Cities and Memory - remixing the world

"We all have experiences of storms to a greater or lesser extent. When I first heard the recording of the storm in the Moroccan Agafay Desert, I started thinking about the times I had been in a storm. From dramatic storms across central Australia, monsoons in South-east Asia or lightning storms across the sea at my home of Portobello, Edinburgh. However, I kept coming back to the storms I experienced as a young child growing up in Derby. I have vivid memories of getting headaches just before a storm came and then my sisters and I changing into our swimming costumes as the storm hit so we could run around the garden in the rain.
"To put it simply, I wanted ‘Children of the Storm’ to reflect my memory of these times, getting excited by the thunder and lightning, as first the wind would blow covering us with leaves and dirt and then dancing under the trees in the pouring rain getting soaked to the bone!
"The field recording runs throughout the whole song emphasising the excitement and anticipation we felt as the thunder, lightning and rain came."
Agafay desert storm reimagined by Simon Holmes.

This is a field recording of a storm in the Agafay desert in Morocco. Listen to the sounds of the rain pitter pattering and the loud frightening thunder rumble, accompanied by birds tweeting in the background. 
Recorded by Jake Edwards.

"What ultimately happened to flight KL1760 Bremen-Paris...?
"You hear the flight announcement at the airport, but things quickly spiral out of control. You also hear a reworking of the sound in the Musique Concrete style. A reporter's voice covering an attack in Paris, cinematic sound, and music building to a climax. A lingering Big Bang strikes the listener deep in the ears.
"The whole piece was composed in "old tape style" using a few microphones, a homemade oscillator bank, a piezo soundbox, a trumpet, and a violin.
"Mixed and remastered in the box in Audacity and Fluss."
Bremen airport soundscape reimagined by La Chambre Sonore.

Binaural recording of ambience in a mostly quiet terminal at Bremen Airport Hans Koschnick, with frequent announcements in both German and English. 
Recorded by Cities and Memory.

This recording is from the beginning of 2025. I made the recording thru my open window, at the place I'm staying in Berlin (Kreuzberg neighbourhood). There are many church bells in this neighborhood. It's very distinctive to hear the bells in this area.
Recorded by Kathleen Judge.