After three months of collecting amazing field recordings from around the world, we’re excited to kick off the new year with the artist call for our first major project of 2025 – Sonic Heritage! The project explores the sounds of the world’s most famous sights, as we use sound to explore concepts of tourism, heritage […]
Some great news to kick off 2025 – I’m incredibly proud to say that more than TWO THOUSAND artists have now taken part in Cities and Memory! I’d like to say a massive thank you to everyone who’s contributed a composition or a recording to the project, and a special thank you to those artists […]
Legendary online radio station NTS will be playing a 30-minute special on Migration Sounds this Sunday 15 December, as part of a 24-hour broadcast marking International Migrants Day. Our programme is a 30-minute mix of field recordings taking you through three aspects of migration: forced migration, diaspora communities and daily life as a migrant. Tune […]
Today’s field recording comes from a beautiful spot in Rome, Italy, In this recording we’re taking a tour of the boating lake by the Tempio di Esculapio in the Villa Borghese Park. A harp busker performs, we walk around the lake listening to passers-by on a Sunday morning in April, and a police helicopter passes […]
Another gorgeous field recording from Venice, Italy, as we experience through sound a moment of calm in the late afternoon on Riva di Biasio, looking out at the the Grand Canal. The classic sounds of boat traffic cruising past that make Venice sound like no other city on Earth. A vaporetto (water taxi) passes by […]
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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
