Open call: Echoes for Palestine - using sound to raise vital funds for Gaza
Join our call for a brand new fundraising compilation in aid of Hope and Play in Gaza
Hi everyone
We’re very proud to be supporting a brand new call, Echoes for Palestine, which is a global sonic compilation album in solidarity with - and raising vital funds for - Palestine.
We’re inviting sound artists, ambient musicians, and sonic storytellers to contribute to a compilation of listening, resistance, and remembrance.
This is not just a collection — it’s a sound call across borders, stitched from frequencies of grief, hope, rage, prayer, and love. Every vibration will raise funds for urgent humanitarian aid and amplify voices from a silenced land.
100% of proceeds will go directly to the amazing Hope and Play, who provide a critical lifeline for the children of Gaza. You can find out more about their essential work here.
The project is organised and coordinated by project contributor Rafael Diogo (Deep Dive Sound), with full support from Cities and Memory - and the final album will be hosted on our Bandcamp page.
This project calls for composed sound pieces — not raw field recordings — that explore themes related to Palestine through creative sonic interpretation. Your piece can be rooted in abstract sound design, ambient music, spoken word integration, electroacoustic collage, or even narrative soundscapes. The only requirement is that the work be a composed piece that engages with one or more of the following themes:
Occupation and displacement
Resistance and resilience
Memory, history, and ancestral land
Diaspora and exile
Colonial erasure and cultural preservation
The fragmentation of time, land, and identity
Hope, healing, and reimagined futures.
We want this compilation to serve both as testimony and imagination — works that honour Palestinian lives, dreams, and voices through meaningful sonic composition.
We hope as many of you as possible will be up for getting involved and supporting our efforts to use sound in solidarity with Palestine.
Join the Cities and Memory artist community on WhatsApp
In response to the Cities and Memory survey, which asked for more ways for artist to connect with one another, we’ve launched a WhatsApp community for artists, which is open to all.
The community is already over 100 strong, and has already helped to pull together the Echoes for Palestine fundraiser, helped connect artists with musicians for their new works, shared beautiful field recordings and compositions with one another and even arranged a couple of face-to-face meetups.
Want to join us and connect with other artists from Birmingham to Borneo? Hit the button below.
Artist Spotlight is here!
We’re also super excited about the latest feature on Cities and Memory - Artist Spotlight. This is a series of interviews with musicians, sound artists, composers and field recordists from across the Cities and Memory community, diving deep into their work and their lives in sound.
The first dozen interviews are now published for you to read, and if you’d like to take part, you can fill out the questions and do your own Artist Spotlight below too.
Explore the 2025 Spring Project
Our tenth anniversary Spring Project has now closed, with well over 100 brilliant compositions and recordings included, covering every type of sound imaginable and even a couple of new countries for us in Barbados, Benin and Afghanistan.
You can explore all of this year’s spring compositions and recordings on this special collection page:
That’s all for us from now, and a lot to be listening to and getting involved with. Keep an eye out too for our next large-scale global sound project - we’ll be launching the callout this August 👀
As always, thank you all for listening,
Stuart.