Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, with more than 8,000 sounds across more than 140 countries and territories worldwide.

Even more importantly, we are a global community of more than 2,500 sound artists, field recordists and musicians, connected by a love of sound and creating new forms of listening.

With the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time, thousands of field recordings are reimagined by our global community of sound artists and musicians to create an entirely new way to experience the world.

Cities and Memory is completely open to anyone in the world to take part.

Sound is at the heart of everything we do – we bring together the art of field recording and the practice of sound recording, and combine it in unique ways with remix culture and sound art to create something truly new.

If you love sound, as a recordist, an artist or as a listener, you’ll find something to love here.

There are lots of ways to experience our huge collection of sounds. As well as the sound player above, our global sound map is at the heart of the project, allowing you to explore the world through its sounds.

You can also subscribe to our podcast to hear all our new sounds first, download album compilations from our sound projects, immerse yourself in ambient sounds, or immerse yourself in our sonic guides to some of the world’s most iconic cities.

Our global sound map is at the centre of the project – here, you can find more than 8,000 field recordings and compositions, covering 140 countries and territories from every continent on Earth.

More than that, it’s unlike any other sound map in the world.

Every location features two sounds – first, the field recording of that place and time as it is, and second a reimagined composition built from that recording (which we call the “memory” sound).

You can navigate the world through the documentary, “real” field recordings, or via the collective imagination of thousands of artists – or flip freely between the two.

Alongside the central Cities and Memory project and our ongoing, ever-expanding global sound map, Cities and Memory is the home of global collaborative sound projects, bringing hundreds of artists together to explore aspects of sound in detail.

Among our dozen of sound projects have been the first ever collections of the sounds of protest and social activism, the sounds of human migration, the sounds of the polar seas or the sounds of UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Cities and Memory is completely open to anyone in the world who would like to take part, whether you’re a sound artist, musician, or sound recordist (professional or amateur!).

You can submit a field recording of any kind to the project, or if you’re an artist you can access our sound database for a recording to reimagine.

Find out more about some of the artists who are part of the Cities and Memory community in our Artist Spotlight series, and see a more comprehensive list of contributors.

To connect directly with other artist who are part of the project, join the Cities and Memory WhatsApp community.