Back to Venice, the inescapable sonic inspiration for so much of Cities and Memory. Here we took a boat trip to the small, peaceful island of Burano, where a machine boat working on one of the canals shatters the tranquility with its noise – similar
Time for our monthly roundup of the best sounds from around the world, both those we’ve made ourselves in the Cities and Memory labs, and those submitted by artists and field recordists. This month we’ve had a bumper crop of contributions from lots of people,
Today’s sound goes back to the spiritual home of Cities and Memory – Venice. The title of the project comes from the astonishing book by Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, in which Marco Polo recounts to Kubla Khan his voyages to imaginary cities around the world,
Here’s a water taxi in Venice with some overheard conversation: listen to ‘Water taxi, Venice’ on Audioboo And here’s the processed version, done through hardware this time using four effects pedals: listen to ‘Venice water taxi – processed version’ on Audioboo [mappress mapid=”3″]
