Cities and Memory - remixing the world

1405 épisodes

The buzz Of Ao Nang night market
02/06/2026 | 4 min
This is Ao Nang night market, Thailand, where an announcement for Muay Thai can be heard along with musical instruments and the buzz of people.
Recorded by Jake Edwards.
Watching the world
02/06/2026 | 4 min
"Watching the World is a generative composition which was performed live and built from the recording which was processed through granular synthesis and other effects. The textures, harmonic material were inspired by the recording with a sense of movement and transition which I wanted to capture.
"The piece used a system based on four-part harmony (SATB) to organise the arrangement of the granular layers allowing harmonic sequences to emerge. Apart from some of the drums and the sine wave synth, all sounds within the composition originate from the processed recording."
Blue Temple, Chiang Rai reimagined by Neil Spencer Bruce.
Static twilight
02/06/2026 | 2 min
Jeff: "My intent was to create a dreamy walk down a street of an unfamiliar city in an unfamiliar part of the world. Working with yamo is a collaboration in spirals and poetry; she filters the world through a soft daydream. I put textures and incidental events inside her world that are like a radio broadcast from an open doorway or from a busker on the sidewalk as you wander around."
yamo: "Regarding the inspiration behind this piece: although I have never actually visited Thailand, listening to this audio track evoked such a vivid image that I felt as if I were standing alone amidst the streets of a Thai city. Drawing upon that sensation, I created a collage of sounds—incorporating the exotic resonance of bells and the lyrical whisper of the wind as it drifts through narrow alleyways."
Golden Triangle, Ban Sop Ruak, Thailand reimagined by Jeff Brown and yamo.
Lawnmowers in the mountains
02/06/2026 | 6 min
Four or five people work with lawnmowers and strimmers around the restoration of a cabin in the Dolomites - the sound travels wide and far, and reverberates off the rock faces to give a very particular mountain soundscape of work.
Recorded in the Dolomites, July 2025 by Cities and Memory.
The long ladder steps of the Bangbang
02/06/2026 | 4 min
Locals in Chongqing call these steep stairways “long ladder steps.” This recording captures one such corridor, still tread by “bangbang” porters. It’s morning school rush: vendors hawk, footsteps echo, delivery station chatter booms, and schoolkids’ jabber rings from afar—all swirling in a hundred-step passage. Cities with Z-axis terrain stack buildings vertically, weaving complex, layered echoes with distinct character.
(“Bangbang” refers to porters who use a metre-long, wrist-thick bamboo stick to carry goods, climbing hundreds of steps to haul cargo from riverboats to upland warehouses. Only a few dozen remain today.)
Recorded in Chongqing, China by Digimonk.

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Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world. The project presents an amazingly-diverse array of field recordings from all over the world, but also reimagined, recomposed versions of those recordings as we go on a mission to remix the world. What you'll hear in the podcast are our latest sounds - either a field recording from somewhere in the world, or a remixed new composition based solely on those sounds. Each podcast description tells you more about what you're hearing, and where it came from. There are more than 8,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 140 countries and territories. The sounds cover parts of the world as diverse as the hubbub of San Francisco’s main station, traditional fishing women’s songs at Lake Turkana, the sound of computer data centres in Birmingham, spiritual temple chanting in New Taipei City or the hum of the vaporetto engines in Venice. You can explore the project in full at www.citiesandmemory.com

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