Thanks to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for having Cities and Memory on her BBC 6music show this weekend - it was great to chat about disappearing sounds and the relationships between sound and memory, and spin a few favourite tunes. Listen again here (from c. 1hr in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We’re super excited to bring you our latest open call - we’re working with Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre and artist Edmund de Waal, and we’d love to invite you to join a new commission called Sanctuary. This is a limited paid commission with just 20 spaces: citiesandmemory.com/sanctuary/

Thanks to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for having Cities and Memory on her BBC 6music show this weekend - it was great to chat about disappearing sounds and the relationships between sound and memory, and spin a few favourite tunes. Listen again here (from c. 1hr in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Cities and Memory@citiesandmemory.bsky.social · last wk.

We’re super excited to bring you our latest open call - we’re working with Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre and artist Edmund de Waal, and we’d love to invite you to join a new commission called Sanctuary. This is a limited paid commission with just 20 spaces: citiesandmemory.com/sanctuary/

We’re super excited to bring you our latest open call - we’re working with Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre and artist Edmund de Waal, and we’d love to invite you to join a new commission called Sanctuary. This is a limited paid commission with just 20 spaces: citiesandmemory.com/sanctuary/

Broadcasting very shortly with Stuart Fowkes from @citiesandmemory.bsky.social #obsoletesounds #defunctsounds #lostsounds #retrosounds #soundarchive #citiesandmemory #fieldrecording #audio www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 6 Music - Cerys Matthews, Play It Again Sam: Defunct Sounds Revisited

Cerys explores lost sounds with Stuart Fowkes and Jacqui Garrad, from phones to computers.

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Brilliant to hear @cerysmatthews.bsky.social speaking with Stuart from @citiesandmemory.bsky.social It’s been an absolute joy being involved these past 4 years. My last piece is linked below. A reworking of a distribution box in Athens. audioboom.com/posts/890755...

Earthed

"The sound does opt convey a sense of space, but the location informed my choice. I took the original sound of the distribution box, chopped it up and added a modulator to change the pitch of the...

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Listening to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social interviewing Stuart Fowkes of Cities and Memory talk about recordings from his sound archive and why certain noises can unlock such vivid memories of places, technologies and moments, and the smoke alarm goes off as the toast burns! citiesandmemory.com

Cities and Memory - global sound map, field recording and sound art

Cities and Memory is a global collaborative sound art, sound map & field recording project - remixing the world, one sound at a time.

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Thanks to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for hosting Cities and Memory, our collection of sounds and our musical tracks of choice on today’s @bbc6music.bsky.social show. It was a blast! 🎧💕

Hope you have had a lovely #SummerSunday! This song was originally written for the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Autumn Project. Using a field recording from Italy, it depicts early morning in a foreign city with the quiet sounds of people living lives so similar-yet-different from your own.

Passed Recordings@passedrecordings.bsky.social · 2w ago

Morning, Far From Home by Ed Herbers, peaceful and serene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ao...

“For me music is all about the combination of a story being told and the emotions that are invoked, like in opera or music theatre, I think I need a story to hang the music on.” citiesandmemory.com/2025/06/arti...

Thanks to @wallpapermag.bsky.social for an interview filled with super interesting questions, going in depth on our mission to “turn the world’s everyday sounds into a global artwork”. www.wallpaper.com/travel/citie...

Can you spare ten minutes to have your say on how Cities and Memory is doing, and where we take the project next? Every summer we run a community survey to ask you all how you use Cities and Memory and how we can make it better. Please fill it in if you can! 💕 bit.ly/CMsurvey26

Can you spare ten minutes to have your say on how Cities and Memory is doing, and where we take the project next? Every summer we run a community survey to ask you all how you use Cities and Memory and how we can make it better. Please fill it in if you can! 💕 bit.ly/CMsurvey26

I created a new work for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social. It is features the electric guitar and a field recording from the Hackberry General Store on Route 66, which has been turned into ambient, droney goodness You can listen to the full work at: audioboom.com/posts/891431...

Happy to be part of @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring Project. Great collection of filed recordings and reimagined works from them. Here's a link to my piece map.citiesandmemory.com/maps/point/3... original recording of St Sulpice in #paris #newmusic #experimentalmusic #fieldrecordings

Proud to be part of the Spring Project for Cities and Memory. Find out more and listen to field recordings and derived compositions: citiesandmemory.com/spring-proje... Find my track, Neyrit, here: map.citiesandmemory.com/maps/point/3... @citiesandmemory.bsky.social #fieldrecording #soundtrack

Reminded this morning of the music we made for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social - what is essentially a dub techno track (+ versions) built entirely from recordings of the glass factory in Murano, Venice. It's a bit of an outlier in our catalogue! theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/glass-...

Glass Factory, by The Leaf Library

3 track album

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Oslo Marathon a capella signers chanting field recording remix for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social is up. Includes link to podcast platforms if that helps audioboom.com/posts/891402...

Don't stop me now!

As a long-distance run, with the participants being over 95% women, takes part through the centre of Oslo, a group of female a cappella singers stands by the roadside, singing songs in English ("...

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Come and have a listen to the 138 compositions for the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring Project 2026. Mine is knocking around in the Aegean area if you want to listen but why not click around and see what people have done. citiesandmemory.com/spring-proje...

Spring Project 2026: reimagined sounds from the Cities and Memory community

Explore the reimagined sounds and field recordings from our tenth anniversary Spring Project for artists all over the world.

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@citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring Project release alert. citiesandmemory.com/spring-proje...

Spring Project 2026: reimagined sounds from the Cities and Memory community

Explore the reimagined sounds and field recordings from our tenth anniversary Spring Project for artists all over the world.

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My collab with yamo aka Momose Yasunaga for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social yamo: "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." music.youtube.com/watch?v=j-iF...

Static twilight

YouTube video by Cities and Memory

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I'm happy to contribute a new piece to the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring 2026 Project. "the road was there" is a piece for electric guitar and electronics that blends drone, ambient, and field recording sounds. Give it a listen below! audioboom.com/posts/891431...

The road was there

"T'he road was there' uses a field recording made by Mark Wilden. The recording is of the Hackberry General Store, a famous road stop on Route 66 in Arizona, USA. I was enamored with the ...

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Now released via @citiesandmemory.bsky.social a #newmusic track from me featuring audio from Gare Du Nord in Paris with piped fake #birdsong. 'This is not a simulation?' re-imagines the audio recording into a #surreal and #glitchy #ambient #soundscape. audioboom.com/posts/891132...

This is not a simulation?

"‘This is not a simulation?’ - raises the question what is real, am I dreaming, are we in an alternate reality?

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How did fence posts end up being played at the Olympics opening ceremony? @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social talks us through the story of the wonderful aluphone, and how it encourages us to think of sound as a food diet.

I made this piece for the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring Project using a recording from inside of the gate to Auschwitz II, Birkenau made by by Anders Vinjar. audioboom.com/posts/890839...

Swallows

"There are so many extraordinary moments in Claude Lanzmann’s nine hour documentary, Shoah but it’s the interviews with the railway workers and the train drivers that helped facilitate the horror...

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ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for our Metropolis project! 🏙️🤖 The first crowdsourced soundtrack to this cinematic landmark marks its 100th anniversary as we bring the sonic techniques of 2027 to this 1927 icon. There are 72 spaces on the project - find out more and apply: citiesandmemory.com/metropolis

ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for our Metropolis project! 🏙️🤖 The first crowdsourced soundtrack to this cinematic landmark marks its 100th anniversary as we bring the sonic techniques of 2027 to this 1927 icon. There are 72 spaces on the project - find out more and apply: citiesandmemory.com/metropolis

The amazing NTS Radio are running a one-hour special on our Century of Sounds project with @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social. You can tune in live at 12pm UK time on Friday 22 May on NTS 2: www.nts.live/shows/guests...

Just 1️⃣ month left to enter your submission to Ways of Listening ❤️🎧 Here, Evelyn and Stuart talk about the amazing submissions we’ve already received (many of which are on display at City Lit) and why we’re so excited about where this project might take the conversation about listening: