Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Chimes revisited

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"My first ever Cities and Memory track was a response to a very similar recording; that one, too, featured chimes. For that first track I re-sequenced...

The Untuned Bell

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Untuned Bell sound installation in Radhusplassen in Oslo. This 1.4-ton bell (anno 1949) was removed from the bell tower of Oslo City Hall because ...

Chaffinches in McCaig's Tower

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In McCaig's Tower, overlooking the bustling harbour town of Oban, finches call out from all sides as we walk around the inside of the tower walls, whi...

Look out

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The piece takes its cue from McCaig’s Tower in Oban, Scotland—not as an architectural curiosity, but as an acoustic world. It begins and ends wit...

The company of others

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"In approaching the project I was struck by the evocative and ethereal quality of the original recording, in particular the call to prayer, and have t...

Call to prayer at the floating village

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A call to prayer at the Bang Phat floating village in Thailand, known for its "floating" houses on stilts and a simple fishing community. Recorded by...

Cuckoos

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I used the cuckoos as a backdrop for a story about death in the forest, of disappearing back into the earth and how that would feel. I wanted it to s...

Cuckoos at dawn

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A soundscape of a particularly misty morning, recorded at 4.12am during late spring from the observing window of the Tomintoul Bird Hide. The hide sit...

Beneath the swell, she echoes

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Beneath the swell, she echoes emerged from Marcelo Carneiro’s evocative field recording of the Iemanjá Day celebration—its textures, rhythms, an...

Praia Vermelha 01

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first edition of a recording I've made in the 2024 summer afternoon at the beach. It was made at Praia Vermelha (Red Beach), Urca, Rio de ...

Some distance from the city

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The sound of a train in the distance on a quiet beautiful morning makes me think of possibility and freedom. But I was thinking about how others may ...

Early morning, Savannah Garden City

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s early morning in what seems to be a quiet suburb of Georgia. People are still asleep, but you the rumble of industry never stops, cars flying d...

I found the presence

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This piece struck me because of the background drone of echoed speech and mechanical sounds with some melodic content (possibly an elevator chime, si...

Reverb in the Rathause

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A soundwalk around the heavily-reverbed impressive interior of Hannover's Neues Rathaus. Huge, reverby echo caused by the voices and footsteps of just...

Skye waves / Midnight mariner

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Scotland has always had a strong pull on my imagination and I've always wanted to visit. This sound file was my first choice from the many offered by...

Chirping into daylight

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A dawn soundscape in the heart of Vietnam’s lowland forest, where the awakening of countless birds marks the start of a new day. The air fills with ...

Vienna drum and bass on a bike (liquid pedal remix)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"For this remix, I pulled out the most musical fragments of the original, like the bicycle bells, and turned them into looping motifs, then built an e...

Drum and bass on the bike

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the recording I made by complete accident - we were coming back home with my girlfriend and when we came out of the metro station we heard lou...

Brooklyn carousel

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a brief recording in May 2022 of the music from Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn, NY. I was just looking up the history of the Merry-Go-Round, whic...

Jane underwater

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Resampled bit of carousel from my former home of Brooklyn gets a new life as this plaintive melody." Carousel in Brooklyn, New York reimagined by An...

The March of Light

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The March of Light 2025 (Ukraine Support Demonstration in Vienna)  This recording illustrates one of the crucial parts of the March of Light demonst...

Transmissie

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The original field recording captures a street choir singing hymns. I transformed this material by processing it into dense, evolving layers of sound...

Vietnam

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The bird sounds of this recording have a particular cadence and repetition. It inspired me to create something that was more solid and continuous to ...

Dripping water inside a sea cave

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Inside a sea cave on a Cornish beach, recording dripping waves on different surfaces and at different distances, onto rock, into small puddles and dir...

Cicadas and katydids singing

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cicadas and katydids singing in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, 9 Aug 2013. This is a recording of the intense sounds of cicadas and katydids singing in...

Aquatic reverberations from Cornwall to SoCal

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Salt water reverberations and soundscapes are a daily and necessary embodied element of my life by and on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, Souther...

An intense calling

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"For this year’s Autumn Project, I was excited to have the opportunity to work with a sample collected near my original home.  "“An Intense Call...

Autumn drums

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"As soon as I heard the drum recording, I wanted to do something with it in the spirit of break chopping/dj tools. I love lots of 70s/80s/early 90s st...

Magic hour at the Fairy Pools

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Possibly the most visited spot on Skye are the Fairy Pools, a long chain of pools and small waterfalls coming down from the mountains - a truly stunni...

Ever Is Over All by Pipilotti Rist

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A video installation called "Ever Is Over All" by Pipilotti Rist (1997), at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin - haunting music loops over and over, w...

Diana memorial fountain

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An extract from a soundwalk around this water feature in Hyde Park, London. It’s an oval granite channel measuring between 6 and 10 meters wide, and...

Changti Street night market, Wuhan

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wuhan’s night markets are famously vibrant, but Changti Street’s night market recording was chosen for its contrast with the afternoon one, highli...

Under the night market

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This field recording put me in mind of the anxiety and sensory overload one can experience in crowded public spaces like the night market the origina...

Lost in frequency

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

'Since moving to London, I have been continuously tuning myself to the frequency of this city. "Melodies generated by four automatic systems based on...

Never is ever over

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Field recording of Pipilotti Rist's "Ever Is Over" performance piece deconstructed via various granular processes." Video installation from Neue Nat...

Subliminish

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This piece was made from a selection of time-stretched samples of gaps between the rushing water in the original field recording, layered and manipul...

Sacred meetings

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

" Boscastle, such a beautiful magical place, set in a deep valley carved out by the river, with jagged cliffs covered in emerald & drifts of Sea P...

Waves on the jetty

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Light waves breaking on a stone boat jetty in the very small one-boat Boscastle harbour in Cornwall on a sunny August afternoon. Recorded by Cities a...

Cascade of autumn

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This composition is built from a field recording of a waterfall in the Lake District by Rob Parton. The waterfall has a broad spectrum of frequencies...

Where?

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The original source sound for this piece was from a bat echolocation detection device. So in this sonic interpretation, I aimed to create the feeling...

Donkey stone

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was drawn to the call of the Rag and Bone man, and I thought of the man himself, beyond the call - and imagined my own best beloved Great Grandmoth...

Tug of war at the palio games

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Annual "palio" games are common across Italy, in which the town divides itself up into different quarters, which then compete in a series of games ove...

Radiative feedback

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"|Using SpectralLayers, I isolated the background noise and PA voice into distinct layers that were shortened and pitch-shifted with various effects t...

Rag and bone man in an English village

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every now and then a Rag ‘n' Bone man (scrap metal man) drives his van round my village in the Forest of Dean picking up scrap metal. It has been di...

The beep of the bat detector

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The sounds of a bat detector converting bat echolocation calls into audible frequencies on a bat behaviour/nesting site survey in Oxfordshire.  Reco...

Yuncao Old Street, Wuhu

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Finding a spot in Wuhu’s city center that fit this recording project’s theme was nearly impossible, but a sentimental taxi driver pointed me to Yu...

Mountain waters in the Lake District

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mountain Waters captures the sound of water flowing along the Stickle Tarn trail in the Lake District, near Stickle Tarn at the heart of the Langdale ...

Protest outside SOAS, London

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Protest outside SOAS in support of Haya Adam - 26th September 2025. A Palestine-related protest outside SOAS, UoL, Bloomsbury, London. Haya Adam is a ...

Camps Bay street dancers

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A recording capturing the energised nature of Cape Town, complicated by the historic struggles that have defined the country. This was an autumn day, ...

A summer morning in the rice fields

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded on a summer morning in the middle of a beautiful rice field stretching as far as the eye can see. It felt like a magnificent sound installati...

Pulsating

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This piece emerged kind of organically out of itself. It was rather hard to start to manipulate the original recording of Digimonk, because it was so...

No peace

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The heavy drumming and urgent voices in the recording immediately captured my attention. Following the rhythm of the recorded percussion I built soun...

Cape Town feast

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The music, rhythms, sounds from Cape Town have inspired many of us for long now. In this piece one can sense that layering of the rich fabric of the ...

Yugen

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This sonic composition, titled Yūgen (幽玄), delves into the aesthetic of subtle beauty and the profound mystery that defines this Japanese concep...

Sunday market in Molenbeek

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Step into the vibrant streets of Molenbeek, Belgium on a Sunday morning, where the sounds of the bustling market come alive. This immersive sound walk...

Nanjing, Sanqiba Lane

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This curiously named lane, marked by a stone archway, hosts an open-air market hemmed in by tall, dense residential buildings. Mobile vendors, traditi...

Tranquil afternoon by the water in Sa Pa

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

High in the misty mountains of northern Vietnam, the sound of water guides you to serenity. A gentle, steady stream cascades from the Love Waterfall a...

Bawlmer Penn

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a simple field recording of passenger hubbub and train announcements at Baltimore Penn Station which was constructed in 1911. They have recent...

Belen's tears

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the Belén neighborhood of Iquitos, Peru, extreme poverty prevails. Residents live in wooden stilt houses along the Amazon River, vulnerable to flo...

The seagulls of Lofoten

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Å village is full of seagulls - they never stop talking and singing! Recorded in Lofoten, Norway by Agapi Zita.

The wedding begins

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Walking through the Grønland district in Oslo, a pealing of bells starts up from a nearby church to mark the beginning of a wedding starting inside. ...

Athens in turmoil, again

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We can hear the protest chants of thousands of protesters in central Athens, calling for an investigation into the deaths of Greek citizens in a train...

A peaceful morning in Buergerpark

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A peaceful Monday morning in Bremen's Buergerpark, with plentiful birdsong, and the occasional jogger and cyclist passing us on a sunny May morning. ...

Suzhou, Guanqian Park

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Parks draw elderly crowds, each with unique soundscapes shaped by distinct groups, hard to discover without local insight. This recording was a lucky ...

Livestock in a village in Liangshan mountains

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jiwei Cun is a small village in Liangshan Mountains of Sichuan province, China. They are Yi nationality. The local people have pigs, cows and chickens...

The Jiaotong teahouse

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Teahouses were once hubs of socializing, business, and leisure in towns along the Yangtze, akin to British pubs or Shanghai’s 1990s eateries. At Jia...

This stream runs all the way to the ocean

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

" Although sampled, processed, arranged then processed,reprocessed and arranged again, the sound of the stream still persists." Sa Pa, Vietnam water ...

Jiaotong

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The people in the teahouse were a focal point for my approach to reimagining this sound, I listened to the cadence and rhythm of conversations and cl...

Sedimentos que flotan (floating sediments)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Floating Sediments is a work that uses sounds from a market in Iquitos, Peru. The voices of vendors and customers, fragments of music, and everyday m...

Molenbeek minute

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The original field recording by Colin Hunter is a layered feast of distinctive sounds - bells ringing, unusual whistles, vendors shouting short phras...

Sanqiba alley ambience

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The sounds of Sanqiba Alley in Nanjing reminded me of living in Nanjing several years ago, and the sense of the history of this place and its people ...

Catheed

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

" used the prominent sound of the bells to explore polyrhythms and basic sound effects such as pitch and timing alteration, and reversing. I structure...

Some people believe birds are alien drones

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I like to push myself beyond my comfort zones so as an exercise in avoiding my biases I asked Stuart to choose a sound for me. It's almost as if he k...

In the belly of the beast

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was inspired by the guttural sounds of the animals roaring. I decided to investigate the detail of these by slowing the material down. I then layer...

In the park

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"While listening to this composition I am imagining walking mindfully through a park and feeling centred and contemplative. I used the whole field rec...

Attention please, listen to autumn

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Starting with a recording from Baltimore airport, I created a contrast between nature and the urban environment. My goal is to highlight how we have ...

Cacophony

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"In protests many voices join together, sounding to create a powerful opposition, echoing through physical and mental spaces. This piece recalls mass ...

Suzhou's cat

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I liked that the original file showcased people enjoying their leisure time playing games and talking freely while the world went on by. I found it r...

Black milk

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This composition is based on an ambisonic recording made inside the Sauna at Auschwitz. This was the ‘bathhouse’ where new arrivals from the trai...

Sauna, Auschwitz

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ambisonics recordings of the acoustics inside the "Sauna" in Auschwitz, where the prisoners were disinfected, shaved, stripped of their clothes and th...

Among the Oldenburg ultras

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At VFB Oldenburg vs. Luebeck, 9 May 2025 (final score: 0-2). An impressively large section of ultras for a small club in Germany's fourth division, ma...

The Oldenburg ultras choir

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I asked for a random field recording to let chance guide my ear. What arrived resonated: unmistakably urban, shaped by the pulse of a collective ritu...

Duality

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Duality draws from the resonant tolling of church bells. The work explores how a single sound can hold opposing states—deep yet relaxing, weighty y...

1 o'clock at Buergermeister-Smidt-Gedaechtniskirche

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Church bells ring for 1pm at the Buergermeister-Smidt-Gedaechtniskirche, Bremerhaven, Germany, as police sirens sound in the background. Recorded in ...

Hakkeijima Island underwater

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Underwater sounds, the sound of waves on the sea, the vibration of wires to prevent falls, these are recorded. The sound of a titmouse playing on the...

The Norwegian wild bee

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Soundscape of buzzing bees in a field in Leknes, Norway. Recorded by Agapi Zita. 

Deforestation - killing in the name of

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cousins Ave forest has been enjoyed by walkers, joggers and cyclists for decades. I regularly take my dog into the forest for a long run. Several week...

Après moi, le déluge

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This piece was inspired by the global issue of flooding. It includes extracts from the work of the 19th C English poet, John Clare (reading by Ian Ki...

B-geophone-lounge

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The melodic and maybe even slightly forlorn sound of the bees made me want to include them as a layer in a moody instrumental piece so they became a ...

Foxton bleach

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bleach: to lose colour. The recording of the Foxton Beach deforestation is transposed in a process of timbre decolorization. Using the original record...

Pantuase (wetland at night)

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"When choosing the field recording to work with, I was particularly drawn to a field recording of nocturnal amphibians from Pantuase, Ghana, featuring...

Tonal and polyrhythmic amphibians in a wetland

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pantuase is a new wetland location added to two other wetland locations namely Trom and Bonya which were previously recorded in 2021 and 2022. Those t...

Kyoto bamboo nocturne

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At night, in a bamboo grove in Kyoto, the wind threads its way through the tall stalks, bending them until they sway and knock together with hollow to...

Niger desert installation, Klimahaus museum

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Inside the Klimahaus museum, which is dedicated to telling the stories of climate and the environment. The exhibition called "The Journey" takes you a...

Holy Communion in the Abbey

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A recording of Holy Communion taking place in the iconic surroundings of Westminster Abbey, with the service audible both from the priest directly and...

Meridian

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This raw desert field recording, resonating from the halls of the Klimahaus Bremerhaven in Germany (Climate House Museum Bremerhaven), sparked a visi...

Multiple space and time

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I recorded and played all sounds. One of sound is coming from my home town Sapporo, when my grandmother was gone. Some of instrument is bass clarinet...

A storm

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was inspired by the beauty in the percussive sound of the bamboo, and how it contrasts with harsher rustling of the wind and rain. I decided to use...

White whale in the Red Sea

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Red Sea is a place with such rich history and significance, it felt overwhelming to try and encapsulate it fully. The field recording reflected t...

Attrition

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"After being initially drawn to the rhythmic sounds of the sea and the tumbling rocks, I wanted to explore that process of erosion through the slow br...