Best Checkpoint Charlie Podcasts (2026)

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Checkpoint Charlie 10:01

2h ago10:01

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Ambisonics recordings at Checkpoint Charlie, the famous crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. Recorded by Anders Vinjar.By Cities and Memory

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Tutorials – the unsung heroes of gaming 51:19

2h ago51:19

51:19

Join Kolby, Tom, Missy, and Erielle in this episode of Checkpoint on JOY where they talk about tutorials in video games. Catch the latest episode on Spotify: Giving a 1-Up to diversity in gaming. The post Tutorials – the unsung heroes of gaming appeared first on Checkpoint.By JOY 94.9 - Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Asexual, Queer, LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB

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Midnight in an amphibian world 5:23

1h ago5:23

5:23

For this piece, multiple layers of synths, strings and other instruments layer on top of one another, performing variations of the same melody, to mimic both the repetition and individual variations within the the frog choruses. Each instrument becomes a voice joining in with the frogs’ calls, creating a melodic bed that reflects on the majestic be…

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Boat launch blues 6:26

2h ago6:26

6:26

"Reimagination of Hastings Boat Launch with a blues shuffle feel to it." Hastings boat launch reimagined by Gareth Eckley.By Cities and Memory

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Green vs grey 2:20

2h ago2:20

2:20

|Trees and birds have always been considered the lungs of a neighbourhood. Yet, even though we recognise their value, the policy of too many (Belgian) cities is to trade vibrant greenery for dull, grey concrete. This is a call to action: we must do more to protect our scarce green spaces." Bos forest, Amsterdam reimagined by Jade Yorks.…

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Midnight froglings, Goa 1:25

2h ago1:25

1:25

This was recorded near a field after the rain around midnight where frogs were having a huge discussion about meeting their future partners. Recorded in Goa, India by Anantha Krishnan.By Cities and Memory

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Launching 17:38

2h ago17:38

17:38

his recording, made in January 2025, is of one of the fishing boats being launched from the beach in Hastings. This sustainable fishing fleet has a history spanning over 200 years and faces many challenges, such as the gradual decline of fish stocks, damage to the marine environment from pollution and climate change, over regulation and unfair comp…

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Amsterdamse Bos 3:06

2h ago3:06

3:06

Amsterdamse bos is a 100-year-old forest surrounded by a 750-year-old city. This artificial forest is both a forest and park-like. It provides a significant habitat for non-human creatures within the city. Meanwhile, behind the voices of birds, you can hear the constant sound of airplanes passing overhead on their way to Schiphol Airport, which was…

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Checkpoint 10:48

2h ago10:48

10:48

"I wanted to keep the original recording as intact as possible. I had some chord progressions I was already working on, and they seemed to fit the theme, so I orchestrated from there. Wanting something that reflected both the past, present and future of the location, the Berlin School influenced was obvious, but then it needed to break down a bit, …

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Up To Date: Sony patented AI-generated tutorials 51:55

2d ago51:55

51:55

Join Kolby, Tom, Missy, and Erielle in this episode of Checkpoint on JOY where they talk about Sony’s latest patent – AI tutorials. Catch the latest episode on Spotify: Giving a 1-Up to diversity in gaming. The post Up To Date: Sony patented AI-generated tutorials appeared first on Checkpoint.By JOY 94.9 - Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Asexual, Queer, LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB

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Episode 133 - The one where we are Eagle Squadron (mwah mwah airplanes...) 2:29:59

17d ago2:29:59

2:29:59

Duncan, Eddie and Lee return with another episode of Shoot and Scoot, the Flames of War, Checkpoint Charlie and Team Yankee wargaming podcast. This episode we talk about how Eddie and Lee got on at the TTR flames of war tornie, answer some of our patron's many questions and have our Christmas pub quiz.…

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Chimes revisited 3:27

19d ago3:27

3:27

"My first ever Cities and Memory track was a response to a very similar recording; that one, too, featured chimes. For that first track I re-sequenced the ringing and built my response on that 'quantised' structure. "Some five years on I have changed very little to this original recording, leaving most of the irregularity in the ringing in place an…

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The Untuned Bell 2:38

20d ago2:38

2:38

The Untuned Bell sound installation in Radhusplassen in Oslo. This 1.4-ton bell (anno 1949) was removed from the bell tower of Oslo City Hall because it was no longer in tune with the other 48 bells. The artist found the bell lying silent on the ground and restored its voice. From its new home on Radhusplassen, here outside the City Hall, the bell …

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Chaffinches in McCaig's Tower 3:35

20d ago3:35

3:35

In McCaig's Tower, overlooking the bustling harbour town of Oban, finches call out from all sides as we walk around the inside of the tower walls, while the hum of the harbour rises up the hill from below us. Recorded in Oban, Scotland by Cities and Memory in April 2025.By Cities and Memory

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Look out 6:15

20d ago6:15

6:15

"The piece takes its cue from McCaig’s Tower in Oban, Scotland—not as an architectural curiosity, but as an acoustic world. It begins and ends with the finches that inhabit the open structure, their calls forming the work’s natural frame. "The music moves through evolving motifs: a peaceful drone and the suggestion of bagpipes represent the quiet o…

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The company of others 16:24

19d ago16:24

16:24

"In approaching the project I was struck by the evocative and ethereal quality of the original recording, in particular the call to prayer, and have tried to retain that in the three sections of this piece. There is also a timeless quality to the original, which I wanted to retain and develop. "The piece is intended to present those sounds in diffe…

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Call to prayer at the floating village 2:36

20d ago2:36

2:36

A call to prayer at the Bang Phat floating village in Thailand, known for its "floating" houses on stilts and a simple fishing community. Recorded by Jake Edwards.By Cities and Memory

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Cuckoos 5:26

20d ago5:26

5:26

"I used the cuckoos as a backdrop for a story about death in the forest, of disappearing back into the earth and how that would feel. I wanted it to sound sort of dreamy and slightly off balance." Cuckoos in Tomintoul, Scotland reimagined by Dermot Fitzsimons.By Cities and Memory

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Cuckoos at dawn 3:21

20d ago3:21

3:21

A soundscape of a particularly misty morning, recorded at 4.12am during late spring from the observing window of the Tomintoul Bird Hide. The hide sits on the edge of the highest village in the Highlands of Scotland. The calls of cuckoos create an eerie presence that gives depths to the length of the surrounding valley. Along with the days awakenin…

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Beneath the swell, she echoes 4:57

20d ago4:57

4:57

"Beneath the swell, she echoes emerged from Marcelo Carneiro’s evocative field recording of the Iemanjá Day celebration—its textures, rhythms, and atmosphere opened a doorway to memory. I was drawn to create it through a long-standing connection to Brazilian music and culture. Many years ago, while singing with a Brazilian percussion group in Scotl…

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Praia Vermelha 01 2:53

20d ago2:53

2:53

This is the first edition of a recording I've made in the 2024 summer afternoon at the beach. It was made at Praia Vermelha (Red Beach), Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was a hot weather, the beach was crowded: children, families, young and elder people, vendors selling drinks and refreshments (water, cold mate, coconut water, popsicle, and so on)…

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Some distance from the city 6:30

20d ago6:30

6:30

"The sound of a train in the distance on a quiet beautiful morning makes me think of possibility and freedom. But I was thinking about how others may hear something different, or it might not be a positive association for everyone, depending on how free you are, or what's truly possible. In the old days I had an idea of America and its wide open sp…

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Early morning, Savannah Garden City 2:58

20d ago2:58

2:58

It’s early morning in what seems to be a quiet suburb of Georgia. People are still asleep, but you the rumble of industry never stops, cars flying down nearby highways and the signalling and occasional hoots of trains passing through. The birds wake up and follow suit. Garden City is a city is known for its industrial hub and proximity to the Port …

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I found the presence 3:29

20d ago3:29

3:29

"This piece struck me because of the background drone of echoed speech and mechanical sounds with some melodic content (possibly an elevator chime, since looking into the site I found that the Hannover Rathaus has a well-known arched elevator that curves with the dome of the building). "I built the fundamentals of the piece around those notes and s…

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Reverb in the Rathaus 4:45

20d ago4:45

4:45

A soundwalk around the heavily-reverbed impressive interior of Hannover's Neues Rathaus. Huge, reverby echo caused by the voices and footsteps of just a few visitors. Recorded by Cities and Memory, May 2025.By Cities and Memory

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Skye waves / Midnight mariner 5:48

21d ago5:48

5:48

"Scotland has always had a strong pull on my imagination and I've always wanted to visit. This sound file was my first choice from the many offered by Cities & Memory for their Autumn Project. Coincidentally, this past summer, while vacationing with my family in Assateague, Virginia, I made a recording of the ocean shore while standing on the beach…

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Chirping into daylight 5:42

21d ago5:42

5:42

A dawn soundscape in the heart of Vietnam’s lowland forest, where the awakening of countless birds marks the start of a new day. The air fills with the diverse chorus of chirps, calls, and rustling, as various species gradually come to life. Cat Tien Park, Vietnam recorded by Rafael Diogo.By Cities and Memory

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Vienna drum and bass on a bike (liquid pedal remix) 4:46

21d ago4:46

4:46

"For this remix, I pulled out the most musical fragments of the original, like the bicycle bells, and turned them into looping motifs, then built an entirely new drum and bass track beneath them. I also reshaped the vocal sample into another loop and wove in select sound effects, like the crowd noise and a car starting, to preserve the atmosphere w…

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Drum and bass on the bike 1:48

21d ago1:48

1:48

This is the recording I made by complete accident - we were coming back home with my girlfriend and when we came out of the metro station we heard loud music from behind, so we went to see what it was. I remembered that I'd seen the posters around town about the Drum and Bass on Bike event, which was supposed to be in support of the general 420 par…

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Brooklyn carousel 2:19

21d ago2:19

2:19

This is a brief recording in May 2022 of the music from Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn, NY. I was just looking up the history of the Merry-Go-Round, which was built in 1922 for the Idora Park amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio. So, by sheer coincidence this recording was made 100 years after the creation of the carousel. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York…

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Jane underwater 4:58

21d ago4:58

4:58

"Resampled bit of carousel from my former home of Brooklyn gets a new life as this plaintive melody." Carousel in Brooklyn, New York reimagined by Anne Pope.By Cities and Memory

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The March of Light 2:10

21d ago2:10

2:10

The March of Light 2025 (Ukraine Support Demonstration in Vienna) This recording illustrates one of the crucial parts of the March of Light demonstration, which is basically a flash mob based on people showing and hiding their phones with flashlights turned on, which is then shared on social media to draw people's attention to the whole event, whic…

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Transmissie 3:02

21d ago3:02

3:02

"The original field recording captures a street choir singing hymns. I transformed this material by processing it into dense, evolving layers of sound. One layer stretches the recording in time and feeds it through the Elta Music Solar 42F, allowing the choral textures to dissolve into a shimmering, otherworldly drone. "The result is a slow-moving,…

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Vietnam 5:50

21d ago5:50

5:50

"The bird sounds of this recording have a particular cadence and repetition. It inspired me to create something that was more solid and continuous to accompany it. I created a drone composed of 4 sounds that intertwine with each other progressively. "This piece contains a binaural base frequency of 3.2 Hz so it is encouraged to listen on earphones …

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Dripping water inside a sea cave 4:30

21d ago4:30

4:30

Inside a sea cave on a Cornish beach, recording dripping waves on different surfaces and at different distances, onto rock, into small puddles and directly onto sand, while the roar of the sea waves continues outside the cave. Recorded in Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England by Cities and Memory, April 2025.…

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Cicadas and katydids singing 5:05

21d ago5:05

5:05

Cicadas and katydids singing in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, 9 Aug 2013. This is a recording of the intense sounds of cicadas and katydids singing in the deep night. The recording was made using two condenser microphones in stereo array through a Mackie 12 track board directly to digital. Recorded by Dan Bodah.…

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Aquatic reverberations from Cornwall to SoCal 13:06

21d ago13:06

13:06

"Salt water reverberations and soundscapes are a daily and necessary embodied element of my life by and on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, Southern California. As a woman from Britain living in SoCal, I connect with the sea caves sounds in Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England, being soothed and inspired by the rhythms, pitches, textures, and timbres…

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An intense calling 3:52

21d ago3:52

3:52

"For this year’s Autumn Project, I was excited to have the opportunity to work with a sample collected near my original home. "“An Intense Calling” is field-recording-based piece based on a recording of cicadas and katydids in Dingman’s Ferry, PA collected by Dan Bodah. Growing up near the Delaware Water Gap on the other side in New Jersey, I was e…

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Autumn drums 4:57

21d ago4:57

4:57

"As soon as I heard the drum recording, I wanted to do something with it in the spirit of break chopping/dj tools. I love lots of 70s/80s/early 90s straight sample flips & it was an unusual opportunity to try something similar without butting up against copyright issues. "I chopped up the recording, added a little in the way of effects, and supplem…

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Magic hour at the Fairy Pools 4:02

21d ago4:02

4:02

Possibly the most visited spot on Skye are the Fairy Pools, a long chain of pools and small waterfalls coming down from the mountains - a truly stunning spot. We visit after most tourists have left, at around 8pm in the evening, to capture some close-up sound recordings without the presence of tourists. Recorded in Skye, Scotland by Cities and Memo…

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Ever Is Over All by Pipilotti Rist 5:20

21d ago5:20

5:20

A video installation called "Ever Is Over All" by Pipilotti Rist (1997), at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin - haunting music loops over and over, while in the video the artist walks along the street, then smashes car windows using a model of a large flower. Recorded by Cities and Memory, September 2025.…

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Diana memorial fountain 5:27

21d ago5:27

5:27

An extract from a soundwalk around this water feature in Hyde Park, London. It’s an oval granite channel measuring between 6 and 10 meters wide, and about 50 by 80 metres in diameter. Water flows across a varied surface cut into the granite, creating calm ripple sounds, fast torrents, turbulent bubbling… Recorded by Paul Wheeler.…

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Changti Street night market, Wuhan 4:16

21d ago4:16

4:16

Wuhan’s night markets are famously vibrant, but Changti Street’s night market recording was chosen for its contrast with the afternoon one, highlighting shifts in life’s rhythm and atmosphere. In this recording: nearby voices shift from passersby to seated diners, more stable; the next layer of pedestrians chat while walking, dynamic. In the mid-to…

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Under the night market 3:00

21d ago3:00

3:00

"This field recording put me in mind of the anxiety and sensory overload one can experience in crowded public spaces like the night market the original captures. The horns of cars, beeping of cars and cacophony of noises from busy stalls are transformed into abstracted noises, barely legible as their original forms, and the voices of workers and cu…

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Lost in frequency 4:55

21d ago4:55

4:55

'Since moving to London, I have been continuously tuning myself to the frequency of this city. "Melodies generated by four automatic systems based on different musical scales, field recordings, and my own voice sometimes connect, intersect, conflict, and harmonise. "Lost in different frequencies, I am still searching for a way through." Diana memor…

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Never is ever over 2:01

21d ago2:01

2:01

"Field recording of Pipilotti Rist's "Ever Is Over" performance piece deconstructed via various granular processes." Video installation from Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin reimagined by Scott Lawrence Whitman.By Cities and Memory

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Subliminish 4:32

21d ago4:32

4:32

"This piece was made from a selection of time-stretched samples of gaps between the rushing water in the original field recording, layered and manipulated to create an ambient soundscape. I have had the pleasure of swimming in the Fairy Pools in the past, and was inspired by the uncanny and liminal nature of sounds and ambience when heard underwate…

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Checkpoint Rewind Trivia 2025 53:41

21d ago53:41

53:41

Join Elliot, Luke, Charlie, and Edie in this episode of Checkpoint on JOY where they play Checkpoint Rewind Trivia. Catch the latest episode on Spotify: Giving a 1-Up to diversity in gaming. The post Checkpoint Rewind Trivia 2025 appeared first on Checkpoint.By JOY 94.9 - Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Asexual, Queer, LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB

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