"Cities & Memory" where you can listen to environmental sounds & sampling music at various locations around the world for free

In the world we usually do not casually, everything is full of sounds such as car sounds, birds' barks, talking to human walking sounds. The sounds that come to be heard differ as the place changes, "Cities and Memory"Environmental sounds" that can be heard in various places around the world are gathered and it is a website that you can listen for free.

Cities and Memory: global collaborative sound project - Cities & Memory | Field Recordings, Sound Map, Sound Art
https://citiesandmemory.com/

From the top page of "Cities and Memory", click on "What is Cities and Memory?" ... ...


You can read the explanation about Cities and Memory. Cities and Memory collects sounds in more than 1,800 places in countries over 70 countries around the world, and indeed 400 other collaborators have recorded and sent the sound of the place for free And that. We do not need expensive recording equipment, it seems that smartphone applications are enough.


When scrolling the top page to the bottom, a map mapping the location where the sound is recorded in Cities and Memory is displayed.


A place where the sound was recorded not only in Europe, Asia and Africa, has also spread to the Americas.


It seems that sounds in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yakushima and so on are collected in Japan.


I tried to click on the landmark near Tokyo Shibuya station ......


Two photos near the scrambled intersection in Shibuya and two music players were displayed. I tried playing the top voice ......


People talking and laughing, laughing sounds of people walking, sounds like pulling carts, lively sounds coming from somewhere are heard. And, it also contains the sound of the voice guidance of the signal "I am blue", and you can soak in the mood as if you are on the spot when you close your eyes.


Then, when you play the lower music player ... ...


Experimental music sampled and re-edited environmental sounds flowed out. The sound that I hear is certainly based on the environmental sound of Shibuya, and the voice guidance of the signal is fragmented or mixed with people's stupid voices, but in some places the sound of brass instruments It was mixed and brought about a musical resonance. Cities and Memory not only maps the recorded sound as it is on the map, it also has a mechanism to re-edit the sound and display what was made like music at the same time.


Another environmental sound that had been recorded in Tokyo recorded the appearance of a bid in the Tsukiji market.


Edited version of the bottom, overlapping over and over again the voice of the people to participate in the auction, it sound of water has become a is added to by mysterious music.


Environmental sounds recorded in Hiroshima ......


It was a recording of the state of the legal requirements carried out at the Peace Memorial Park. The crowning of the cicadas is backed by the cries of the cicadas, and the mission of the monks is flowing, and this is the atmosphere like a kind of music without editing.


The edited voice at the bottom was that the cicadas were fractionally fragmented after the prelude where strange instruments with magical tones were beaten, which were close to their own music away from the environmental sound.


Environmental sound If Different places in the same Japan has also become something different entirely, Yakushima of environmental sound is intended to calm down the heart sound of water coming heard from somewhere in the cries of birds, such as a dog barks is mixed did.


Again Europe seems to have a lot of recorded parts ......


In a large city like Rome, there were also five recording locations in a small range. I will try listening to Rome's environmental sounds.


Then, I heard Italian Mariari 's English in the Guide to guide the world heritage Colosseum.


The edited music is a mixture of electronic music and guide voices.


British environmental sounds also included songs of pipe organs played in the church. Just getting rid of the sound source recorded on the map of Cities and Memory, it seems that time will be blown as much as possible.


Also, click "Latest sounds" from the top page ......


You can listen to recently added environmental sounds.


Clicking "Groal sound project" ......


It is possible to listen to sound sources gathered for various projects planned by Cities and Memory. Try clicking the project called "Dreamland".


This is the oldest theme park in the UK "DreamlandIt seems that it is a project that contains the sound source of "You can explore the project in full here" in order to listen to the project sound.


Then, various sound sources recorded in Dreamland became one track, I could hear some nostalgia and nostalgia feeling sound.


As I listened to the map on Cities and Memory as I thought, I felt like I was traveling around the world and I felt a very pleasant feeling. You can listen to all the sound sources for free, so if you are interested, you may want to try it out.