Cities and Memory
a global field recording sound map with remixes
Cities and Memory launched on March 4, 2017 with 11 votes, #983 of 3,481 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
What it does
Global sound map of field recordings from Cities and Memory, covering over 110 countries. Explore the sound map of the world with over 5,000 sounds.
This global sound map is at the heart of the Cities and Memory project, remixing the world one sound at a time. Every point on the map contains two sounds – first, the documentary field recording of that time and place as it really was, and secondly a reimagined composition built from the original recording. In this way, you can choose to navigate the real sounds of the world, or an alternative, recomposed sound world created by the collective imagination of more than 2,500 artists – or flip between the two at leisure. The sound map covers more than 140 countries and territories with more than 8,000 sounds – and is growing all the time, as Cities and Memory continues to…from citiesandmemory.com
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