{"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":"Once upon a time in Lazio","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-lazio","published_at":"2026-06-03T20:59:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987/once-upon-a-time-in-lazio","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8911948","audio_url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8911948.mp3?modified=1780520384&sid=2138625&source=rss","summary":"\"A surreal discovery in a deserted motorway service station in Lazio. Behind the gas pumps stands a small, post-modern chapel, empty and silent. Inside, hidden low-fi speakers broadcast a bizarre loop of farm animals and distorted Christmas carols. The recording captures the haunting reverb of this lonely, sacred space, where kitsch sounds and motorway melancholy collide in a glitchy, suburban liturgy. \"To respond to this recording, I wanted to preserve its surreal, absurd and almost filmic character. The scene felt like something from a strange theatre production or an abandoned movie set, where familiar sounds take on an unsettling, dreamlike quality against the hum of the road. To capture this feeling I used a piano-led approach, collaging harmonic and melodic sounds from the recording and using pauses and space. Rather than filling the sonic landscape, I wanted to create room for the atmosphere of the original recording. I was reminded of Samuel Beckett and his use of absurdity, repetition and space in writing this piece. I aimed to use the theatrical strangeness of the recording while leaving space for its strangeness and melancholy to linger.\" Italian autogrill nativity reimagined by Laura Hills.","meta_description":"\"A surreal discovery in a deserted motorway service station in Lazio. Behind the gas pumps stands a small, post-modern chapel, empty and silent. Inside, h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":246,"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/once-upon-a-time-in-lazio/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/once-upon-a-time-in-lazio.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}