An interactive New York sound map, featuring field recordings and reimagined sounds from New York City, USA.
Each of the New York sounds on this map is accompanied by a reimagined version, in which an artist has remixed and recomposed the original recording to present a new perspective on the city.
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You can also explore our “sonic tourism” guide to the sounds of New York to listen out for on a trip to the city.
There’s a free compilation album of some of the highlights from our New York sound map, which you can stream and download from our Bandcamp page:
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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
