Sounds of the Year 2023, by Cities and Memory

Sounds of the Year 2023

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1.	Cristina Marras - Sound(s) matter(s) (Manchester, England) 02:28	info
2.	Daniel Chudley - Le Corre - Love to lose you with me (Koforidua, Ghana) 04:50	info
3.	de Velden - A fleeting thought, forgotten (Reykjavik, Iceland) 03:46	info
4.	Molenari - The family album (Sirolo, Italy) 03:32	info
5.	Simon Holmes - I am the air (Oxford, England) 03:19	info
6.	Arvik Torrenssen - Far fields (Dolomites, Italy) 06:05	info
7.	Cities & Memory - The navigator (Porto, Portugal) 03:49	info
8.	Becky Gebhardt - Dosa! (New Delhi, India) 03:45	info
9.	Bill Stevens - A light exists in Spring (Paris, France) 05:20	info
10.	Firephly - Seasonal reverie (Helsinki, Finland) 04:06	info
11.	Rachael Adams - Angle of repose (Gatwick Airport, England) 03:37	info
12.	Wahinya Mwirikia - Holy land (Jerusalem, Israel) 02:45	info
13.	Andy Billington - The sonic reverberation of Saint Marinus (San Marino) 09:42	info
14.	Christina Lucchesi - Rain song (Koforidua, Ghana) 01:30	info

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This album is a collection of some of the highlights from across the Cities and Memory project over the last 12 months, showing off some of the amazing diversity of creative approaches our contributing artists have shown over the year.

It’s free to download or available on a pay-what-you-like basis, so please do download it, listen and share widely – we’d love as many people as possible to hear these amazing compositions and field recordings.

This year’s collection is a special one, featuring two amazing vocal songs made from the sounds of a hot air balloon and a buzzing soundscape of insects respectively. There’s a piece framed by the poetry of a 97-year-old, and a spoken word soundscape built from a political protest.

You can listen to the memory of the golden light of summers spent in Italy recreated in music, or an electronica piece built from the sound of sizzling dosas cooking in India.

Take a trip to the main station in Porto, the Hallgrimskirkja in Reyjavik.

Sit right next to the runway at Gatwick Airport, visit Paris in the springtime or take a moment in silent reverence at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

It’s all right here on Sounds of the Year 2023 – and this was how our year sounded.

To hear all of the sounds from the project, visit www.citiesandmemory.com.

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released December 14, 2023

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Cities and Memory Oxford, UK

Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
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