Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Trois femmes
09/06/2026 | 5 min
"Built around a recording of the feminist collective Nous Toutes in Paris, who formed in 2018 to speak out against and draw attention to gender-based violence. For one hour every Saturday, the group speaks while sounding a klaxon at regular intervals; these intervals reflect the findings of a 2022 survey by the Ministère de l’Intérieur, which states that there is a rape or an attempted rape in France every 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
"It felt important to step back and let the speaker’s words and the accompanying klaxons remain prominent and as clear as possible, so I added instrumentation gradually and with restraint. I initially focused on smoothing out some of the background noise, before moving on to building textures and drones until the voice steadily fades from the recording and the klaxon sounds once more.
"With Bb clarinets, noise box, Dvina, and daxophone."
Feminist protest, Les Halles, Paris reimagined by deptiva.
Etudes in iron
09/06/2026 | 2 min
"When I heard this field recording it reminded me of a similar recording my wife and I had done several years ago where we played an Iron bridge with mallets. I took this as a perfect opportunity to graft pieces of each together to create a cohesive recording of similar elements.
"The playful running of the children on the bridge formed the central musical theme which suggested the direction of the harmonies heard in the final composition."
Vibrations on La Villette Folie L5, Paris reimagined by Gerald Fratzl.
Miniature #6
09/06/2026 | 2 min
"I have been working on some piano miniatures inspired by Kurtág's Játékok, Bartok's Mikrokosmos and technical exercises such a A Dozen a Day. This piece fits into that body of work.
"I edited and manipulated a short section of the bells so that it was far more intense than the original and put some slow, relaxed arpeggios and chords beneath that. I inverted that idea in the second part to include the recording of people inside the church but added faster, more intense arpeggios."
Saint Sulpice, Paris reimagined by Simon Belshaw.
Protesting violence against women in Paris
09/06/2026 | 4 min
A feminist collective outside Les Halles in Paris protests against violence against women. They sound a klaxon every 2.5 minutes to symbolise how often an act of violence is perpetrated against women, and deliver a speech through a megaphone to passers by.
In the first half of the recording we also hear the rubbish collection truck and workmen going about their business around the protesters.
Recorded in April 2026 by Cities and Memory.
Saint Sulpice at midday
09/06/2026 | 12 min
Paris isn't just Notre Dame when it comes to churches and cathedrals - Saint Sulpice is also really impressive, and here we listen to the pealing bells at midday, then take a walkthrough around the whole of this stunning cathedral.
Recorded in Paris, France in February 2026 by Cities and Memory.

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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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