Migration Sounds full installation from the Pitt Rivers Museum

Nov 10, 05:30 PM

This is the sound installation of the Migration Sounds project, presented in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

Please note that the sounds are panned left and right, and this was designed to be played in a large physical space, so it is likely to sound somewhat unusual through headphones or in particular close sets of speakers.

In this installation, on one side of the space listeners could hear the original field recordings, while on the opposite side they could hear the corresponding composition based on that recording. 

Listeners created their own sound mix by moving around the space - their experience and perspective changed depending on their physical location.

The recordings and compositions are time-synced, and change to a new location every 60-90 seconds. The installation loops every 53 minutes.The sounds take us on a journey from west to east around the world, from the west coast of the USA to New Zealand.

You can read more about the sounds at this page, and the locations and artist credits are below: https://citiesandmemory.com/2024/11/pitt-rivers-sound-installation-november-2024/

Directory of sounds

San Francisco, USA
Recorded by Wendy Baker
Reimagined by Finlay Ellis

 Portland, USA

Recorded by Benjamin Glas-Hochstettler
Reimagined by Kid Kin

 Louisville, USA

Recorded by Aaron Rosenblum
Reimagined by current flow Ω 

 New York, USA

Recorded by Cities and Memory
Reimagined by Bill Stevens

 Hamilton, Canada

Recorded by Nala Ismacil
Reimagined by Simon Holmes

 Zitacuaro, Mexico

Recorded by Christine Renaudat
Reimagined by Elissa Goodrich

 Cartagena, Colombia

Recorded by Christine Renaudat
Reimagined by Amanda Stuart

 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Recorded by Christine Brebes
Reimagined by Emmy Tither

 Scarinish, Scotland

Recorded by Simon Holmes
Reimagined by Cristina Marras

 Oxford, England

Recorded by Rob McNeil
Reimagined by Tom Thompson

 Oxford, England

Recorded by Nuni Jorgensen
Reimagined by Ruby Singh

 London, England

Recorded by Cities and Memory
Reimagined by Jaspal Singh Bhogal

 London, England

Recorded by Maria Margaronis
Reimagined by Luca Piovesan

 London, England

Recorded by Cities and Memory
Reimagined by Ale Borea

 Calais, France

Recorded by anonymous
Reimagined by Glacis

 Düren, Germany

Recorded by Xenia Penko
Reimagined by Amy Sterly

 Bremen, Germany

Recorded by Pedro Oliveira
Reimagined by Cecilia Pez

 Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia

Recorded by Rafael Diogo
Reimagined by Anna Vienna Ho

 Villa del Conte, Italy

Recorded by Giulia Biasibetti
Reimagined by Rob Knight

 Sagrado, Italy

Recorded by Simon Šerc and Martina Testen
Reimagined by Kim[bal]

 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Recorded by Görkem Özdemir
Reimagined by Laura Romero Valldecabres

 Ljubljana, Slovenia


Recorded by Görkem Özdemir
Reimagined by Flexagon

 Velika Kladuša, Bosnia Herzegovina

Recorded by Beat Theofried Alto Sandkühler
Reimagined by Alison Beattie

 Krakow, Poland

Recorded by Andrii Shamanov
Reimagined by Judith Mann

 Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy

Recorded by Frey Lindsay
Reimagined by Odyssey Ensemble

 Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy

Recorded by Frey Lindsay
Reimagined by Cities and Memory

 Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy

Recorded by Frey Lindsay
Reimagined by Cristian Estrella

 Chios, Greece

Recorded by Maria Margaronis
Reimagined by Museleon

 Lesvos, Greece

Recorded by Maria Margaronis
Reimagined by Ana Mora

 Eidomeni, Greece

Recorded by Maria Margaronis
Reimagined by Arozian with Samantha Hannan

 Kigali, Rwanda

Recorded by Carlos Vargas-Silva
Reimagined by figurehead

 South Sinai, Egypt

Recorded by Rafael Diogo
Reimagined by Andy Billington

 Nicosia, Cyprus

Recorded by Serge Bulat
Reimagined by Mark Baker

 Jerusalem, Israel

Recorded by Rafael Diogo
Reimagined by Chris Sakellaridis

 Bethlehem, Palestine

Recorded by Rafael Diogo
Reimagined by Deep Dive Sound

 Tumanyan, Armenia

Recorded by Maria Gunko
Reimagined by Bill McKenna

 Tehran, Iran


Recorded by Saadi Daftari
Reimagined by SINE

 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Recorded by Vladimir Bocharov
Reimagined by Arvik Torrenssen

 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Recorded by Vladimir Bocharov
Reimagined by Jeff Düngfelder

 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Recorded by Vladimir Bocharov
Reimagined by Nicolo Scolieri

 Kolkata, India

Recorded by Sourya Sen
Reimagined by Maria Margaronis

 Xiamen, China

Recorded by Qianyi Alice Li
Reimagined by Cristina Italiani

 Makati, Philippines


Recorded by Elaine Lazaro
Reimagined by Christine Renaudat

 Woodend, Australia

Recorded by Rob McNeil
Reimagined by Chris Taylor

 Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Recorded by Hee-Jin Kim
Reimagined by Grigor Ćorić