This week, Museum Week is being celebrated around the world, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to assemble the highlights of our field recordings and reimagined sounds from various museums and exhibitions around the world. Here are the Cities and Memory museum highlights for #MuseumWeek 2015. Enjoy! – The British Museum’s clock room, as imagined […]
I’ve been collecting field recordings on and off for about ten years now, and doing it in a much more systematic and intensive way over the last year since Cities and Memory launched, and I was reflecting on which locations, over the past year, have given me the most pleasure when looking for great field […]
A field recordist’s dream from the British Museum – an entire room dedicated to clocks and watches from across the ages, fortuitously paid a visit at midday, just as all of the clocks are chiming twelve times. There’s so much going on in the field recording here: ticking grandfather clocks, ancient bell chimes, a cuckoo […]
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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
