The jingling of cowbells, the bleating of goats and the whispering voice of the shepherd during milking at a family farmyard in Cercados de Araña, a living testimony of the sustainable living practices of a rural family from the area. Recording by Marina Díaz Medina, president of the Asociación de Propietarios Los Cercados. Part of the participatory sound mapping project "Voices and Sounds of the Sacred Mountains", by the Union of Associations of the Biosphere Reserve of Gran Canaria.
Cercados de Arana (Andy Lyon reimagining)
2026/05/16 | 15 mins.
"My approach was to explore various parts of the recording through the use of destructive looping, granular synthesis and sequencing to create a layered piece that moves through aspects of noise, drone, tape loops and experimental. "The piece was live recorded on an iPhone with automation of some effect parameters, playing instruments and adjusting effects." Goat milking in Cercados de Arana reimagined by Andy Lyon.
Clocks, pigeons, song, automata
2026/05/15 | 6 mins.
"In the spirit of the original piece I combined it with my recordings of clocks and automata and music boxes, my daughter singing with pigeons, and an evening birdsong chorus in Aldeburgh to create a synthesis of the mechanical and the environment." Museum of Automata, Lyon reimagined by Mary Hooper. IMAGE: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons
The future champion
2026/05/15 | 3 mins.
A recording from Number One Court at the famous Wimbledon tennis championship as Barbora Krecjikova plays against Danielle Collins in a tense match. Krecjikova would go on not only to win this match, but to be crowned Wimbledon champion just a few days after this match. Collins 1-5 Krecjikova, second set, 8 July 2024 recorded by Cities and Memory.
As the ball bounces
2026/05/15 | 4 mins.
"I composed this piece using guitar and effects pedals plus Ipad instruments to create metaphorical sounds of bouncing, spinning, sliding tennis balls. "The bouncing beats support the progress of the match even during the quieter moments as the players steady their nerves. The musical notes represent tennis balls hit with topspin, deftly dropped, lobbed or craftily sliced with varied pace all before an appreciative audience." Wimbledon ladies' singles match reimagined by Tom Thompson.
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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