Cities and Memory

Despite being around since 2015, I'm just now diving into Cities and Memory; an enormous repository of field recordings and found sounds. Their global sound map has contributions from an incredible variety across the planet.

Listening to random field recordings from around the world would be interesting enough (imo) but they take it a step further and invite people to remix these sounds, creating ambient soundscapes interwoven with the captures. You can browse by types of sound or, even better, dig into some of the paired sounds like Music for Sleep, Shortwave Transmissions or (my favorite) Obsolete Sounds.

It's possibly the one place on the Internet you can listen to a field recording of a discontinued coffee grinder and a beautifully, lulling, song made from that same device. Incredible.