Cities and Memory - remixing the world
Episodes
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...
So-so
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I drew inspiration for this piece from the serene sounds captured in a field recording done by Ben Gale of life around a river in Ukraine. The tranqu...
Wave
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"All the sounds in this piece were present in the original file. It was a delight to listen again and again to Erick’s recording and find new and su...
Fraga da Pena to the Atlantic Ocean
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"When I think about Portugal the beaches and the Atlantic Ocean come to my mind. When I heard the silent drops of the sample I had the idea to connect...
Paris
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Just having some fun at 96 BPM in Ableton Live." Protest in Paris reimagined by Hens Zimmerman.
Memories of the calm waters
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Imagine that you are in a boat or canoe on the river, the water goes here and there, it starts in very calm waters, you listen to the birds and float...
Birdsong at St. John River
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birdsong in a quiet rural spot on St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada. According to Birdnet, the species you can hear include the swamp sparrow, ...
Lumo
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The sonic landscape of this audio recording felt very familiar to me, reminding me of wind chimes in my childhood home, and the many feathery neighbo...
Nesting in an old antenna
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On São Miguel Island in the Azores, there is a decommissioned satellite communication Earth station featuring a 32-metre parabolic antenna. It was on...
Hymn for the holiday rain
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The field recording brought back memories of camping holidays we took in Wales. It always rained (or seemed to). I added additional field recordings ...
Nant-Yr-Onnen
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This recording was captured from the second floor of an open window while it was raining in Wales. The listener can feel the rain drops lick the windo...
Wazirpur industrial
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"My initial listening to the source sound evoked strong feelings of nostalgia, (when I was younger, I spent many months travelling around India and st...
An evening in the Wazirpur industrial area
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wazirpur is one of the 29 industrial areas spread across Delhi – NCR. The place is overrun with hundreds of small-scale factories which have attract...
Spirited away
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I initially wanted to pick a sound from nature to work with, but the Reitaisai Festival grabbed my attention as soon as I came across it. I didn’t ...
Camargue serenade: flamingo nuptial dance
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Immerse yourself in the enchanting soundscape of the Camargue, a region in southern France renowned for its breathtaking landscapes and iconic wildlif...
What grandmother taught
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I used the field recording of the flamingos to inspire my composition. I mimicked their clatter and calls with rattle, whistle and drum. Over the top...
Reitaisai festival, Tokyo
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reitaisai is an important festival held by Shinto shrines in Japan. People from the town where the shrine is located gather and carry a mikoshi (porta...
Irregular ellipsoid
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The natural sounds were highly rhythmic in a complex almost unsettling way. I pulled key elements from the soundscape and highlighted them as percuss...
Cicadas at the Jellybean Pool
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cicadas at the Jellybean Pool, Blue Mountains, Australia. Recorded by Richard Watts.
The earth and I spring at each other
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The original field recordings is symphonic in its beautiful showcase of nature at its finest, with birds, frogs and insects interweaving in the atmosp...
Terranova
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The soundscape captures the vibrant symphony of a late spring evening. The serene ambiance unfolds with the rhythmic calls of frogs resonating across ...
Wailing Wall, Ha'it al-Buraq
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sound of Jews performing a ritual at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem on a special day during Jewish Easter celebrations. The recording is done in the mi...
Bring them home protest, Jerusalem
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This recording is the intense sound from a "Bring them home"-protest march in Jerusalem, the crowd shouting, chanting,talking, demanding the Netanyahu...
At-Tur, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recordings of ambience from Aṭ-Ṭūr (Mount of Olives) overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem. The Al Aqsa temple-mount in the distance, the jewish ...
Ubud market morning
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This recording captures the vibrant atmosphere of Ubud's local market, where the sounds, sights, and aromas of Balinese culture come alive. This recor...
Shanghai dreams
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The bees swarming and the sound of footsteps in the old street of Shanghai indicate the entrance into a fantasy world. "The original field recordi...
Bali market
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I jumped at the chance to use audio from a market, thinking that humans gathering together at market must be nearly as old as civilization itself. Th...
And it rains
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The subject of the original recording gave me pause. My overwhelming reaction was one of sadness at how little humanity changes, and how painful and ...
Pray now
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The original field recording is called ‘Jerusalem Palestine Prayer’ and we selected this because of the unity and energy of the voices. These voi...
Echoes of the wall
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"“Echoes of the Wall” is a haunting and deeply evocative musical composition built around a field recording taken at the Wailing Wall (Western Wal...
A corner of Sanlin old street, Shanghai
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stepping on leaves, old man sneezing, birds singing, kids' laughter, water flowing, dog gasping, people talking, scooter siren, sparrow calling, wind ...
Good question
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I listened to the Barcelona Auction by Ferran Destemple and I knew that I could do something interesting with the auctioneer's voice. I wanted to cre...
Els encants de Barcelona
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This recording captures the auction at the "flea market" of the "Encants" in Barcelona. The auction takes place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday...
When the grass was taller
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The field recording from Perugia, Italy instantly reminded me of long summer days lying in the grass looking at clouds. I decided to keep as much of ...
The memory of the countryside
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The recording is from April 16, 2025 at 16:27 and was made at the Parco della Pescaia, a small park located in the south-west area of the city of Peru...
Osanpo
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This sound was all recorded and played, composed by me/the last parts with Mubilla my mother. A field recording from a walk at Mt. Mitake is mainly...
Scraping the bottom
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I took a small segment of the snapping shrimps and slowed this down significantly by differing amounts then layered these new files. A recording of s...
Chorus of insects, frogs and bats in Ghana
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Insect calls in distinctive stereo fields and frogs singing and calling in the background. Subtle Church music can be heard in the background. This...
Snapping shrimps on the Florida Atlantic coast
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the sound of thousands of snapping shrimps recorded with a hydrophone on a very dark night near New Smyrna Beach in Florida. The moment my hyd...
Call of the gibbons, Cat Tien Park
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Someone once told me that the sound of gibbons is a sound designer’s wet dream — and they were right. But recording them? That was a journey. I ha...
Call of the gibbons
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Hearing gibbons in the wild is a magical experience. Their language is dynamic and haunting. My intention was to provide a mood and additional atmosp...
Koko and the strange bird
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Every place has a heartbeat, a beat all its own. As a songwriter, I try to echo the beauty and mystery which already exits. "For the Koruse Beach ...
The duck attack
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This recording, made in 2024 on the beach of Kõruse village in Saaremaa, Estonia, captures an unfiltered moment of nature in spring, when bird activi...
Dawn at Fivebough
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Murrumbidgee River catchment extends from the Snowy Mountains to beyond the dusty plains of Hay and includes numerous permanent and temporary wetl...
Glooop
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I tried to play along with sounds of the swamp using a mix of analogue and digital electronic devices, which was a rewarding challenge, even if natur...
Dance of the spring sprites
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I loved the sound of the running water. As I was listening I was imagining a fantasy world with magical sprites flying around the banks of a stream, ...
Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This recording features a hydrophone capture from the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park in Abruzzo, Italy. While exploring the area, I dis...
Windrush
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"First you hear the river, flowing, splashing. Then, when you listen closer, subtler sounds emerge, pebbles rolling, bubbles fizzing. In response to t...
Under the old stone bridge
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a cold February afternoon in Oxfordshire, England, we record the sounds of the River Windrush flowing under an old English stone bridge, with the s...
For Oliver's travels
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This beautiful recording of waves washing over tumbling stones captured my imagination immediately. The waves are infinitely soul soothing and the st...
Wild waves, Puerto de Valldemossa
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heavy waves dragging large stones back and forth on a wild beach at the harbour of Puerto de Valldemossa in the UNESCO-listed Serra de Tramuntana in M...
Oh! Nightingale
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I have used the original recording throughout . The deer hooves act as percussion in some parts, the nightingale brings rhythm to sections and there ...