Cities and Memory (@citiesandmemory.bsky.social)

Launching today! 🎉 A Century of Sounds, a unique partnership between Cities & Memory and the Pitt Rivers Museum, inviting listeners to explore compositions created by 100 artists from a century of incredible recordings from the museum’s sound collections. citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds

We’re looking for your creative perspectives on listening in our new partnership Ways of Listening - open for your submissions until 19 June, whether they’re music, field recordings, video, visual arts, poetry or prose. We’d love to hear from you! citiesandmemory.com/listening/

“I have to open my body like a marimba resonator to almost digest the whole sound, and see sound as a food diet”. @dameevelynglennie talks us through what the resonators of a marimba can tell us about listening with our whole bodies.

So I wrote something for something. Part of the @citiesandmemory “A Century of Sounds” Project in collaboration with the Pitt Rivers Museum. More unites us than divides us…. We Dance, We Dream, We Love (for Timon Beri) #SoundCloud #electronicmusic on.soundcloud.com/I8HsU04j8wu8mA…

Tonight! Live! Sold out! We’re livestreaming the launch event for the Century of Sounds launch event @pittriversmuseum - so tune in and join us via the link in our bio! 📺 The livestream runs from 6.30pm - 9.00pm UK time tonight (27 February): citiesandmemory.com/2026/02/centur…

Today’s Century of Sounds highlight is a moving piece called “Nothing changes (a begging I will go)” by Rebecca Denniff, which you can experience live at our launch event tomorrow, or via the livestream. We can’t wait to hear it performed live! citiesandmemory.com/2026/02/centur…

Great to be part: A Century of Sounds, a unique partnership between Cities & Memory and the Pitt Rivers Museum, inviting you to explore compositions created by 100 artists from a century of incredible recordings from the museum. citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds via @citiesandmemory

Launching today! A Century of Sounds, a unique partnership between Cities & Memory and the Pitt Rivers Museum, inviting you to explore compositions created by 100 artists (incl. me!) from a century of incredible museum recordings. citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds via @citiesandmemory

A horse's whinny is unlike any other sound in nature - horses use their larynx to make two sounds simultaneously, so they are effectively singing and whistling at the same time: newscientist.com/article/251644…

Century of Sounds: the album is out now! This free/pay-what-you-like album brings together some of the highlights from our partnership with the Pitt Rivers Museum, bringing together a diverse range of musical styles from all over the world. citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/a-centur…

Now live for the next hour or so - the Century of Sounds listening party! Come and join us to hear a selection of amazing pieces from the project launched just today: citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/live/a-century…

Really pleased to have my song ‘Broken’ on this amazing album.

Join the listening party for our Bandcamp highlights album today at 4pm UK time and chat to Cities and Memory and some of the artists as we tour through some of the Century of Sounds: citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/merch/a-centur…

Launching on Monday! 100 years of incredible ethnographic recordings from the Pitt Rivers Museum's extraordinary sound collections, reimagined into brand new compositions by sound artists, musicians, composers, poets and producers from all over the world 🖼️🔊

Did NOT expect Co-op freezers, Brian Eno and musique concrète to combine into this super-niche "for the field recordists" article on the Guardian today 📻🎧 theguardian.com/music/2026/feb…

Our central sound map now covers more than 140 countries and territories on every continent, with more than 2,500 artists from all walks of life making this one of the biggest sound communities in the world. Huge thanks to everyone who's submitted, recorded or listened!

😲 We've just added sound number EIGHT THOUSAND to our global sound map 🎉 From protests, calls to prayer, the sounds of work, play, love and life, to natural soundscapes, and obsolete and disappearing sounds, all of life can be explored through sound: citiesandmemory.com/sound-map/

New Cities and Memory live show announced! We're looking forward to playing with the excellent Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan in Oxford for @DivineSchism on 19 March, with an all-new live set including pieces we've never tried out live before 👀 🎧