Media enquiries
Cities and Memory are available for media interviews, questions and comment on both the Cities and Memory project and a range of sound-related issues.
For press enquiries, please email stuart AT citiesandmemory DOT com.
Press coverage
A collection of articles, news and interviews featuring Cities and Memory:
Radio interviews:
– All About Photo: Biggest ever global collaboration between photographers and sound artists launches
– Alphr: Cities and Memory lets you visit anywhere on Earth and listen to local sounds
– An Antidote to Indifference: Article on sound and memory by Cities and Memory in this Caught By The River publication.
– Athens News Agency (Greece): #StayHomeSounds – Αποτυπώνοντας τις αλλαγές των ήχων από την Covid-19
– The Atlantic: Mapping the sounds of the London Underground
– The Atlantic: What the internet sounds like
– The Atlantic CityLab: The sounds of protest are getting louder
– Atlas Obscura: Listen to the call to prayer in countries around the world
– Atlas Obscura: Mapping the sounds of political protest around the world
– Bangkok Post: Art of noise: UK project aims to save lost sounds
– BBC News: The Antarctic and Arctic sounds rarely heard before
– BBC News: Rare polar sounds released to raise climate awareness
– BBC Newsround: The Antarctic and Arctic sounds rarely heard before
– BBC Business Matters: Sounds of the snow playing guitar
– BBC Radio Oxford, Leicester, Nottingham, Scotland, Wales, Devon, Cambridge: Cities and Memory interview (listen above).
– BBC Radio 4 Today Programme: Sacred Spaces and Polar Sounds (listen above)
AFP News report on Obsolete Sounds, December 2022
– BBC World Service: The sound of the London Underground
– BBC World Service: Sacred Spaces and Protest and Politics (listen above)
– Bloomberg CityLab: How the Pandemic Changed the Urban Soundscape
– Boing Boing: Explore a library of disappearing and extinct sounds at Obsolete Sounds
– Brilliant Maps: Listen to the World: Global Sound Map from Cities and Memory
– BR Klassik (German national radio): Die Stadt als Musik (‘the city as music’ – featuring Cities and Memory and our Hamburg recordings)
– Canada Today: The Antarctic and Arctic sounds rarely heard before
– Caught By The River: Oblique Strategies project
– Caught By The River: Sacred spaces
– CBC (Canadian national radio): Cities and Memory interview on CBC Spark (10 minutes, streaming audio)
– CBC: What does a pandemic sound like? Artist maps audio from people’s daily lives
– A Closer Listen: The Chimes
– Conde Nast Traveler (Spain): El mapa de los sonidos de las ciudades en tiempos del confinamiento
– Corriere Della Sera (Italy): Coronavirus, un progetto racconta la metamorfosi sonora del nostro pianeta durante l’emergenza
– Corriere Della Sera (Italy): Il ghiaccio che canta e la foca spaziale: ecco i suoni «alieni» dei poli terrestri
– Crack Magazine: How Cities and Memory built a soundboard of global unrest
– Creative Field Recording: Remixing field recordings: Interview with Cities and Memory’s Stuart Fowkes
– Creative Field Recording: Listen to a sonic portrait of Hamburg, Germany
– Desert Star, Tucson: Collecting Sounds
– Designing Sound: Oblique Strategies
– El Mundo (Spain): ¿A qué suenan las ciudades de todo el mundo durante el confinamiento?
– Electronic Beats: This map lets you listen to sacred spaces from around the world
– Electronic Sound magazine: two-page interview feature plus CD covermount album, July 2021
– Elle Decor: Il suono della citta durante il lockdown e in una mappa interattiva da ascoltare e costruire insieme
– Elsewhere: A Journal of Place: See/Listen: Cities and Memory
– Elsewhere: A Journal of Place: Five-page Cities and Memory feature
– Euronews: Polar sound scape exhibition reveals rarely heard Arctic and Antarctic noises
– Everyday Listening: Cities and Memory
– Fast Company: This map shares the sounds of coronavirus lockdown around the world
– FieldRecording.de: Sonic tourist and sound mapper ‘On Her Majesty’s Service’ (interview)
– Firstpost (India): The city and sound: What a global survey during the pandemic could tell us about our future soundscapes
– Fisheye Magazine: « Sound photography »: symphonie visuelle
– Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil): Artistas gravam sons das cidades que ficaram desertas por causa do coronavírus
– Forbes: Is Coronavirus Reducing Noise Pollution?
– Framework Radio: Special episode about Cities and Memory
– France Musique (France): Recréer le son de l’Enfer : le projet infernal de 80 musiciens
– Gizmodo: Explore the London Underground in sound
– Google Maps Mania: Imagined soundscapes of parallel worlds
– Google Maps Mania: The sound of global protest
– Google Maps Mania: Mapping your local soundscapes
– The Guardian: Subterranean sonic blues? A journey through the first ever London Underground sound map
– The Guardian: Collection of space sounds released to mark 50 years since the moon landings – video
– The Guardian: Art project captures sound of cities during coronavirus outbreak
– Harpers Bazaar (Italy): Come cambiano le città durante e dopo il Coronavirus
– Hyperallergic: Explore the world’s sounds through a map of field recordings and remixes
– Hyperallergic: A crowd-sourced map for the protests of our time
– IFL Science: This map lets you listen to the world without human noise
– Il Sole 24 Ore: Creare le collonne sonore da una fotografia
– The Island Review: Utopia of sound
– Japan Today: Art of noise: UK project aims to save lost sounds
– La Stampa (Italy): Coronavirus, che rumore fa un pandemia? Lo svela una mappa
– Laughing Squid: A collection of obsolete and disappearing sounds
– Le Figaro: À Londres, un collectionneur de sons entend enregistrer l’époque
– Liverpool Echo: Sounds of Albert Dock, Cavern Club and other Liverpool landmarks preserved and turned into music
– Londonist: What does your tube station sound like?
– Londonist: A map of protests across London with added sound
– Londonist: This man has turned Big Ben’s final bongs into a 17-minute track
– London Sound Survey: Guest post from Cities & Memory
– Marie Claire Italia: Le colonne della città
– Mashable: This audio project maps the sounds of protest around the world
– Mental Floss: Experience the stop-by-stop sounds of the London Underground
– Music Teacher: Tech reviews 2022
– National Post: From birdsong to cheers, sound map shows how coronavirus is changing cities
– NBC News: Sounds of our time? People around the world share recordings during coronavirus lockdowns
– New Scientist: Bird flu in mammals, the cause of sunquakes, and the entropy of consciousness – the latest news in science
– New Scientist: Polar Sounds podcast: Rare underwater noises from the Arctic and Antarctic
– New York Times: The 19 Best Gifts for Frequent Travelers
– Noema Magazine: Dialing Back The Noise In The City Of Din
– Ouest-France: Depuis le début de la pandémie, le bruit qu’émet le monde n’est plus le même, écoutez-le
– The Paper (China): 专访|“城市与记忆”发起人：用声音记录疫情中的故事
– Publico (Portugal): O que se ouve em quarentena? Projecto reúne os sons do silêncio na pandemia
– Quartz: Listen to the sounds that make up the Indian religiosphere
– The Quietus: Protest sound archive launches
– The Quietus: Listen: new sound recording project
– The Quietus: Sounds Of Space Collected On New Project
– Resonance FM: Special programme on our Prison Songs project
– Resonance FM: Five-hour special on our Protest and Politics project
– Reuters: From birdsong to cheers, sound map shows how coronavirus is changing cities
– SecretLDN: Listen to the sound of the underground with this interactive Tube map
– Slate.com: The deafening sound of the internet
– Smithsonian Magazine: Listen to sounds of sacred spaces around the world
– Smithsonian Magazine: This is what global dissent sounds like
– Sonic Terrain: Cities & Memory
– Sounding Out: SO! Amplifies: Cities & Memory
– Stray Landings: Cities and Memory – Dada 100 Years On
– Stray Landings: Sacred Spaces podcast
– Studio.se (Sweden): Obsolete Sounds – biblioteket för försvinnande och utrotade ljud
– Sunday Times: ST Travel Meets… city soundscape enthusiast Stuart Fowkes
– Time Out: Explore the sounds of London with this audio tube map
– Time Out Bangkok: 8 podcast episodes about Thailand you should listen to
– Today (Singapore): From birdsong to cheers, sound map shows how Covid-19 is changing cities
– Travel Weekly: Travel’s undervalued soundtrack
– The Verge: This beautiful project creates soundtracks for photographs
– The Verge: This map lets you hear what the world sounds like without humans
– The Verge: Check out this library of obsolete sounds, including plenty of clips of old tech
– Vice Motherboard: Sound of the Underground: an audio Tube map of London
– Washington Post: Even when you can’t travel, you can still bring the sounds of a far-off city to you
– The Week (India): The sounds of silence
– The Wire: Sound map of the London Underground network launched
– The Wire: Mapping the sounds of protest
– The Wire: Cities And Memory mark 50 years since moon landings
– The Wire: Unofficial Channels: Polar Sounds feature
– Wired: This is the sound of global protest, from Trump to Brexit
– Wired Italia: L’artista che colleziona i suoni del nostro mondo
– Yahoo! News: Art of noise: UK project aims to save lost sounds
– Yahoo! News: Polar sound scape exhibition reveals rarely heard Arctic and Antarctic noises