Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Hill of the Buddha

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An architectural space of deep spiritual meaning in Sapporo, Japan. Recorded by David Mintom.

Movement amongst the trees

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A response to a chorus of tree frogs." Frog chorus in Yokohama, Japan reimagined by Alex Vald.

Schlegel's green tree frog

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the call of the Schlegel's green frog, a frog endemic to Japan. When one of them starts croaking, a call and response begins. The contrast bet...

Aequoreus

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A hydrophone recording from the Adriatic Coast of Italy captures the fascinating and vibrant sounds of marine life. You can hear the clicks, pops, and...

Siennacircle

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"In retrospect, this was a tricky choice of audio file, as the original recording is hard to better in terms of sheer absorbing alien sound quality. I...

Local street market, Mtskheta

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mtskheta is one of the oldest cities of Georgia and its former capital. The beautiful city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, features a winding market ju...

Zulu songs in a game reserve restaurant

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An a cappella performance by the staff in the resort restaurant at the end of the evening meal. The waiters and chefs and kitchen staff gather in rows...

On Gilbert Bridge

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In March 2025 we made a series of recordings in and around the Barbican Centre, with the idea of those sounds being folded back into the Observatory S...

Branches and blades

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I had a passing notion of a ’concerto for chainsaw and strings’ after hearing this recording - this is a fumbling exploratory sound sketch in tha...

Mtskheta

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The voices of the people in the market were so richly expressive and full of life, so I wanted to keep the emphasis on them and utilize their unique ...

Zigzag

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I found out that Imfolozi means “zigzag” in isiZulu, so this was my inspiration to try and make a piece that never sits still, twists and turns. ...

Industrial log disposal

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The extremely loud business of tree and log disposal in Greenwich Park. Trees are trimmed, and the branches and logs are thrown into the back of the w...

Breathe brick ghosts

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A drone of "stimvocals" and fountains below mechanical concrete."  Gilbert Bridge soundwalk at the Barbican Centre, London reimagined by Dee Fry.

Traditional silk weaving, Skye

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional silk weaving on a countermarch floor loom, as it has been done for thousands of years. Thanks to Skye Silks for letting us record them at ...

Caller ID

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This piece reimagines a field recording of everyday people calling out, treating their voices not just as source material, but as the foundation. App...

Voices of the Delta

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What began as a simple request for a song became an unforgettable moment. Deep in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, at Gomoti Plains Camp, I asked the staf...

Roaming silence

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As I began losing my hearing, the urgency of archiving memory through everyday sounds became more pressing. This work invites viewers to gain a deeper...

Tucson AZ

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I wanted to take the dreamy, on the road vibe of the sample and put it in a totally different aural world." Hearing aid recording in Tucson, USA rei...

Mountain echoes

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The sound of wood whistles and singing stretched to form a sonic memory of a moment embracing regional songs. Regional music that has been passed dow...

Music in the mountains

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is Angelos, one of the permanent residents of the village of Mikro Papingo, which is one of the 46 stone villages in this mountainous region of n...

96 unread

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I created several samples from the original field recording and used 2 that dictated the direction of the rest of the composition. Silk weaving is tr...

Okavango Delta jam

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The Okavango Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to several indigenous communities, including the Batswana and San people, who have lived ...

12 noon at the Lutheran church

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Huge 12 noon Sunday bells peal out over a sustained period from the Marktkirche Lutheran church in Hannover, preceded by a walk along a street with se...

Bells way out of confusion

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I love bells, and this is a beautiful recording. I feel like Bells have a really unearthly sound. I just let the Bells lead me along as bells do. I a...

Gloucester Cathedral bells from inside the antiques market

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was a Saturday afternoon and I was browsing antiques at the Gloucester Antiques Centre when I heard the muffled sound of bells. I moved to the back...

Where the wild things whisper

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A nighttime recording from the Ecuadorian Amazon reveals the hidden world that awakens after dark. Bats flutter overhead, insects create an otherworld...

Malapascua Island fishing village

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As dawn stretches gently over the bay, the village stirs to life. The soft clatter of fishermen preparing their lines mingles with the playful clinks ...

Takeshita Street, Tokyo

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Takeshita Street, located in Harajuku, Tokyo, is a bustling pedestrian-only street known for its fashion boutiques, cafés, and restaurants. In the re...

Lifeforms in the brush

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"When listening to the field recording I kept imagining movement all around me. Then I began going to a darker place where I felt large unseen creatur...

Takeshita Street (Andy Lyon reimagining)

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Takeshita Street is a busy pedestrian street, I've taken a perspective of being someone who is lost in the crowd / distracted by their phone to creat...

An imperfect cadence

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was inspired by the melancholy and foreboding tone of the bells in direct contrast to the modern chatter like the call of the ancient with the bell...

Malapascua Island (Head Like a Hole remix)

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Remix of Malapascua Island Fishing Village field recording merged into music with inspiration from Head Like A Hole by Nine Inch Nails. All samples a...

It happened so fast

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This is a strange pub scene, the kind where all of a sudden you’re inside your own head, as if flashing back years later. The premise came from the...

Spending the night in a traditional Irish pub

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ambience from inside Kelly's Cellars, a traditional Irish pub in Belfast, including traditional music, pub chatter and the sounds of drinking and gene...

Birdsong from West Street

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The dawn chorus of Balgowlah, Sydney, NSW in the midsummer, about 6:30am. I heard kookaburras, cockatoos, lorikeets, magpies, noisy miners and many mo...

The Amazon's loud frogs

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A pre-dawn soundscape dominated by the loud, relentless chorus of frogs, immersing you deeply in the heart of an indigenous community. The sounds get ...

Extremely difficult

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I've been recently working with an old non-linear editing system that has a few quirks. Sometimes, the system freezes making my stressful job even mor...

A love song from Sudan

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Friday market in Ventimiglia, an Italian town on the border with France, is alive with the bustle of French tourists who come weekly to buy goods....

El espejo de la naturaleza

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Rafael Diogo's recording of the Colombian Amazon sounded so rich to me - and rich in a way that evoked certain things that could happen in my modular...

Exactimo

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was struck by the many underlying tensions of this recording. The racialized profiling described by Masha Hassan—the dual nature of observation, ...

ExtremelyDifficult03

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The original source recording is from an old sound editing machine that sometimes freezes up on the operator and starts looping at that spot.  "I h...

Balgowlah slowdown

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I slowed down Emma Lambert's field recording progressively and in layers so the soundspace is a gradual stretching of her field recording. At three q...

Music baths in Tokyo

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The original sound is a recording of Sengoku-yu Public Baths in Tokyo: the owner is a musician. On this particular Monday, three musicians are workin...

Fishermen near The Bouche du Roy, Benin

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Songs of fishermen retrieving fish trapped in large nets by force of arms. Recorded by Pierre Costard.

Shut the hell up! (feat. Shoez Plimsoul)

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I wanted to do something a bit synthwave / cyberpunk / Blade Runner influenced. The original clip gave me the feeling of night and neon lights. I had...

Afternoon in Sigri

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My two italian friends had rented a house in Sigri in the island of Lesvos. The house was just by the sea so one could hear constantly the waves insid...

The sound of 500 wind bells

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First is the sound of 500 wind chimes suspended on wires. Then you can hear the morning service begin at the temple. The sound of sutra reading, the b...

Public bath cleaning, Tokyo

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This sound was recorded in 2025 at Sengoku-yu, where there is a public bath. The owner of this place is a musician. On Monday mornings, three musicia...

On the New Orleans streetcar

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Riding a classic New Orleans streetcar.  Recorded by Alex Clifford.

Voodoo fishing

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I aimed for making it sound like a disturbing dream. Used the entire original recording with a copy processed with echo and reverb as well. A drone, ...

Mostly goes astray

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Drawing on the lapping waves and flute of the original, I teased out some drones and loops, which I layered and structured using the original recordi...

Formless spring

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This piece was an exploration of space and the principle of formlessness. The recording very much inspired me to move away from typical form and stru...

Please hold on for your safety

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"My first memories of New Orleans were made fifty years ago during a family vacation to the city when I was seven years old. I remember a frenzied eve...

Announcements at Cafe Thom

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Government announcements blast by Cafe Thom, a local hot spot for good coffee next to Tay Ho lake. Recorded in Hanoi, Vietnam by Kit Wilmans Fegradoe...

Night market on the water, Benin

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let yourself be transported by these Beninese women who sell all kinds of food from 3am on board their pirogues before setting off to fish on Lake Nok...

Singing, rowing, shouting selling

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I took a brief sample of the sounds of the market & used the granular synth Kaivo to create a repetitive but ever-changing piece, which emulated ...

Trajinera at Xochimilco canals

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional trajinera boat through Xochimilco canals. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. Recorded in Xochimilo, Mexico by Erick Ruiz Arellano.

Ancient Waroani dance

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This recording captures a profound moment in my field recording journey: witnessing and documenting an ancient Waorani tribal dance beneath a luminous...

Abandoned olive press

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This recording captures the haunting ambiance of a long-forgotten olive press nestled in one of Portugal's remote and ghostly regions. The structure, ...

Feeding the Greenlandic sled dogs

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This recording was made in June 2024 in Sisimiut’s “dogtown,” a designated area on the outskirts of town where most sled dogs are kept. It captu...

Crows and the city in snow

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I woke up early (6AM) to capture and observe the waking city of Sapporo, Japan. I was particularly surprised by the presence of crows, which often sat...

Fajr in Tunis

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A recording of the first call to prayer of the day, from the rooftop of my friend's house. I love the way the vocalisations from different mosques int...

Ahuexote

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Ahuexote is an acousmatic work that explores the sounds of the waterways of Xochimilco (Mexico), the oar of the trajinera, the breathing of the tree,...

Waorani ancestral

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Decided to give the inspiring piece some ambience without being too invasive." Waorani dance from Ecuador reimagined by Elaine Silva.

Acoustic residue

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Processed using the MakeNoise Tape and Microsound Machine. The work abstracts the sounds of the olive press while retaining its original acoustic cha...

Dogtown

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A team of 18 sled dogs at the Sisimiut observatory station in Greenland howls in a rising and falling chorus at feeding time. While a human can typic...

Sapporo

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I liked the sound of the crows, you hear them everywhere. I manipulated the original sound and improvised over it and then reworked the whole. By acc...

Fajr

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The original sound file is the core of the piece, having taken shorter bits of the  audio and collaged them with audio from synthesizers to form the...

Italian ski lift

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I really liked the 'ka-chunk' sounds the ski lift makes as it goes over the uneven parts in the wires, kind of like the sounds trains make going over...

Sorry I was gone there for a moment

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The field recording I worked with was of an everyday moment; the beeps and clicks of a traffic light, and as soon as I heard it I was singing along, ...

Tick, tick, ticktickticktick

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The distinctive ticking of a pedestrian crossing on a busy road in Tallinn, which gets quicker to let you know it's time to cross, and slower when it'...

Ascending on a ski lift

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This recording was taken while ascending on a chair ski lift. The mountain is sparse, empty and still with no wind. The only sound is the machinery an...

High energy in Mexico: Connecting la Presidenta, the P’urhépecha nation and the university.

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 I developed my composition from the gentle hubbub of people inside the echoey library of one of the world’s great universities: the Universidad Na...

Library at UNAM, Mexico City

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Library at UNAM. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. Recorded in Mexico City by Erick Ruiz Arellano.

Harbour life in Oban

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A classic soundscape of Oban harbour, starting with serving up langoustines, crabs and mussels in the seafood shack, a walk along the harbour wall and...

Folk songs by the lighthouse

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A couple with acoustic guitars entertain themselves - and all the passers-by - singing and playing folk songs underneath the lighthouse in Bremerhaven...

Evening at the dam

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's early October 2020, the Australian springtime is in full swing. We are at a beautiful large property in the Tweed Valley, owned by members of our...

Spring ritual

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"After listening to the sample, we started working on it isolating the voice, guitar, and other ambient sounds. By manipulating these elements, we cre...

Saw Oban on the water

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Since this project is based on the experience of landscapes and memory, starting this immediately intrigued me; while searching through the archive o...

An evening cacophony

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I listened to the naturescape a few times before becoming inspired to add some instrumentation. Improvising chord progressions at different tempos al...

Beneath Shanghai

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Being in Shanghai was strange and beautiful — a blend of wonder and solitude. The culture felt distant, not unfriendly, but quiet in a way I hadn’...

Inclusion

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Melodic ambient soundscape, underlined with the voices from the station. Floating pads, atmospheric aesthetics.Esoteric dialogue for a deep diving an...

Talking bowler hats (my name is Lee Walker)

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A lot of my current work includes text so I was drawn towards this recording of a sound installation of people talking. I edited the original audio s...

These hats... are talking

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England (the birthplace of prime minister Winston Churchill), there are exhibitions dotted around about ways of lif...

Residue

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I have used the source track recorded in a church in Valletta, which is an ambient recording of a sacred space and created a composite sound piece to...

Knisja tal-Vitorja

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Our Lady of Victory Church in Valletta, the first church and building completed in the city, carries with it centuries of history and gratitude. C...

Dance of the waiter

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I envisioned a hot day in Italy a large square full of restaurants people eating lunch and the waiters movements as they serve the guests. Using soun...

The city is quiet

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A very hot August afternoon in Treviso, Italy. The city is on its post-lunch break, while the sun is at its hottest - shops are closed, there are very...

Protesting on the streets of Paris

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A huge, multi-organisation street protest in Paris, France, recorded on 14 December 2024. Multiple groups, ranging from labour rights and workers' org...

At the pace of nature

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This recording captures a poignant moment from my time living in one of southern Portugal's most secluded villages. Each evening, the shepherds and th...

Amphibians at dawn

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This recording captures the dawn amphibian chorus in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. The previous night, a large storm had passed over an...

Riverside before the night

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is an evening recording of the riverside next to my Wife's family dacha - their holiday house in Ukraine on a warm summer evening in 2021. In the...

Veias d’água

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This recording captures the serene underwater ambiance of the Fraga da Pena stream in Portugal, just downstream from the waterfall. The tranquil envir...

Tram 7

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tram route number 7 in Helsinki, from the ferry terminal to the Kamppi shopping centre. Classic tram sounds, Finnish announcements, conversation betwe...

Baguio Plaza - Loakan public utility jeepney (PUJ) route

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A field recording of a Baguio Plaza-Loakan Public Utility Jeepney (PUJ) trip from the Loakan terminal to its terminal in T. Claudio Street, Baguio Cit...

Morning rain in Palenque jungle

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Morning rain in Palenque jungle. Stereo 48kHz 24bit. Recorded by Erick Ruiz Arellano.

Inertia network

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"As the familiar, rhythmic clatter of the tram on its journey towards Kamppi provides a grounding sense of movement, Karhide, working within Ableton L...

Hydrographic reverie

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Hydrographic Reverie unfolds as a misted recollection of an ecosystem—not quite remembered, not fully imagined. A morning chorus of frogs and toads...

Jazz in grunge

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"For Jazz in Grunge, I let myself be guided by the original field recording and it's rudeness; both the content and the recording itself are very root...

Clouds over Baguio

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This piece is built around a field recording of a jeepney ride through Baguio City, with the original recording being both mixed and processed throug...