Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Episodes
Barrels
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The sound in my piece is made by striking the inside of an empty prosecco tank in an Italian winery. I created this piece using Ableton and wanted to...
Eavesdropping
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The field recording was interesting to me as it revealed more after several listens. It was a combination of louder, more dynamic voices/human/enviro...
Rattling chairlift on a hot afternoon
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The "seggiovia" chairlift up to a rifugio in Pescul, in the Dolomites on a hot summer afternoon. The sound of the clicking, whirring chairlift interru...
Sunset in Naqsh-e Jahan Square
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the heart of Isfahan, Iran, the beauty of Naqsh-e Jahan Square comes alive at sunset, where the fountain glimmers under the fading light, accompani...
Green parrots at Khajuraho
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Green parrots at Khajuraho. Stereo 44kHz 24bit. UNESCO listing: Khajuraho Group of Monuments Recorded by Erick Ruiz Arellano. ———————...
Inside the Taj Mahal
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tourists in the Taj Mahal interior. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. UNESCO listing: Taj Mahal Recorded by Erick Ruiz Arellano. ——————— This soun...
(re)membering and mending
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I was born in Bolzano, Alto Adige, by the Dolomites, and lived there for the first 11 years of my life. The first breath I took was from the air corr...
Green parrot lament
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"If you have never been in/around/under a large flock of singing, squawking, vocalising and flying birds you have missed an incredible immersive exper...
Nowruz in Isfahan
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I have long been inspired by Iranian culture and particularly its music and poetry. Much to my surprise, my response to the field recording of the ...
Tomb song
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The field recording begins with a chant that sounds like the ones the Taj Mahal’s mausoleum guards sing to demonstrate the Taj Mahal’s acoustics....
The last shepherd
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is our friend Vasilis, the last shepherd in Mikro Papingo, and Iannis, his Albanan helper shearing goats. Mikro Papingo is one of the numerous st...
Street hockey at Les Invalides
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On some unused areas of tarmac close to Les Invalides and the grand boulevards that surround it, by the banks of the Seine, there are frequent games o...
Seven seconds
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I firstly loved the sound of the piece and the atmosphere of the Cathedral - the original sound is included fully, but buried in amongst the sounds o...
Players
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"On first listening to the sound recording, the sound of the hockey puck being hit placed me inside a life size pinball machine. I felt drawn to creat...
Springcraft
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This track is inspired by both the sheep shearing clipper sounds and the season in which shearing usually occurs. During my first listen of the field...
Tallinn town square by night
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A binaural recording made at 10pm in Raekoja Square at the heart of Tallinn's Old Town - we hear passers-by on all sides, restaurants and bars closing...
Live medieval musick
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inside the popular medieval Olde Hansa restaurant, which specialises in serving original medieval recipes, a group of three musicians performs with re...
Westminster Cathedral crowd presence
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This soundscape explores the quiet stillness of Westminster Cathedral - the sound of slight whispers and occasional footsteps echo amongst the airy sp...
The bell of Reval
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The otherworldly voices and the haunting church bells drew me in…. I wished to be there, standing in the square on a cold Baltic night like a scene...
Fingers on fire
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The music heard mingling with voices suggests music for dancing, but there is nothing here to see. If this recording is found in an archive many year...
Echoic object 40
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The information age has produced huge leaps in the gathering and documentation of data. Someone who has never been to Westminster Abbey no longer rel...
Morning worship, Christmas Eve
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This audio recording, captured in front of the church in Christiansfeld, Southern Denmark on the morning of Christmas Eve 2024, documents congregants ...
Intangible waters
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I. Ocean furrows II. The liquid skin of story III. Island protecting waves "What are the living sonic expressions inherited from our ancestors? Thi...
El botín de cada día
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a sound canvas where tradition, life and nature are intertwined in a vibrant auditory tapestry. The Fisherman's Wharf in Santa Cruz, Galapagos...
Talking with the Tower ravens
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ravens are one of the most famous features of the Tower of London. Their presence is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a ...
Call of bells
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The original filed recording by Robert Cole Rizzi is for the most part a rather minimalist recording. We hear a faint breeze, the small rustles of pe...
Conspiracy of ravens
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I came across a legend about the ravens in the Tower of London, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The story says that if the ravens leave, the tower fall...
Noisy morning song
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The first thing that stood out to me about this field recording is that there is no real melodic information. It’s all street noise, most of it not...
Flavours
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I tuned into the soundmarks of place, the culturally significant sounds that if heard elsewhere might trigger memories of Obispo Market Havana for th...
The space between the eras
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The silence and absence was what inspired me deeply, like the resonance of air in space. It led me to some points where I was feeling the empty space...
On the streets of Dubrovnik
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is a little window, in the attic of a Dalmatian villa from the early middle ages, overlooking the dreamy cascade landscape of downtown Dubrovnik...
Nea Pafos
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The absence of noise becomes as striking as the sounds themselves. The deep silence within the remains and caves offers a rare moment of solitude - on...
Obispo market
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Market soundscape from Obispo in Old Havana. UNESCO listing: Old Havana and its Fortification System Recorded by Jack Hyde. IMAGE: Paul Mannix, C...
China syndrome
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I based my composition upon the 5 note motif from the original field recording incorporated at the beginning of the piece and repeated throughout usi...
Dark bamboo
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I enjoy feeling disorientated sometimes; being exposed to sound worlds which don’t reveal their inner logic. The bamboo recording felt like one of ...
A modern reverence
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"By integrating electronic elements with the historic sound of the cathedral organ, the piece highlights the tension and synergy between the old and t...
St. Stephen's Cathedral organist
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As I entered Vienna's iconic St. Stephen's Cathedral in the heart of the historic centre, a service was just finishing and the organist was playing a ...
Brief synthesis, integrity, authenticity
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"In this piece, the monk's chanting runs throughout, initially heavily processed by various layers of granular synthesis, and very gradually revealing...
Monk chanting, Luang Prabang
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Monk chanting at Luang Prabang. Stereo 44kHz 16bit. UNESCO listing: Town of Luang Prabang Recorded by Erick Ruiz Arellano. ——————— Th...
Early morning at San Agustin Church
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An early morning at the San Agustin Church is far from quiet. Street sweepers tidying old cobblestone paths, the chapel staff routine inspections and ...
Boiling point -196C
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This composition is intended to hiss out of speakers in a similar manner to the liquid nitrogen hissing from the storage tanks outside the Department...
The sounds of science
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Outside the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, there are several gigantic, almost-building height tanks of liquid nitrogen behi...
Somnium retinarii
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The field recording takes us from tour group to tour group inside the world-famous Colosseum, with each guide bringing their own style and their own f...
Organ drift
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"There has been a fascinating wave of experimental and drone music in recent years placing the organ as the centrepiece of a meditative experience, ex...
Órgão de Igreja (Church organ)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recording inside the Sé Velha church, Alta de Coimbra, when someone played the service organ. UNESCO listing: University of Coimbra – Alta and So...
Warp and weft #4
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"My background is in the visual arts, with a primary focus on sculpture, particularly wood carving. Over time, I have become increasingly fascinated b...
Dreams of the bell tower watchman
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I very carefully listened to scores of recordings before settling on this one and it captured my imagination instantly. It’s incredibly rich and my...
La Clerecía
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The descent from Salamanca’s Clerecía Towers unfolds like an auditory time capsule, where each step resonates with the weight of history. The recor...
Asante Kente weaving at Bonwire, Ghana with palpable textures
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mechanisms of wooden frames and wools in a seemingly textural sonic dialog during a Kente weaving session at Asante Bonwire. Among the Asante (or Ash...
Morning incantation
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I was interested in this field recording, taken from Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Japan featuring monks chanting their morning prayer. I’ve aimed to crea...
Hypogeum
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni in Paola, Malta is a Neolithic subterranean structure dating from before 3000 BC. A necropolis and a place of sanctuary...
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum tour
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a tour in the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, walking around. You can here other tourists on the tour and recorded guides. August 2008. UNESCO listing: Ħ...
Morning prayer at Kasuga Taisha Shrine, Nara
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kasuga Taisha Shrine is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara UNESCO site in Japan. Every day, monks chant the morning prayer (chōhai) in th...
Our tapes have nothing to do with you
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"My composition 'Our Tapes Have Nothing To Do With You' was inspired by AJ Born's field recording particularly for the fact that the recording documen...
Buddhist enchantment
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This field recording of Buddhist chanting in what seems to be a temple in India was personally very timely. After recently reading several books on B...