Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Episodes
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...
Deer calls and shotguns
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A stag vocalises in some woods in the Chiltern Hills, and in this recording you can also hear the distant sounds of shotguns as hunting season has com...
Turville Heath
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"From the title I had imagined a wild open landscape with heather and peat bogs. But no, Turville Heath is more bucolic. So I felt it represents a los...
Apple blossom
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"A sonic meditation beneath the Apple Tree. Blossom surrounds you, falling softly from the branches. You are content, the sweet flesh of the apple sat...
Indian cuckoo
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As someone who lives in Northern Ireland, one of the most deforested countries in Europe, I was inspired by the forest ambience of Taman Negara in Mal...
Daytime in Taman Negara
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Immerse yourself in the timeless symphony of Taman Negara, one of the the world’s oldest rainforest, standing tall for 130 million years. As you c...
Wat Indharaviharn
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Outside the towering gold Buddha, the sound of soft clinking of wind chimes swaying in the breeze can be heard mingling with the sounds of the city an...
The Original Fishtown Singers
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A group of singers clad in nautical outfits called The Original Fishtown Singers - "Fishtown" is the affectionate nickname given to the port town of B...
March of Light 2025
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This recording illustrates one of the crucial parts of the March of Light demonstration, which is basically a flash mob based on people showing and hi...
Can't even do nothing
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our piece is inspired by a ‘March of Light’, a field recording from Austria. The rhythmic beat resembles a heartbeat. The voices that call out see...
Singing in the shower, song surfing
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The song 'Sloop John B' is sung in many languages and countries, I have sung it with friends in a pub myself, and the tune belies its gritty somewhat...
Naja haje: the way knows the way
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Naja haje: the way knows the way honours the Egyptian cobra as a guide across myth, land, and memory. Inspired by ancestral ties to Morocco and our l...
Spirituary
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Where does humanity presently sit in terms of faith, spirituality and striving for greatness? |Our recorded history manifests as a unified drive t...
Mist over delay fields
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The track was built around a single, imperfect moment in time: a field recording I captured while walking through a tunnel by the main market. You ca...
Jardin remix
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I wanted to create a musical bed of just the bird vocalizations in the Jardin de Ayora without any instruments so I grabbed different moments in the ...
Tre visi
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘Tre Visi’ explores the sonic identity of Treviso, Italy, anchoring itself in a field recording of the city’s Fontana delle Tre Facce (Fountain ...
Dawn in two places
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I chose this field recording because its sound world echoed the early-morning atmosphere of the Columbia River, a landscape that grounds me. I wove fr...
Jingzhou City, South Gate
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jingzhou City is said to be one of China’s best-preserved ancient cities, dating back to the Warring States period, with its existing walls standing...
Microphone moving around the fountain
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The "fountain of three faces" in Treviso, Italy has water coming from a three-faced figure on one head - here we move around the fountain to listen to...
Amphibian voices at dawn, Asokore-Dabiasem
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amphibian voices at dawn at Asokore-Dabiasem, Eastern Region, Ghana, recorded in A-B stereo. Identified frog species: Phrynobatrachus latifrons (Pudd...
Traditional music in Jemaa el-Fnaa Square
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a recording from Jemaa el-Fnaa Square in Marrakech, where locals are playing traditional Moroccan instruments. Among them is a special flute k...
Catedral Basílica de Santiago de Compostela
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Within the hallowed expanse of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, the organ resonates through centuries of devotion and artistry. Heard in this recordi...
Birds of the Jardin de Ayora
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This was our last day in Valencia. After an amazing lunch of empanadas and waffles, my girlfriend and I decided to take a walk to the park near the me...
Pierced heart
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Working with a field recording of an air show has been deeply gratifying. On an emotional level, it has allowed for something like sublimation or int...
Take me back to Indonesia
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This work originates from a field recording captured in Madobag Village on the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia. In the recording, the sounds of childre...
Acoustic vision from beyond - a Vietnamese funeral
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This composition was created using exclusively a recording of a traditional Vietnamese funeral ceremony. Fragments were taken from the original track...
Red Arrows flypast, Southport air show
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Red Arrows display team flying over Southport at the annual air show in July 2024, with the sound of spectators in the background. Recorded by St...
Laugther by the ancient well
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Immerse yourself in the joyful ambiance of Madobag village, Mentawai Islands, where children's laughter and playful shouts fill the air. This soundsca...
My grandfather's funeral
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My grandfather's funeral was according to village customs. Recorded in Vietnam by Nhat Vuong Nguyen Trinh.
Portland dreams
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I first visited Portland in the early 2000’s, as part of a DIY west coast tour with a band from my, (at the time) home of Brighton UK. "When I saw...
Multiverse
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I've always enjoyed Leo Villareal's "Multiverse" (2008) which is located between the East Building and the West Building of the National Gallery of Ar...
Amusement park ambience, Shanghai
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Spring Festival, the melodious tunes of traditional Chinese instruments can be heard in many places, serving as festive reminders that it i...
A train passes the Memory Den
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I'm visiting Portland from the UK. The Memory Den is a large warehouse converted to a vintage shopping Mall in the industrial area of Portland, Oregon...
Ambience of the Chinese spring festival
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I used sections of Chinese instruments from the original recording to create the piece. I used samplers to make the drone sounds; stretched the origi...
A multiverse reimagined
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"After selecting a field recording at random, I immediately researched the location… Upon looking at photographs of the location and watching a vide...
One last evening in Kashihara
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I chose this soundscape because I wanted to work with sonic elements far removed from what I’m used to hearing. That led me to explore sounds from ...
Wëeña Rügaü (children of the river)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Far deep inside the Amazon, after twelve hours on a canoe through green wilderness and mirrored skies, I arrived at a small indigenous Tikuna settlem...
By the river's side
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By the river’s side in the Amazon, Colombia, the soundscape blends the gentle rush of the water with the rhythmic motion of people washing clothes. ...
Prec-limit
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I made a number of live jams over a couple of weeks, each around an hour long, all manipulating a snippet of the recording, with some added synths; t...
Hachimanju noir
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"When I heard Miyu's recording of cicadas, I was brought back to humid late summers in Japan — where I lived for two years in the mid-aughts — p...
Archipelago of echoes
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The interface of humans and water is celebrated in the recording and composition. I collected bell sounds from the recorded soundscape, and brought t...
Surface obsessions : I
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This piece starts with the original recording, which consists of lively, beautiful species. However, as we move forward new, unconventional sounds ar...
Tsukutsukuboshi
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Japanese people call the loud cicada sound “Tsukutsukubōshi,” because that’s what it sounds like they’re singing. Don’t you think so when y...
Kokoro no Furusato
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This field recording was made on the embankment of the Yamato River. You can hear the soft flow of the river, distant cars passing by, and the 6:00 p....
Farm life, Kerala
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Farm life" captures the soundscape of an open paddy field in southern India - long after the harvest season, when weeds have reclaimed the land and r...
St. Martin's Church, Warsaw
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inside St Martin's Church, which was founded in 1356 by the Duke of Mazovia Ziemowit and his wife Euphemia. It has been repeatedly reconstructed in th...
It-Tlett Ibliet
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The recording was made at the harbor of Malta’s Three Cities: Vittoriosa, Senglea, and Cospicua - which sit directly across from the capital city of...
Placid island
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The recording is of a tornado warning siren with howling wind and rain. Although we don't get tornadoes in my part of the world, I do enjoy stormy we...
Calm before the storm: Kentucky tornado
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There have been talks of a large storm moving in after many tornadoes had already touched down in the western part of the state earlier that day. Just...
Irreversible change
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Irreversible Change is an ambient track built around a field recording captured at the Pryvoz Market. The natural bustle of the environment is anchor...
Red earth, white paint
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This recording was made during a Kathakali performance — a traditional Indian theatre art form native to the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. It ...
Pryvoz market, Odessa
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recording at Pryvoz Market in Odessa was a mix of emotions. The market buzzed with life, as vendors sold goods and people clung to everyday routines d...
Dance of the shards
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"In reimagining this field recording, I drew upon the raw power of musique concrète by manipulating and deconstructing the layered sounds from the Ka...
The Singing of Basilica di Santa Maria
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sound of religious singing in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Rome. A calm evening in February before the Basilica shuts its doors for the night, I...
Closing time
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Upon first hearing the Santa Maria field recording, I felt a strong sense of place. It was as if I were right there in Rome. I cut a section of the f...
Cairo streets at night
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sunset in Cairo, by the Nile River, during evening call to prayers. Recorded by Helen Copnall.