Cities and Memory is a global sound art and field recording project.
[4] Founded in 2015 by Stuart Fowkes, the project has been featured in The Guardian,[5] Bloomberg,[6] BBC World Service,[7] and The Atlantic.
[10] In 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the project launched #StayHomeSounds which “aims to record how the sound of cities is dramatically changing during the Covid-19 outbreak".
[11] In October 2022, Cities and Memory was one of the projects selected for the C40 World's Mayors Summit in Buenos Aires with the project Wellbeing Cities, which asked artists to reimagine a selection of field recordings from 36 countries around the world, to develop new compositions on the theme of sustainability, equity and wellbeing in cities.
[12] A collaboration with the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity and the Alfred Wegener Institute resulted in the Polar Sounds project which captured calls from Ross seals, crabeater seals, minke whales, narwhals and humpback whales using underwater microphones, as well as re-imagined sounds by 150 artists .