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Cities and Memory, and its founder and sound artist Stuart Fowkes, partner with brands and organisations to put a creative use of sound at the heart of their communications.

 

Here are some of the ways in which Stuart can work with you, either via the Cities and Memory project or as an individual sound artist and practitioner with 20 years of experience and expertise in working creatively with sound.

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CITIES AND MEMORY PROJECT

PARTNERSHIPS & PHYSICAL INSTALLATIONS

Direct partnerships with organisations and brands to develop projects, installations or activations that use sound to bring to life either a specific campaign, or a brand or organisation as a whole. Projects and installations can either be designed for a specific target audience or for a wider consumer/general public audience.

Previous similar partnerships have been developed with C40 Cities (a video and installation at the global C40 conference in Buenos Aires); the Alfred Wegener Institute (taking the sounds of the polar seas and making that data accessible to a wider public engagement audience); the University of Oxford (reimagining the debate around human migration using sound as a lens), Exodus Travels (using sound to reflect the brand’s desire to embody the spirit of adventure) and Dreamland Margate (exploring the role sound plays in one of the world’s oldest theme parks ahead of its major relaunch).

ONLINE SOUND PLATFORMS

Having created one of the world’s biggest sound projects from scratch, Stuart is an expert on immersive online experiences that use sound to engage and inspire, and can work with you to develop a bespoke online sound experience that works for your most important audiences.

GLOBAL SOUND SOURCING

The Cities and Memory global field recording community is more than 2,000 strong, with artists all over the world, allowing us to develop collaborative projects with brands and organisations that are site-specific and tailored for your audiences, but also are creatively rewarding for a global community of participating artists.

 

Recent similar partnerships have been developed with the Barbican Centre (sourcing 300 themed, bespoke field recordings for an installation in its Feel The Sound exhibition) and creative sound and light agency Ithaca (bespoke soundscapes from locations 5,000 miles away from the proposed location).

WORK WITH STUART

STUART FOWKES, SOUND ARTIST & FIELD RECORDIST

SOUND AND FIELD RECORDING

Bespoke field recording and sound recording on location, with high-quality recordings provided according to specification.

SAMPLE PACKS

Collections of recordings and/or shorter samples provided according to specification drawn from Stuart’s own recording database.

 

These can also be created as bespoke collections with new recordings depending on requirements.

COMPOSITION

Musical, sonic and/or sound art compositions created according to a brief from the client to any length or specification, as standalone pieces or as accompanying soundtracks to video work, theatre or designed for specific physical spaces. Recent examples include a soundtrack for videos depicting the future of New York City for UN Climate Week, and a crowdsourced, collaborative soundtrack to the silent movie L’Inferno.

TRAINING SESSIONS

In-person or remote training sessions for any number of participants, developed in conjunction with the organising partner. Topics can include practical sound recording, sound and listening, working artistically with field recordings, or a range of other sound-related issues.

Sessions can be one-to-one, in small groups for practical work, or lecture-style for larger groups, with or without practical exercises.

PRESENTATIONS

Larger group presentations or panel discussions on various sound-related topics as above, and/or presentation of the Cities and Memory project.

ABOUT STUART
AND CITIES AND MEMORY

Stuart Fowkes, a sound artist and field recordist from Oxford, UK, is the founder of Cities and Memory, and has more than 20 years of experience in working with sound.

 

He is a leading expert in the creative use of sound, and has spoken on sound and related issues at conferences across Europe, as well as in countless media interviews.

 

From a background using field recordings to give context to musical composition, he created Cities and Memory in 2015. As well as recording and composing many hundreds of the project’s sounds, Stuart curates Cities and Memory’s sound projects and has grown a worldwide community of more than 2,000 contributing artists.

 

Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects and communities of sound practitioners, covering 130 countries with more than 7,000 sounds, with the ambition of “remixing the world, one sound at a time”.

 

As well as living online at citiesandmemory.com, it has been exhibited in installations both in the UK and internationally.

 

Cities and Memory’s many individual projects have used sound to throw a new light ontopics as diverse as human migration, climate change, protest and social activism and life under the Covid-19 lockdowns. The project has been featured in media all over the world including the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, Times, PBS, NBC, Wired, New Scientist and many others.