Cities And Memory

A Century of Sounds is a trip through one hundred years of sounds from all over the world, taken from the archives of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.It's a partnership between the museum and Cities and Memory, which is one of the world’s largest sound projects, aiming to remix the world, one sound at a time. 100 artists were invited to each choose one field recording, to be inspired by the stories, the places and the history behind that sound, and to recompose that recording to reflect their own creative and emotional response to the sound.In this programme, throughout you’ll hear first an excerpt from the field recording, and then the composition that sound inspired. The final collection presents a new way of listening to these recordings and the stories behind them, and suggests new ways of using sound to help us understand humanity, past and present.You can explore the entire project at https://citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds1. Afternoon beneath a palm shelter (Central African Republic) - recorded by