Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Episodes
Flutes in the forest at night
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Momboli and Gongé playing flutes in the forest at night.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a lar...
Rooted
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The field recording from India immediately revealed itself to me as a form of male ritual music, rooted in repetition, gesture, and collective memory...
A sound that no longer exists
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I was delighted to work with the recording of Aka masters Momboli and Gongé, playing flutes in the forest at night, recorded by Louis Sarno in the...
It looks like you're trying
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The source material that I worked with was a field recording from the 60s in which someone in Morocco is singing a song, begging for bread. When I fi...
Durei-na-mbwe 2.0
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Durei-na-mbwe 2.0” plays with notions of time, decay and transformation; with it, I wanted to capture the embodied experience of me listening to...
Voices through wires
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The archival field recordings of Bayaka hunters captured by Louis Sarno were the starting point of this work, not only for their sonic richness, but ...
Ait Haddidu beggar singing for bread
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...
Durei-na-mbwe (song) by the Broken Consort
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Durei-na-mbwe (song) by the Broken Consort, with Samuel on bu-wahr-wahr (panpipes), accompanied by Dominique, Erine, Ferdinand and Marineau.From the ...
Out in the forest with Bayaka hunters
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...
Man singing with percussion
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...
Man playing bināyā (jew's harp)
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...
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...
Dancing echoes
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Inspiration came from both the sound recording itself, and my impressions of the Pitt Rivers Museum. I was struck by the many objects and collections...
Edge of the mountain
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For this project I challenged myself to create every sound directly from the original recording. Drum hits, textures, bass and even a cowboy guitar w...
Echoes from the roof
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The production process centred on preserving the integrity of the original field recording from Lokhim, Nepal, while building a modern arrangement ar...
Two mornings (21,915 days and 8,480 km apart)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A reflection on distance, time and listening.Morning sounds captured on reel-to-reel tape in Chocó, Colombia in 1965 meet digital recordings made si...
Andean music including flute and drum
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a number of miscellaneous or individual ethnographic field r...
Noriya/port-cruinn
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Noriya is a men’s generational song celebrating and praising Ngitamo, the guinea fowl. The original recording of the Larim people in South Sudan in...
Men's generation song from South Sudan
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Noriya": a men's generation song from South Sudan ("Praise the guinea fowl Nyitamo/ He's always hard-working").From the sound collections of the Pit...
When the mountains sing
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The recording I chose is over 50 minutes of cassette tape recordings from the 1970s, capturing interviews and recordings of live music performed by c...
Morning soundscape among the Chocó people
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cockerel crowing: morning soundscape among the Chocó people of north-west Colombia.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University ...
Come back after years
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For this creative project, my starting point was an archival recording of a Yoruba chant from Nigeria, recorded around 1911. I chose to work with thi...
Journey into the secret
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Initiation into the Poro, or secret society, constitutes the rites of manhood for the Mende people in Sierra Leone. As a means to develop the emotion...
Atlas wedding
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I tried to stay true to the recording, at the same time reimagining the setting. It is a threshing song; I changed the setting to be more geared towa...
Igbo vocal group with leader and percussion
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...
Mende Poro 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 songs and spoken la...
Ait Haddidu threshing 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 Berber (Ait Ha...
Submersion study (the water remembers)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a process-based piece, exploiting the conceptual connection with water. I applied a series of transformations to the original cassette record...
Zande songs to accompany grinding of crops
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...
Musical boxes and cylinders
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Musical boxes and cylinders: recording of European musical boxes and cylinders in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections being played, including Englis...
Bayaka group water drumming
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bayaka group water drumming, with rhythm changes.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large colle...
A subject in a world full of objects
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"A Subject in a World Full of Objects" is a brief liaison (around St. Valentine’s Day 1977) between a collection of European musical boxes and a sl...
Zande songs (Andy Lyon reimagining)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The recording was made onto wax cylinder between 1928 and 1930. Sudan has a very turbulent past - a history of trading in slaves and ivory, a number ...
Kano bird, Kano beads, Kano seeds
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This sonic work is an attempt to communicate my profound childhood relationship with Kano, as well as to hint at the complex layers of Northern Niger...
Katajjaq in Queqqata
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For this track, I worked on a ten-minute recording of a conversation between two Inuit women. My usual approach is to research the context to inform ...
Balangi (xylophone) duet
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...
Rock gong music from Nigeria
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rock gong music from Nigeria, some rhythms accompanied by singing, with spoken introduction.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Uni...
Festival at Rich
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...
Polytime
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I wondered if I could combine something foreign with the fully formed musical space of African polyrhythms, so I tried creating parallel sounds using...
But what actually is this world we live in
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This project was a bit of a step out of my comfort zone, since, not having any cultural connection to or knowing anything much about Bulgarian tradit...
Instruments in the forest at dawn
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Instruments in the forest at dawn (flute and harp).From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large col...
A breath of time
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Then we heard the grass blades bending under the laziest hoovesbut they know how slow they should be grazing at noon Then we heard the pine twigs s...
Zande "witch doctor" song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Zande "witch doctor" song performed by Badobo.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of ...
Phonophany, or the all-revealing medium
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Phonophany, or the All-Revealing Medium dramatises the manifestation of occult and hidden mediation processes present in both audio technologies and ...
Ceremonial (wedding) music from the Himalayas
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ceremonial (wedding) music from the Eastern Himalayas in Nepal.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from...
Kukimi Lakuhu 'Le (Song of the Kuki War)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Kukimi Lakuhu 'Le" (Song of the Kuki War): polyphonic song about Sümi Naga interpreter Kekheche, who was involved in the Anglo-Kuki War of 1917–1...
Wading through the crackles, hisses and surfaces of time
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This recomposition begins from a deep interest and curiosity towards the material life of the archival recording itself. The source comes from the so...
Blue mystique mountain
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The original sound source for this composition is a selection of Nuristani songs. The voice is accompanied by a plucked and bowed string instrument a...
Bulgarian village conversations and women singing
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a number of miscellaneous or individual ethnographic field r...
Chuluth: a song for a favourite bull
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Chuluth": a Laarim man's song for a favourite bull ("I love cattle without horns/ This bull is called Logralim").From the sound collections of the P...
Logralim
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With a project like this, I knew the work had to begin with research. I immersed myself in the cultural textures of South Sudan: its music, its lands...
Boundless
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The warrior sings gently and lovingly to his favourite bull. As he repeats his song, we're drawn into the beautiful moment and as the communication c...
Laarim warrior singing to his favourite bull
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Laarim warrior singing to his favourite bull ("This bull is the whole of my love/ I will never say anything against it").From the sound collections o...
Traditional Nuristani songs
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nuristani music: recording of traditional Nuristani songs, featuring the waj (five-stringed harp) and sarangi (two-stringed fiddle), with vocal accom...
Stringed instrument and tabla
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...
Look me in the eye
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This recording was originally broadcast in 1963, in the first year of Taiwan’s first terrestrial TV station, the Taiwan Broadcasting Company. "Look...
Jaibaná
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A significant aspect of this project has been research into the location of the recording - the Colombian Chocó department, one of the rainiest regi...
All in Elgar
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I composed this piece in an attempt to understand trance. I sought to merge specific leitmotifs and elements,embedding them within a classical orches...
Torrential rain in Colombia
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Storm: recording of torrential rain made during fieldwork in Colombia.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, bei...
Cezve
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After several listenings to the beautiful 30-minute music program of Turkish folk songs (I encourage all of you to listen to the original audio in it...
Turkish folk songs about weddings and wrestling
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Turkish Folk Songs and Dances about Weddings and Wrestling": a recording of fourteen Turkish folk songs and dances issued by the Turkish Radio and Te...
Regional music of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Regional Music of the Republic of China" (Taiwan): a recording of instrumental music and folk songs issued by the Broadcasting Corporation of Taiwan...
What are they doing for us?
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I joined the project late and so this was one of the only remaining sounds - The Bwiadogan Kadede from Goodenough Island chose me, recorded by anthro...
Bwaidogan kadede: a dance song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Bwaidogan kadede": a dance song performed by Biliko, Kwaiago and Wakalubu, a trio from the Bwaidoka district of Goodenough Island.From the sound col...
A case of tongues
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I love the rhythm of the exchange between the anthropologist and the Chidigo speaker in the first section of this recording, and at first I thought a...
Researcher discussing vocabulary and translations of various English words
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"American researcher discussing vocabulary and translations of various English words": fieldwork recording of anthropologist Roger Gomm discussing wi...
Downstream
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When approaching a project like this I try to come up with a concept quickly - the immediacy of ideas is what makes most sense to me. To me, the samp...
U'wa group chant
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U'wa group chant from the Andes in north-east Colombia.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a colle...
Anew
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I chose this field recording because I liked that it’s a documentation of someone imitating the music of nature. In that original recording itself ...
Gooma (tree drum) played with sticks
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...
U'wa whistling
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U'wa whistling from the Andes in north-east Colombia.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collect...
Aural sunbeam (six records of gongs and singing)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I decided to reimagine the recording of “Six Records of Gongs and Singing”: six phonograph records of drums and singing. Originally recorded in 1...
Six records of gongs and singing
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Six Records of Gongs and Singing": six phonograph records of drums and singing from Vanuatu, originally recorded on wax cylinders by anthropologist ...
Haldora Davidsen in conversation
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a number of miscellaneous individual recordings.Unknown reco...
Barrel organs
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Barrel organs: recording of three English barrel organs in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections, comprising songs played by Freddy Hill (restorer).Fr...
Excerpts from expedition tapes
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Excerpts from expedition tapes: recording of songs and the playing of musical instruments in the northern part of the Oriente of Ecuador made by memb...
Looking for spirits
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The recording I started with came with a description, which included the following phrase: "youths [...] drum on trees as they pass through the fores...
Eulogy for Freddy Hill
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As a starting point for this project, I did some research into the person who played the barrel organs on the recording.It transpired that Freddy Hil...
Antisana
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is about feeling that you don’t know enough to handle something properly. It’s built from samples of the opening horn blast, but what really...
The spectre of recorded time and place
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece for the Century of Sound project began with a single field recording drawn from the archive of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. Rather than...
Little train
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the moment that I first heard this sound, I thought the flute sounded very much like a little steam train. At first, I researched about Columbia...
Trumpets and horns
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Trumpets and horns": narration by musicologist Jeremy Montague about the contents of the trumpets display in the Pitt Rivers Museum, with examples o...
The horn sounds like this
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"The horn sounds like this" originates from a December 1966 reel tape recording featuring musicologist Jeremy Montague demonstrating various horns. T...
Project war drum
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece began with the field recording: Bom war song and dance from Cameroon. I decided that rather than treating this recording as an objective d...
Homemade jam across time
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When I first heard this field recording, I wanted to join in with the band on the beach. With every subsequent listen, I always find myself tapping o...
Lost in this world
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I spend a lot of time thinking about a project before I even begin to work. I wanted to create something that would feel odd and a bit disorienting t...
Chocó panpipe music
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...
Laarim elder recounts the history of his people
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Loprimoi, a Laarim elder, recounts the history of his people, with the sound of blacksmiths working, hammering metal, nearby.From the sound collectio...
South Pacific "pop" music
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
South Pacific "pop" music recorded on the beach with full band, including guitar, tea chest bass and spoons.From the sound collections of the Pitt Ri...
Bom war song and dance
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...
Ngbanda playing the ngbindi (earth 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...
Subsidence
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The work is inspired by the island’s natural beauty and by the evening songs, chants, and slit drum ceremonies of the Indigenous People of Vanuatu....
Durei-na-mbwe song
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Durei-na-mbwe song (late evening performance).From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collecti...
Jungle rumble
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jungle Rumble is my musical interpretation of the awesome force and fragile stillness found within a storm passing over the tropical forests of the R...
Touraco (bird) and distant thunder
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Forest sounds with touraco (bird) and distant thunder.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large ...
Dragonfly
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Working on this project was very exciting for me for a number of reasons. Firstly, Oxford is my birthplace and my favourite museum is the Pitt Rivers...
Forest sounds with distant water drumming
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...
Kemet
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This was a haunting recording that warps and it sort of compliments the song that was being recorded at the time. I caught a psychedelic feel from th...
Default of origin
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece begins with a single recording: a forest soundscape captured by Louis Sarno in what is now the Central African Republic and the Republic o...
Zande war song and chorus
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...