Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Episodes
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...
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...