Well-Being Cities, by Cities and Memory

Well-Being Cities

by Cities and Memory

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Elysian Fields - KXCI 91.3 FM This project offers a kernel of hope for cities of the future. I also love the work that the C40 project has been working on. Cities are here to stay, so why not make them sustainable? Favorite track: Well-Being Cities.

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1.	Various artists - Well-Being Cities 21:48	info
2.	Alex Hehir - Time will come (Venice, Italy) 05:24	info
3.	Bill Stevens - Everyday Utopias (Copenhagen, Denmark) 13:18	info
4.	Cities & Memory - Against Coca-Cola (Kigali, Rwanda) 05:15	info
5.	Wahinya Mwirikia with D-Empress Evoke - Ubuntu; without you I do not exist (Havana, Cuba) 04:21	info
6.	Kid Kin - Night bells (Varanasi, India) 03:38	info
7.	Cristina Marras - We won the war against poverty (Wellington, New Zealand) 05:07	info
8.	Steffen Ki - Welcome to Abundancia (Lima, Peru) 07:45	info
9.	Maribel Tafur - The story of tomorrow (Fengyuan City, Taiwan) 05:18	info
10.	Dinah Mullen - Feral cities (Paris, France) 15:25	info
11.	Point/Call - Golden sun bird (Chengdu, China) 03:12	info
12.	Stefan Klaverdal - Train station melancholia (Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam) 05:36	info
13.	Rob Knight - Home (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 15:13	info

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This album collects together some of the highlights of the Well-Being Cities project, a unique collaboration between Cities and Memory and C40, a global network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis.

What is the project?

Well-Being Cities asks artists to reimagine one of a curated selection of urban field recordings to develop a new composition reflecting on the following questions:

1. What does a city that prioritises health and well-being sound like?
2. How can we use sound to reflect on what an equitable, healthy and climate-safe approach to wellbeing looks like for cities?
3. What would a truly green, resilient and equitable city sound like?

Thirty-five artists from 14 countries all over the world were chosen from a global open call for applications.

Each has taken inspiration from a field recording from one of 36 cities around the world, including 21 of the C40 cities themselves.

The compositions cover a staggering array of creative styles, from spoken word and radio art to ambient music, electroacoustic compositions and full-on electronic reworkings.

Just as varied as the musical and sonic approaches taken are the thematic addresses of the project’s central questions. Compositions reflect on the impact of the Covid-19 lockdowns, climate change, the homogenisation of the modern city, rising urban noise levels, the incorporation of sound into city planning and the collision of the modern with the traditional.

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released October 19, 2022

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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.
Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world. ... more

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