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      • Ambient sounds
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      • All sound projects
      • A Century of Sounds
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      • Obsolete Sounds
      • Polar Sounds
      • Protest & Politics
      • Sanctuary
      • Sonic Heritage
      • Sound Photography
      • #StayHomeSounds
      • Ways of Listening
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    • For artists
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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

    Coup de Coeur winner 2025, Académie Charles Cros