Fascinating micro-sounds from Coral Beach, when tiny, slow and quiet waves on this unique beach made of tiny stone, coral and shell fragments creates a beautiful "whooshing" sound with every pass.
Recorded on Coral Beach on the Isle of Skye by Cities and Memory, April 2025.
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Inside the wall of a concrete bunker
Recording inside an open air vent inside the two metre-thick wall of the concrete bunker building that forms the Boros Collection. The space has a fascinating past as a shelter, a prison for political prisoners, and a techno and sex club - and now it hosts a conceptual art exhibition.
The sound captures both the muffled sounds of museum-goers on one side, and the passage of air and the sounds from Berlin outside on the other.
Recorded by Cities and Memory, September 2025.
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Widerhall - piano in the hall
"Taking Brian Eno's chopped tape ambient recordings as inspiration, I chopped up sampled loops of Chopin's 'Nocture C sharp in minor,' creating long and short sequences that I then initially synced, before letting them run in and out of time with each other, gently applying FX along the way.
"The field recording inspired this notion of a paid session pianist sitting amongst the chaos and noise of a grand museum, playing to no one, ignored and quietly letting themselves get a little weird just for their own amusement."
Boros Collection soundscape, Berlin reimagined by Dominic Palmer.
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Boat engines roar, Loch Coruisk
Aboard a tourist boat from Loch Coruisk to Elgol, with different tones, speeds and intensity of engine noise blending with the sound of waves.
Recorded on the Isle of Skye by Cities and Memory, April 2025.
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Village, QinQiang opera and birds
A quiet and nice village besides Yellow River at Lanzhou City. QinQiang opera from the loud speaker in the village and this is very local sound. Happy birds are busy on working. What a wonderful soundscape.
Recorded by Digimonk.
IMAGE: Sigismund von Dobschütz, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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