Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Episodes
Mapalecolumbian
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Taking the original background noise of a Columbian protest and treating it like a drone, but adding reverb and delay on certain higher pitched soun...
Chapinero Alto protest
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Binaural recording of a protest in Bogotá Colombia from my porch. Birds, traffic, protest. Recorded by Seth Power.
The aftermath of the fish market
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Rialto fish market in Venice is an incredible piece of history, dating back to the 1200s. Sometimes when you're in Venice, it feels like little h...
Unfamiliar states
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The sample of the workmen shovelling the ice to cleanup the market space has this rich, raw, physical and rhythmic texture, and an overall flow from ...
Follow the sun
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I began writing this song on the spring equinox, so it felt natural to follow the sun.While writing it, I kept thinking about the whole cycle: win...
Live from Le Duc de Lombards
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Live jazz from one of Paris' top night spots, Le Duc des Lombards - the excellent quartet The Hookup (Geraldine Laurent, Noé Huchard, François and ...
Maghrib call to prayer, Koutoubia mosque
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The maghrib call to prayer at 6.45pm from the biggest mosque in Marrakesh, the towering Koutoubia mosque. Recorded in Marrakesh, Morocco, January 20...
Drummerrssss by Gilad Ratman, Jewish Museum
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
|Drummerrss "connects two operating systems: the idea of land, territory and borders, rooted in the ground, and the idea of a spiritual belief system...
For patience joins time to eternity
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"My composition for the Cities & Memory Spring Project, For Patience Joins Time to Eternity, draws on a field recording of the Maghrib call to pr...
As above, so below
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I really liked the reverb of the recording. Hearing the echos of the space and the sound of footsteps as people took in the performance was special....
Aegean waves
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A recording of lapping waves from Serifos island, Faros, Greece, by Agapi Zita.
We have an emergency in the building
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Attention please! Attention please! The sound of the emergency alarm being tested in an empty shopping centre - shades of post-apocalyptic movies or ...
The organic blur
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"By filtering the waves to focus on the deep, rhythmic pulse of the water, I’ve made out a space for the ethereal pad.Its a place where the digital...
The three S's
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"he Westgate shopping centre is deserted and subject to an unknown threat that must be dealt with by: seeing, saying and sorting. There is the tickin...
Relaxing ocean
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"In this piece I created an ambient soundscape on top of the initial recording this was to add to the relaxation of the waves slowly crashing against...
A passage to Bamiyan
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I composed this piece imagining the observational or listening perspective of the field recordist Anders Vinjar in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan...
Buddha Shah Mama
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Peaceful ambient sound from the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan, post 45 years of war in Afghanistan. Recordings from top of inside Buddha Shah-Mama, w...
Relaxing night forest
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"In this piece I wanted to make an ambient soundscape layering different textures on top of the recording. To make a composition the listener can jus...
A vastness as a neighbour came
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This beautiful recording of nocturnal crickets in Ghana opened up the night to me - I wanted to create a piece that had something of the warmth of a ...
Nocturnal cricket chorus, Ghana
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Faint cricket chorus at night, Ghana. Subtle night activity of crickets in a suburban community in Ghana. Human movements, voices, autos and texture...
Losing the beat
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The core of this reimagining lies in the steam engine’s rhythmic inconsistency. I wrote this piece after listening to the sounds of an uneven, mec...
Stationary steam engines
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Stationary steam Eegines at the Coleford Festival of Transport. The stationary steam engines at the Coleford Festival of Transport always attract att...
A Century of Sounds live - conversation panel 2, 27 February 2026
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Artists in conversation with the Pitt Rivers Museum curatorial team at the Century of Sounds launch event in Oxford on 27 February 2026. Featuring: ...
A Century of Sounds live - conversation panel 1, 27 February 2026
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Artists in conversation with the Pitt Rivers Museum curatorial team at the Century of Sounds launch event in Oxford on 27 February 2026. Featuring: ...
A Century of Sounds on Battiti, Rai Radio 3, February 2026
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Century of Sounds feature on the Battiti show on Rai Radio 3 in Italy, broadcast on 26 February 2026. Featuring:- Drawn to the circle by Ana Habes...
We sing together
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When I first heard this recording of men gathered around a guitar, singing fragments of traditional songs and inventing lyrics on the spot, with wome...
Nothing changes (a begging I will go)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is built around a field recording from the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum of Berber beggars singing for charity.Listening to ...
Sapeh (three-stringed boat lute)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Sapeh (type of three-stringed boat lute) being played": the instrument was recorded in Sarawak by collector Leslie Bennett.From the sound collection...
Beggars singing for charity
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of Berber (Ait Ha...
Afternoon beneath a palm shelter
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of cassette tape and digital audio tape rec...
To the land of the hornbills
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I listened to the piece and researched any historical links between Plymouth, my home town and Sarawak, were the original recording by Leslie Bennet ...
The rainforest
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The field recording that inspired this composition features a Bayaka musician playing the geedal, an instrument whose sound is deeply connected to th...
Duet for conch shell and synthesisers
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The recording I worked with was pure beauty. A simple, pure sound of a conch shell being played - according to my further research, these conches can...
Mwana wevhu
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This project is inspired by a 1958 field recording of a Bamum girl singing a religious song in Fumban, West Region, Cameroon, recorded by Lois Mitchs...
Balonyona playing the geedal (bow harp)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of cassette tape and digital audio tape re...
Natar (song) on conch and musket
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Natar (song) with Markany Lei on conch and Wani on musket.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a la...
Bamum girl singing religious song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of songs and musi...
Drawn to the circle
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Drawn to the Circle began with a field recording of a boar tusk horn calling people into a full circle. The sound comes from Malekula Island in Vanua...
Broken
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When I first heard "Mekana discussing a case of adultery", I really wanted to know more about the background to the recording. My research led me a t...
The hills remember
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“The Hills Remember” is a concept piece on the “domination paradigm” — a cultural logic shared across systems of oppression. The work explo...
Sound weaver's incantation (for capturing and preserving the sounds of life)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I selected the recording of a night forest in the Central African Republic without looking at the description, simply because it sounded magical. I u...
Talea
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A talea is both faithful and transformed. It remains genetically identical to the source, yet grows into something new through a different environmen...
Likimbi forest camp late at night
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of cassette tape and digital audio tape rec...
For the sun
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Researching this sound and the U’wa people gave me an opportunity to scratch the surface of their deeply complex seasonal customs, involving dance,...
Geedal in the forest with male voices
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Geedal (bow harp) played in the forest with male voices accompanying.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, bein...
Lozorüü - Angami Naga love song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Lozorüü" (tune: "Hoiyi Olle"): an Angami Naga love song performed by two men and two young women ("Though the villages are separated the herds gra...
Mekana discussing a case of adultery
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Spoken word recording of Mekana discussing a case of adultery.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from ...
Merer Pake: nDavu trumpet signal
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Merer Pake": an nDavu trumpet signal for a full circle tusked boar.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being...
U'wa drones
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U'wa drones from the Andes in north-east Colombia.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection...
A Vanuata hymn
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I heard the piece, which is a Vanuata hymn called 'You say you no want ’im married long me,' and connected with it immediately. Despite not knowing...
On the tide
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I haven’t sung professionally in over 21 years and had long stopped writing and recording music. I am trying to return to it but these things are e...
Narel
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The song "Narel" made me think about the power of separate and unique voices working together. The name Narel in Hebrew also mean "singing". I was in...
Narel (song)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Narel (song) performed by Peter, Sali and Mal Sekini.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large c...
"You say you no want 'im married long me"
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"You say you no want 'im married long me" (song performed by men, women and children).From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Universit...
Woman singing with harmonium
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of cassette tape recordings of songs and instrume...
Int. exteriors (day)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The field recording that I worked with was a wax cylinder recording of a Zande funeral song. One of the things that really struck me when I first lis...
Forever lost
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I saw this recording before I heard it. At the Pitt Rivers Museum at the start of the project. The physical object: an original Edison wax phonograph...
We dance, we dream, we love (for Timon Beri)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This has been the most difficult piece I have ever written for Cities and Memory. What could I add to a recording made by Patti Langton of a young Mo...
Zande funeral song for a woman
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of Zande songs, dances...
Ishi no ghi sholu: agricultural work song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Ishi no ghi sholu": an agricultural work song performed by a group of Sümi Naga male singers.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, ...
Sanza (lamellophone) music
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sanza (lamellophone) music performed by young Moru man Timon Beri.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being f...
The land is our mother
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Land is Our Mother is based on a collection of field recordings of digeridoos made for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies from the ar...
How I learnt to live with ghosts
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I chose this recording - an orchestral Korean recording from Seoul, 1972 - after initially earmarking another sound, but this one spoke to me with it...
Nip nap
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The sound that I was allocated for this track was described as a Zande drinking song, from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of Zande songs, da...
Didgeridoo music
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Didgeridoo music": collection of didgeridoo recordings prepared by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (now the Australian Institute of...
Instrumentals featuring the hyang piri and hojok
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Korea: three instrumental pieces of music, featuring the hyang piri (double-reed wind instrument or oboe) and hojok (double-reed wind instrument, als...
Bayaka women singing yeyi in the forest
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bayaka women singing yeyi (polyphonic song) in the forest.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a la...
V4-4
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This track is based on the recording of Metimbo of the Aka tribe in the Central African Republic playing the Bubulu (Potbowl). I chose this recording...
Yeyi
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hearing the vocal music of the BaAka for the first time was a powerful, emotional experience for me. This led me to explore some of the other sounds ...
Zande drinking song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of Zande songs, dances...
Women singing
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel recordings of music and spoken la...
Kinnaur calling
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Created in collaboration with Kinnauri filmmaker Himanshu Negi Regesoi, this piece is a meeting of old and new, bringing a sonic archive to life from...
Metimbo playing the bubulu (pot bow)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of cassette tape and digital audio tape rec...
Bayang song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This was one of the more difficult pieces I’ve worked on, although it was enjoyable working through the process. I struggled quite a bit at the beg...
Sea level rise
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I ended up listening to this recording a lot in my everyday life, just putting it on and going to work, walking around the city I live in, in idle mo...
All people are people
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My chosen sound was a sample of a geedal (bow harp) being played in the forest with accompanying male voices, recorded in Dzanga-Sangha Special Reser...
Bayang men's songs
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of songs and musi...
Geedal (bow harp) played in the forest
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Geedal (bow harp) played in the forest with male voices accompanying.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, bein...
Drumming at Wor Tamat dancing ground
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of music an...
To see and remember
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"To See and Remember" is a composition incorporating elements from a 1965 expedition field recording from the Chocó Department, in Colombia, by Jona...
Bhoot
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I originally chose the field recording simply because I enjoyed the melody. The women sang the same melodic phrase over and over with slight changes....
The forest of spirit
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I listened to the first 20 seconds of the track, heard the hummed murmur of a Ba'aka voice and thought, "I can work with that." It wasn’t until the...
Bayaka voices in the forest at dawn
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of cassette tape and digital audio tape rec...
Chocó flute and drum music with rattle
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of Chocó music a...
Women singing with flute
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel recordings of music and spoken la...
The weave of a song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The field recording I chose is of a gentleman named Thomas Penniman performing an early 20th-century work song about weaving from the Gower Peninsula...
Stone sound
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The original field recording was fed into a granular sculpting sampler to create bell like arpeggiated lines. Next, I chopped the field recording to ...
Silenced soil
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Silenced Soil begins with a fragile artefact: a recording of Claude Debussy’s Sarabande, composed in 1894 and revised in 1901, then recorded on 11 ...
Weaving song from the Gower Peninsula
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Weaving song from the Gower Peninsula of South Wales, recited by Thomas Penniman, former Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, who was preparing a manus...
Women and grinding stones
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Women singing and using grinding stones for musical accompaniment.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being f...
Piano being played
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Piano being played": recording of the second movement ('Sarabande') of solo piano suite 'Pour le piano' (L.95) by French composer Claude Debussy, pe...
Distant
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is built around a short fragment of an Igbo wind instrument recording taken from the Pitt Rivers Museum sound collections. The original re...
Igbo wind instrument
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of songs and spoken la...
My rubber dinghy
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The inspiration for this piece was the current climate and attitudes from a section of the population towards immigration. It is unsettling to see th...
Bamum zither player
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of songs and musi...
YAZ
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
YAZ is a vocal and electroacoustic composition built from a field recording of an Aït Haddidou market in Rabat, captured in 1961. What struck me imm...
Market sounds, Morocco
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of Berber (Ait Ha...
Men singing, with percussion and violin
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of cassette tape recordings of songs and instrume...
Airwaves unfolded
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Airwaves Unfolded is a piece based on a radio recording produced in the 1960s in Tarija, southern Bolivia, by Radio Universidad de Tarija. The progra...
Bolivian radio programme on folk music
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Bolivian radio programme on folk music": a recording of folk music from southern Bolivia issued by Radio Universidad de Tarija, with commentary (in ...