Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Episodes
Hummingbirds of the cloud forest
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When I originally tried to work with this song, a dance of the U’wa people of the cloud forests of north-east Colombia, I kept hitting walls. It wa...
After Mamadu
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece was created in response to an archival field recording made by Louis Sarno among the Bayaka people of the Central African Republic. Instea...
U'wa Cobaria dance
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U'wa Cobaria dance from the Andes in north-east Colombia.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a col...
Forest sounds with bird calls and distant thunder
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...
Floating waves on the Zambezi
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine tuning a radio time-machine dial between the past and present of the Zambezi River valley; birds weave a tapestry in and out of the soundsc...
Bari women chanting
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While artist-in-residence at the Alice Boner Institute in Varanasi, India, I was lucky to hear chanting every day - nearly all day. The chanting is s...
Bantu songs from Zambia
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bantu songs from Zambia: recording of a selection of Bantu songs and music, including drumming, issued by the Zambia Broadcasting Corporation.From th...
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...
Along the Nile (Nuerland)
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I came to this field recording by chance, yet I still remember the first time I listened to it, standing in my kitchen with headphones on, looking ou...
A centroid with Chocó
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The development of this piece was particularly complicated for reasons I can’t fully explain. I tried various jumping off points, taking sections o...
Geedal (bow harp) in the forest with rain dripping
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mamadu playing the geedal (bow harp) in the forest with the sound of rain dripping. From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University...
An ode to a river, a parrot, a woman
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What is the sound of a poetry work emerging from a fascinating, haunting, remote (for the poet) territory?A reverberation, a story, a journey within ...
Navel-Miel performance with rattle and seed pods
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Navel-Miel performance accompanied by shaken rattle and seed pods.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being...
Chocó mouth organ 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...
Chocó woman calling a parrot
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...
Nuer people 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...
Azul - two worlds
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Azul means “hello” in Berber. Azul – Two Worlds is inspired by Akassar, a traditional Berber song recorded in 1961 as part of the Oxford Univer...
An endless vibration
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When I listened to the recording, I went back to sit with my mother in nature in the village. The rhythm was beating her favourite song (Rewşenê) a...
The colonisation of language: a phraseology in five parts
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Colonisation of Language: A Phraseology in Five Parts explores, in a broad sense, aspects of oral storytelling and how the influence of colonisat...
Akassar (song) with violin and drum
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...
Tu Paine: song for guitar
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Tu Paine": song for guitar performed by Robert and Paul.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a lar...
Broadcast from a broken time machine
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I was attracted to the age and broken nature of this recording and wanted to use the noise as a feature. All the sounds featured originate from the o...
Lullaby sung by Nadeng to her baby
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 music and spoken l...
Nadeng's song - a lullaby in cycles
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I listened to this beautiful excerpt of Nadeng singing to her child and the sonic presence of children and a baby. I grew increasingly attached to th...
On the footsteps of Khakcilik
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Fiat Lux". From the living breath of Genesis to the Kikuyu’s sacred seed, from the Greek cosmic egg to the Sulawesi tale of the earth-shaking boar...
Bridge work (2018)
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As a student during the early 00s I lived close to Hammersmith Bridge and would often spend time there along the river. The architecture of the bridg...
Underneath Hammersmith Bridge
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This was recorded in June 2018 on the Lower Mall path under Hammersmith Bridge, London, during a busy time for pedestrian traffic; this was less than...
Every form of transport at once
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An interesting spot in central Berlin at Gontardstrasse - an intersection with passing trams and buses from two sides, while trains pass overhead to ...
Every form of transport and voices (stereo effect)
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I was especially inspired by the rhythmic, stereo qualities of the traffic sounds. Their sound texture gave me new inspiration every time I listened ...
Indonesian reverie
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"This recording felt introspective, reflective and meditative and the Indonesian chant took me back to Bali, where I had just been in April 2025. I u...
Rumah Tangga's back yard
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There are various insects and birds in Rumah Tangga while the space is filled with gardens. During the morning time, there used to be a 'sholawat' (a...
Riffbert the frog
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I found inspiration for this piece within the first few seconds of listening to the recording, it quite literally leapt out at me (Pardon the pun), ...
The frogs of Varka
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"One night the frogs of Varka village were improvising!"Recorded in Varka, Greece by Agapi Zarda.
Kelvingrove
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The original sample was resampled, with a lot of treatments. Guitar samples were added, as well as synth and keyboards sounds. The idea was to end up...
Kelvingrove museum atmosphere
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The atmosphere of the Kelvingrove art museum in Glasgow. People walking, talking, children playing. The amazing reverberation of the building makes s...
The ballad of Bab Doukkala
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The most striking feature of the original field recording is dozens of motorbikes and scooters zooming past and dodging their way through the pedestr...
The bikes of Bab Doukkala
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Marrakesh, Morocco - at 9.30pm in the Bab Doukkala district, the city is full of life. Shops are open and bustling, the area is mostly locals and fe...
Midnight in an amphibian world
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For this piece, multiple layers of synths, strings and other instruments layer on top of one another, performing variations of the same melody, to mi...
Boat launch blues
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Reimagination of Hastings Boat Launch with a blues shuffle feel to it."Hastings boat launch reimagined by Gareth Eckley.
Green vs grey
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
|Trees and birds have always been considered the lungs of a neighbourhood. Yet, even though we recognise their value, the policy of too many (Belgian...
Midnight froglings, Goa
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This was recorded near a field after the rain around midnight where frogs were having a huge discussion about meeting their future partners.Recorded ...
Launching
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
his recording, made in January 2025, is of one of the fishing boats being launched from the beach in Hastings. This sustainable fishing fleet has a h...
Amsterdamse Bos
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Amsterdamse bos is a 100-year-old forest surrounded by a 750-year-old city. This artificial forest is both a forest and park-like. It provides a sign...
Checkpoint Charlie
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ambisonics recordings at Checkpoint Charlie, the famous crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.Recorded by Anders Vin...
Checkpoint
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I wanted to keep the original recording as intact as possible. I had some chord progressions I was already working on, and they seemed to fit the th...
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...