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In Vilnius we were grateful that the Black Ceramics Centre welcomed us into their studio for a behind the scenes close recording session of their manufacturing processes. Here, Ieva Paukstyte is kneading together a blend of wet and dry…
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Lithuania clay blues

October 26, 2026 · 3 min

"The original recording is processed through a series of tuned resonators and combined with granular based background sound." Vilnius black ceramics kneading reimagined by Wolfgang Ludewig / Radialfilm.
Walking to pasture

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I walk behind the flock as the ewes leave the barn after the morning milking. A lamb gets separated from its mother; she hears its plaintive baaing and comes back to find it. Down the road the shepherd opens the shed where the goats spend…
Street food in Chinatown

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Listen to the clanging of a pans and cutlery as a Pad Thai is prepared in Chinatown, Bangkok. Recorded by Jake Edwards.
Aboard the U-bahn to Kroepcke

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Aboard the U-bahn in Hannover, travelling to Kroepcke, leaving the station, close-up recording of the escalators, sounds of fellow passengers talking as they leave the station. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
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" I used Jake Edwards’ field recording from Chinatown, Bangkok, capturing the sounds of pots and cutlery during the preparation of Pad Thai. I transformed these everyday sounds through cuts, repetitions and effects, combining them with…
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"I decided to work with this sound because it reminds me as a kid my easter and summer holidays at my village. "A balance between the reality of the location and a musical atmospheric memory of it. "The spatial decay reverb and the…
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October 26, 2026 · 7 min

"A recording of the U-Bahn in Hanover—a contemporary sonic trace of a place linked to Greek migration to Germany during the 1960s and 1970s. A recording from a *taverna* featuring Greek popular songs, which at times remain recognizable and…

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About the show

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