{"podcast":{"title":"Cities and Memory - remixing the world","slug":"cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987","podcast_index_feed_id":942987,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/2138625.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/2138625","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/39258170.png","author":"Cities and Memory","episode_count":500,"summary":"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","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T18:17:51.629693+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987"},"episode":{"title":"Hippos at night","slug":"hippos-at-night","published_at":"2026-06-02T21:10:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987/hippos-at-night","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8911097","audio_url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8911097.mp3?modified=1780438010&sid=2138625&source=rss","summary":"Recorded in the shallows of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. The microphones sit low, really close to the hippos resting in the mud. What defines this recording is mass. Around fifteen hippos, mostly stationary, but never still. Their presence registers through pressure, slow exhalations, submerged movement, and low frequency vocalisations that travel through both air and water. The surface carries subtle detail: displacement, ripples, contact. The sound is continuous but not dense, it breathes, expands, contracts. Humidity affects everything. High frequency detail softens, and distant sounds fold into the background. Insects form a constant upper layer, almost static like, but alive. There is no clear focal point. The recording holds a distributed weight, multiple bodies moving slowly, sharing space. Recorded by Rafael Diogo.","meta_description":"Recorded in the shallows of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. The microphones sit low, really close to the hippos resting in the mud. What defines th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":548,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987/episodes/hippos-at-night/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987/hippos-at-night.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}