The Cities and Memories project is a unique project that explores the relationship between sound and place across the world. The project aims to highlight unique environments of cities and communities to get a deeper understanding of how sounds help generate a deeper understanding of the places we experience.
The director of the project, Stuart Fowkes, is a sound artist and field recordist from Oxford, UK. He started this project back in 2015. Fowkes has recorded many of the field recordings as well as produced many of the projects reimagined sounds.
The project started in Venice, but has now branched out to covering over 100 countries through the use of hundreds of artist. The project itself has published over 6,000 sounds and gained over 2.2 million listens and is still ongoing.
Basically the Cities and Memories project is a sound project that is trying to give people the ability to indulge themselves into different communities, cities, and countless environments.
The Cities and Memories project aims to exchange culture and engage communities through the use of sound mapping. The project wants to bridge art, culture, and community through the use of sound.