey...
Hohenfurch
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hiding between dense forest, in a narrow stretch of valley, we find a reservoir that looked like a secret, secluded place. One man unmoors his boat a...
Geigenbauer
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Füssen, a beautiful town nestled along the Lech, is famous for its proximity to the Neuschweinstein castle. What most of the tourists don't know is ...
Staumauer Lech
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Of the many hydropower stations we found along the way this is the most impressive. Behind the enormous building towering over the Lech waters, a Y-s...
Forest Experience Centre Ziegelwies
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
| On the border between Austria and Germany, a forest centre dominates the riverine landscape with its treetop walk. With this recording we're walk...
Stanzach
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Here the Lech creates stunning heart-shapes, only visible from high up. This is called string of pearls, and here the river takes its space and its t...
Hoefen
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While the first part of the river has been mostly pastoral, further down its course the water is also used for heavy industry, and this is the first ...
Forchach hanging bridge
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The hanging bridge is a stunning construction overarching the string of pearls. People love walking across it, and cycling too (even if it's forbidde...
Nikolausbruecke
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Wooden bridges are a common sight in this area, where the river is still narrow enough for this type of structure. Over this one a conspiracy of rave...
Ulrichsbruecke
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
| Looking for Ulrichsbrücke we got lost and ended up in an enormous, sci-fi looking gravel factory. This is where the gravel dug up from the river...
Wasserkraftwerk Hoefen
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As the mountains start to give way to the plains, the human impact gets more visible. The river goes through several Wasserkraftwerk - hydropower sta...
Dumau
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Without any tourists in sight, water and birds are all you can hear in the valley where the Lech gradually grows from a mountain stream to a large ri...
Naturpark Tiroler Lech
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
| As we move down the Lech valley, the river grows, collecting water from the streams it finds along its way. Under this specific bridge the water ...
Warth
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The first section of the Lech is as close as possible to the idea of an alpine paradise: ice-cold waters running through bright green meadows and dar...
Life glitches
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cities and Memory:"Through the golden evening sunshine, this local market closing down for the evening was tinged with a certain feeling of sweet mel...
Oldenburg market in the golden hour
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The local market in Oldenburg, Germany closing down for the day at 6pm on a golden, sunny evening. with stalls closing up and the chatter of stallhol...
Birds sing on a summer evening in Yakutsk
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded this sound on the balcony at home. At the very beginning you can hear the sound of my cat named “Count”. The sky was lit up by sunset,...
June drizzle at dawn: a chorus of woodpecker drumming
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This recording captures a rare early-morning moment on Mt. Nokogiri in June, where multiple Grey-headed woodpeckers drum simultaneously, their distin...
Bird in the soup
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Yakutsk looks like it's in the middle of nowhere so I wanted the piece to reflect a journey there. I also wanted the original recording to feel like...
Chiba
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The recording inspired me by setting me into a more landscape and nature sort of environment. But also being from a place which is a big city, I use...
A magnified moment of attention
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As one of the world's most famous sacred spaces, Notre Dame in Paris has a very particular effect even on the non-religious, perhaps close to Stendha...
Notre Dambient
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A full walkthrough of the restored Notre Dame, with the drone of thousands of tourists, the clattering of machines dispensing memorial coin tokens, a...
Earth Horns with Electric Drone
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Earth Horns with Electric Drone" (1974), a piece by Yoshi Wada, recorded at the Minimalism exhibition at the Bourse du Commerce, Paris in December 2...
Untold story of the drone
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"'Untold Story of the Drone' is my reimagined sound of Yoshi Wada’s piece Earth Horns with Electric Drone. The original sound was recorded at the M...
Train car, Auschwitz Birkenau
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ambisonics recording at a freight train car in Auschwitz used to deport people to the extermination camp. This soundscape-composition is part of the...
Desespectral A.
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The location where the recording I worked with was made, carries an overwhelmingly historical weight. "Attempting something evocative, reminiscent,...
Da'ira
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I worked on just one device just sampling and looping for this project, a sort of going back to basics. Da'ira means circle, orbit, or wholeness / u...
Isha call to prayer, Jemaa el-Fnaa
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Isha call to prayer at 8pm on a windy, rainy evening in the famous, busy Jemaa el-Fnaa square. Recorded in Marrakesh, Morocco, January 2026 by Citie...
El Cabanyal
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"No matter where in the world you are by the sea, the language of water is on the one hand the same everywhere, and on the other hand has a clear reg...
Mediterranean Sea at the Platja del Cabanyal
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I arrived in Valencia one day before the conference I was attending, so I decided to record some calming sounds of the sea, waves and the general bea...
Practice
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The idea was to create a piece that worked with the violin so I started by isolating the tonal layer in Spectral Layers. This gave me multiple layer...
Violin practice inside La Fenice
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Inside the world-famous La Fenice theatre in Venice, we visit the opulent, breathtaking main auditorium, when a single violinist comes onto the stage...