{"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":"Underland","slug":"underland","published_at":"2026-06-12T07:58:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987/underland","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8915852","audio_url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8915852.mp3?modified=1781251156&sid=2138625&source=rss","summary":"\"This is my second attempt at producing a piece of music using the source sample. The original sample contains a clean, distinct loop of tribal drumming, and at first I constructed a piece based on that loop, with rhythmic and melodic elements stacked, and arranged into an EDM piece. \"That was a bit too obvious, so instead I took the loop, deconstructed it, and applied pitch-shifting, filtering and other processing to elements to come up with the low-frequency sounds (at 52s, and later in the track) as well as the various bleeps and glitches that run through the track (the original loop - in a processed form - is also in there, reversed and pushed back in the mix). \"The other elements, sections and movements grew out of those treated sounds organically; I didn't plan in any great detail how I wanted it to sound, and serendipity definitely played a part in how it turned out, but it is influenced to a degree by the book Underland by Robert MacFarlane (hence the title) - I wanted to convey some of the imagery and concepts in that work (deep time, and the physical heaviness of the world beneath our feet), and used low-frequency and heavily reverbed sounds, as well as a slow tempo (55bpm) to create a sense of drama, depth and space. \"More of my music can be found here: https://filmclub1.bandcamp.com .\" Drumming in a park in Hannover reimagined by Mark Gordon (Film Club).","meta_description":"\"This is my second attempt at producing a piece of music using the source sample. The original sample contains a clean, distinct loop of tribal drumming,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":388,"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/underland/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/underland.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}