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Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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 6,000 sounds featured on our sound map, spread over more than 120 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 http://www.citiesandmemory.com
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  • Sounds of nomadic Altay Kazakhs

    Sounds of nomadic Altay Kazakhs
    Jul 13 2024
    In Altay, Xinjiang, China, Kazakhs have lived here for hundreds of years and still maintain a nomadic lifestyle that follows the seasons. However, the process of modernization and development is changing their traditions, customs and even language.

    The younger generation is unwilling to continue the hard nomadic life, and the older generation who are gradually aging may be the last generation of nomadic Kazakhs. From now on, we will probably only be able to see the nomadic transition performances at the visitor centre.

    That's what I'm trying to keep - those sounds for the next generations. This is the second time I've spent days living with the herders in the deep mountain of Altay. In this track, we can hear the herders talking and busy footsteps of the sheep on a rock and soil pass.

    Recorded by Yang Jie.

    Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.

    For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
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    4 mins
  • Vancouver 1987

    Vancouver 1987
    Jul 13 2024
    I migrated from Stockholm, Sweden to Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1987. The cities are approximately the same size and are located on the same latitude. I was somehow expecting something similar to what I was used to. I was wrong.

    The first shock was the sound of the city of Vancouver. The noise bouncing between glass clad skyscrapers was, in my ears, extreme. And it went on around the clock. Traffic, human interaction, sirens. All very, very loud. I recorded it and sent cassettes to my friends in Sweden for evidence. Stockholm was, and still is, a comparatively quiet city with few high-rises.

    I was also very much taken by the abrupt advertising on the radio (I did not have a TV). It all sounded so North American. At the time, Swedish public television and radio had monopoly and allowed no advertising. I had grown up not knowing what it meant to have the constant drone of commercials in my life. So, yes, it was kind of a culture shock.

    I recently found some recordings I made in 1987, when I was still amazed by the sound of the radio in my new homeland. Hearing it throws me right back to being this newbie in a strange place. A decade later, I would return to Sweden only to find that as of 1993, advertising was allowed and sounded quite similar to that I heard in Canada. That too, was a bit of a culture shock.

    My sound is a time stamp of the Academy awards of 1987 and the Olympic games in Calgary 1988. I edited out the music for copyright reasons.

    Recorded in Vancouver by Eva Q Månsson.

    Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.

    For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
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    3 mins
  • EU border voices

    EU border voices
    Jul 13 2024
    On a sound research visit to the EU border of Bosnia and Herzegovina I visited and spoke to different individuals stuck in B&H to transport their voices to document an art exhibition in 2022. In this recording me and friends were welcomed by a group of people to their temporary home the so called "Family Squat" located outside of Velika Kladuša.

    There are 3-8 people sleeping in one room, carpets cover the floor, there is improvised and self-built chimneys to heat the room while its snowing outside. The windows of the house are closed with wood to keep the heat. In the other rooms there is people cooking, doing daily tasks and communication via phone to plan the next moves.

    They all went on the game already for several times, trying to cross the border to Croatia but they got pushed back brutally and illegally again to Bosnia and Herzegovina where they stay in squats, camps, forests and temporary shelter. We were shown a video of a pushback where the police attacks the people with dogs while they were sleeping in the field. Afterwards we asked for messages they would like to transport to the people inside the EU to get to know about their situation and struggles.

    Recorded in Velika Kladusa by Beat Theofried Alto Sandkühler.

    Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.

    For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
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    2 mins
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