"This recording felt introspective, reflective and meditative and the Indonesian chant took me back to Bali, where I had just been in April 2025. I used some recordings I took in Bali such as a dawn chorus and placed birds and rustles in the wider stereo field. I recorded myself playing the flute, basing the melody on the chant, which is woven throughout the piece."

reimagined by Sarah McRuvie.

There are various insects and birds in Rumah Tangga while the space is filled with gardens. During the morning time, there used to be a 'sholawat' (a praise to God from a nearby mosque) until noon.

Because of the vast lands, the megaphone sound from the mosque sprawls nicely throughout the area. The sound of the inhabitants gives a calm and soothing feeling. I love to wake up early in the morning to feel grateful for the aural sensation and warmth of the sunshine. I was sitting on my bed, behind my recorder, and enjoying the moment.

Recorded in Leuwinanggung, Depok City, Indonesia by Mira Rizki Kurnia.

"I found inspiration for this piece within the first few seconds of listening to the recording, it quite literally leapt out at me (Pardon the pun), a very distinctive rhythm, I quickly wrote a riff that followed the rhythm and made it the focal point of this piece with it reappearing throughout, some very chaotic sections (similar to the hopping of a frog). I used guitar amps on a lot of the frog sounds that I'd chopped out of the originally recording to try and make them a little palatable but also still resemble a frog, made some cool effects using chopped up frog sound, lots of fun with this one!"

Frogs in Varka, Greece reimagined by Gary Pitt.

"One night the frogs of Varka village were improvising!"

Recorded in Varka, Greece by Agapi Zarda.

The original sample was resampled, with a lot of treatments. Guitar samples were added, as well as synth and keyboards sounds. The idea was to end up with an ambient piece in which you would still hear the original atmosphere. The piece was mastered by Fabric Decay, an electronic / experimental artist from Kyiv, Ukraine.

Kelvingrove museum, Scotland reimagined by Abstrakt Lake.

IMAGE: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The atmosphere of the Kelvingrove art museum in Glasgow. People walking, talking, children playing. The amazing reverberation of the building makes steps sound a bit like treated percussion, at times. Minimum editing (fade in/out and EQ).

Recorded by Balthazar Klimt.

IMAGE: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The most striking feature of the original field recording is dozens of motorbikes and scooters zooming past and dodging their way through the pedestrians. Throughout the day when it's busier they can only pass very slowly, but with sparser crowds at night they rip past us on both sides.

This composition brings to life some of the energy of the city of Marrakesh by night, with the instrumentation highlighting the buzz and busyness on all sides. It's about absorbing the city and feeling energised by it, rather than drained.

The motorbike recordings punctuate each turn of phrase, and no motorbike sound is used twice - there are 20 separate bike passes from the recording isolated and used as part of the flow of the composition.

Bab Doukkala streetscape reimagined by Cities and Memory.

Marrakesh, Morocco - at 9.30pm in the Bab Doukkala district, the city is full of life.

Shops are open and bustling, the area is mostly locals and few tourists, but the most remarkable thing is the sheer number of scooters and motorbikes passing - in the space of just a few minutes, more than 20 motorbikes zip and slalom past us in the narrow alleyway, zig-zagging between pedestrians. You can hear it all in this recording.

Recorded by Cities and Memory, January 2026.