2026: A Century of Sounds is a collaborative project between Cities and Memory and the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, to celebrate and creatively reimagine a century of ethnographic sound recordings from the museum’s archives. The project features 100 rare and previously unheard recordings from around the world. Artists from across the globe were invited to select one recording and create a new composition in response, exploring themes of history, culture, emotion, and memory. The resulting 100 compositions are showcased in the museum’s unique ‘sound shower’ space.
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2023: Border: After Ravilious, Littleford+Adams, Edgeland Modern at Marine Workshops: Newhaven. Funded by Arts Council, Chalk Cliff Trust & Lewes District Council
Left: Aggregate Hill, 200cm x 200cm, 2023
Right: Fort to Furlongs, 200cm x 200cm, 2018-2023
2023: Angle of repose, Sounds of the Year: Cities and Memory
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.