Cities and Memory is created, curated and developed by Stuart Fowkes, a sound artist and musician from Oxford, UK.
From a background of ten years using field recordings to give context to musical composition, he launched Cities and Memory in early 2014. He is heavily involved with arts and music in the city of Oxford, and is a trustee of Oxford Contemporary Music.[/toggle]
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
