Cities and Memory

Calling Oxfordshire artists, bands and musicians - this project is for you! We're teaming up with @museumofoxford.bsky.social to present a unique live show bringing together the sounds of Oxford itself with the talent of its musicians and artists: citiesandmemory.com/sounds-city-...

🚨 Open call! 🚨 We're looking for artists and musicians from all backgrounds to take part in the 2026 Autumn Project! 🍄🎧 The project is open until 13 December, and open to all. citiesandmemory.com/2026/10/autu...

If you read one thing today, make it this - fascinating read about the incredible sound work of the NGO Earshot and Lawrence Abu Hamdan: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Our latest Artist Spotlight is on Bristol-based composer and musician Tim Saul, a member of hip hop duo Earthling who’s inspired by Sakamoto, samplers and seagulls. Read the full interview: citiesandmemory.com/2026/03/tim-...

"I recall listening to the hums in my house as a child, and other times escaping into some of my favourite soundscapes, wind in the treetops, waves at the beach, rain falling on leaves, or a tent." Our Artist Spotlight turns on Toronto musician Michelle Breslin: citiesandmemory.com/2025/07/arti...

"I recall listening to the hums in my house as a child, and other times escaping into some of my favourite soundscapes, wind in the treetops, waves at the beach, rain falling on leaves, or a tent." Our Artist Spotlight turns on Toronto musician Michelle Breslin: citiesandmemory.com/2025/07/arti...

Thanks to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for having Cities and Memory on her BBC 6music show this weekend - it was great to chat about disappearing sounds and the relationships between sound and memory, and spin a few favourite tunes. Listen again here (from c. 1hr in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We’re super excited to bring you our latest open call - we’re working with Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre and artist Edmund de Waal, and we’d love to invite you to join a new commission called Sanctuary. This is a limited paid commission with just 20 spaces: citiesandmemory.com/sanctuary/

Thanks to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for having Cities and Memory on her BBC 6music show this weekend - it was great to chat about disappearing sounds and the relationships between sound and memory, and spin a few favourite tunes. Listen again here (from c. 1hr in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Fellow musicians,consider this…

Broadcasting very shortly with Stuart Fowkes from @citiesandmemory.bsky.social #obsoletesounds #defunctsounds #lostsounds #retrosounds #soundarchive #citiesandmemory #fieldrecording #audio www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Brilliant to hear @cerysmatthews.bsky.social speaking with Stuart from @citiesandmemory.bsky.social It’s been an absolute joy being involved these past 4 years. My last piece is linked below. A reworking of a distribution box in Athens. audioboom.com/posts/890755...

Thanks to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for hosting Cities and Memory, our collection of sounds and our musical tracks of choice on today’s @bbc6music.bsky.social show. It was a blast! 🎧💕

Hope you have had a lovely #SummerSunday! This song was originally written for the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Autumn Project. Using a field recording from Italy, it depicts early morning in a foreign city with the quiet sounds of people living lives so similar-yet-different from your own.

Thanks to @wallpapermag.bsky.social for an interview filled with super interesting questions, going in depth on our mission to “turn the world’s everyday sounds into a global artwork”. www.wallpaper.com/travel/citie...

Can you spare ten minutes to have your say on how Cities and Memory is doing, and where we take the project next? Every summer we run a community survey to ask you all how you use Cities and Memory and how we can make it better. Please fill it in if you can! 💕 bit.ly/CMsurvey26

Can you spare ten minutes to have your say on how Cities and Memory is doing, and where we take the project next? Every summer we run a community survey to ask you all how you use Cities and Memory and how we can make it better. Please fill it in if you can! 💕 bit.ly/CMsurvey26

I created a new work for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social. It is features the electric guitar and a field recording from the Hackberry General Store on Route 66, which has been turned into ambient, droney goodness You can listen to the full work at: audioboom.com/posts/891431...

Happy to be part of @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring Project. Great collection of filed recordings and reimagined works from them. Here's a link to my piece map.citiesandmemory.com/maps/point/3... original recording of St Sulpice in #paris #newmusic #experimentalmusic #fieldrecordings

Reminded this morning of the music we made for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social - what is essentially a dub techno track (+ versions) built entirely from recordings of the glass factory in Murano, Venice. It's a bit of an outlier in our catalogue! theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/glass-...

Oslo Marathon a capella signers chanting field recording remix for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social is up. Includes link to podcast platforms if that helps audioboom.com/posts/891402...

Come and have a listen to the 138 compositions for the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring Project 2026. Mine is knocking around in the Aegean area if you want to listen but why not click around and see what people have done. citiesandmemory.com/spring-proje...

@citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring Project release alert. citiesandmemory.com/spring-proje...

My collab with yamo aka Momose Yasunaga for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social yamo: "I created a collage of sounds-incorporating the exotic resonance of bells and the lyrical whisper of the wind as it drifts through narrow alleyways." music.youtube.com/watch?v=j-iF...

I'm happy to contribute a new piece to the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring 2026 Project. "the road was there" is a piece for electric guitar and electronics that blends drone, ambient, and field recording sounds. Give it a listen below! audioboom.com/posts/891431...

Now released via @citiesandmemory.bsky.social a #newmusic track from me featuring audio from Gare Du Nord in Paris with piped fake #birdsong. 'This is not a simulation?' re-imagines the audio recording into a #surreal and #glitchy #ambient #soundscape. audioboom.com/posts/891132...

ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for our Metropolis project! 🏙️🤖 The first crowdsourced soundtrack to this cinematic landmark marks its 100th anniversary as we bring the sonic techniques of 2027 to this 1927 icon. There are 72 spaces on the project - find out more and apply: citiesandmemory.com/metropolis

ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for our Metropolis project! 🏙️🤖 The first crowdsourced soundtrack to this cinematic landmark marks its 100th anniversary as we bring the sonic techniques of 2027 to this 1927 icon. There are 72 spaces on the project - find out more and apply: citiesandmemory.com/metropolis

The amazing NTS Radio are running a one-hour special on our Century of Sounds project with @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social. You can tune in live at 12pm UK time on Friday 22 May on NTS 2: www.nts.live/shows/guests...

Open call for artists! 🤖 Our latest major project is the first ever crowdsourced soundtrack to the all-time classic film Metropolis. To mark the 100th anniversary, we are inviting artists to contribute to a special soundtrack with more than 1,000 combinations. citiesandmemory.com/metropolis/

Open call, fellow musicians! Get involved! ✒️