Departing from Jeddah – a pre-flight supplication
Pre-flight announcements are different all over the world, and as well as the differences from airline to airline, there’s a cultural specificity
Remixing the world, one sound at a time
Cities and Memory
A global, collaborative sound project
Cities and Memory is a global, collaborative sound art and mapping project that remixes the world, one sound at a time. The project covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000 sounds, and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
Every field recording in the project has been recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world to create a new, alternative world of sound – you can listen via the sound map or our podcast.
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Our latest sounds
Magnetic levitation in Shanghai
The maglev train in Shanghai is the fastest commercial electric train in the world, with a cruising speed of 431 km/h, with
Travelling through Russia – remixed
Our recent project Until We Travel featured some incredible sounds from voyages across the world’s biggest country – Russia’s railway network is,