An open call for artists to join our biggest ever, tenth anniversary Autumn Project – pick a sound and help us remix the world, one sound at a time!
Meet Cambridge-based sound and video artist and composer Amanda Stuart, and find out how her inspirations range from Debussy and Monet all the way through to Star Wars sound designer Ben Burt.
Meet Oaxaca-based field recordist, sound designer and composer Erick Ruiz Arellano, whose brilliant recordings were a centrepiece of our Sonic Heritage project – and find out why the sound of a blue whale\\\’s blow is so special.
Meet Tallinn-based musician, composer, painter, writer and multidisciplinary artist Paul Beaudoin, whose music explores space, quiet and memory, and for whom the sound of a foghorn has a very special significance.
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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
