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  • Peaceful gardens in historic Mantua

    Peaceful gardens in historic Mantua
    2025/06/27
    This recording captures birdsong and locals passing through a quiet public garden in central Mantua. The recording was made on the 29th May 2012, about five minutes after a strong earthquake had struck the Emilia Romagna region, causing significant damage to the UNESCO World Heritage property of the Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande.

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
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    2 分
  • Emilia

    Emilia
    2025/06/27
    "In May 2012, two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy, causing 27 deaths and widespread damage. The events are known in Italy as the 2012 Emilia earthquakes, because they mainly affected the Emilia region.

    "The field recording captured birdsong and locals passing through a quiet public garden in central Mantua, five minutes after the Emilia earthquakes. I wanted to depict the contrast between the calmness of the Mantua gardens and the earthquakes that happened within close temporal and distance proximity of each other."

    Gardens in Mantova reimagined by Ben Hoang.
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    5 分
  • Henal mariacki

    Henal mariacki
    2025/06/25
    "The transitioning nature of the field recording made for some melodic transitioning in the background. The trumpet call ends abruptly but returns again and again."

    Krakow trumpet call reimagined by Moray Newlands.

    IMAGE: Oliszydlowski, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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    4 分
  • Hejnal Mariacki

    Hejnal Mariacki
    2025/06/25
    Probably Poland's most iconic sound, the hejnał mariacki (literally "Saint Mary's dawn") is a trumpet call that sounds every hour on the hour from the highest tower of St Mary's Church in Kraków's rynek glówny (main square).

    The bugler plays the same call four times, once in each of the cardinal directions. This tradition dates back to medieval times, when the call was used to signal the opening and closing of the city gates at dawn and dusk. It was also played to alarm citizens of fires or enemy invasion.

    The theme's abrupt end commemorates the Mongol-Tatar siege of 1241, when the trumpeter warning the city of the imminent threat was shot in the throat by an arrow mid-way through the call.

    Or so the legend goes... I made this recording a couple of months after moving to Kraków as part of a project through which I attempted to reconnect with my Polish-Jewish heritage and, in a more general sense, to explore the experience of migration through sound.

    Recorded by Alex Roth.

    IMAGE: Oliszydlowski, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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    4 分
  • In concrete corridors

    In concrete corridors
    2025/06/25
    In March 2025 we made a series of recordings in and around the Barbican Centre, with the idea of those sounds being folded back into the Observatory Station sound installation, so that the sounds of the Barbican itself become part of the stories being told by sound from around the world.

    This recording is a walkthrough of some of the exterior concrete tunnels and walkways that make up this brutalist masterpiece - footsteps, various mysterious drones, and the sounds of assorted passers-by.

    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
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    4 分
  • EC2Y 8DS

    EC2Y 8DS
    2025/06/25
    "I chose to work with a recording made at the Barbican centre in London.
    This complex has fascinated me for many years, and I have always been curious to seek out new nooks and crannies there. I took my curiosity about the place into how I approached the work.

    "The rhythmic footsteps are the core motif of the piece, even though they are not the most dominant sonic aspect, they are the anchor point from which to depart and return to.

    "The footsteps are sometimes regular and at other times at odd with themselves when I have looped and doubled up aspects of the field recording. Both this tension in the footstep rhythm and my choice and creation of sounds and shape were guided with the controversy around the Barbican itself. Some people have a lot of love for the place, and others call it the ugliest building in London, and this is interesting to me, from an anthroplogical point of view.

    "What makes us fond of, or repelled by a place, a building, an area? What resonates or repels us? I have tried to find some sonic treasures and occasionally taken something to the edge of discomfort, as a reference to this sense of conflicting tastes, subjectivity and beauty in the eye of the beholder."

    Corridors at the Barbican Centre, London reimagined by Suzi Lamb.
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    5 分
  • Train tracks

    Train tracks
    2025/06/23
    "In my area of North America, train journeys are relatively rare. Taking a train feels like a special occasion because I only have the opportunity when I’m far from home. I’ve always enjoyed the exploratory feel of train rides: a train journey feels almost like stolen time, where normal responsibilities are paused and you are given freedom to simply be, if you choose.

    "I was inspired by the F#-A train horn to create a harmonic home base of the broad key of B (be). Flute and alto flute depicts both the rhythmic train engine (with a nod to Steve Reich’s ‘Different Trains’) and the melodic way fragments of thoughts and ideas drift in and out when in a meditative state."

    Trains in Palo Alto reimagined by Margaret Fischer.
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    4 分
  • American trains

    American trains
    2025/06/23
    This recording features train horns as the trains pass by a level crossing just outside Palo Alto train station. The tonality of the train horns and the level crossing warning alarms are clearly identifiable as North American trains, and the sonic identity of the trains themselves as they pass are typical of Californian trains.

    Palo Alto is a small town and these sounds can be heard from most parts of town as trains approach a series of level crossings before arriving into Palo Alto station.

    Recorded by Colin Hunter.
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    9 分