More from the beautiful city of Seville in Spain today, as we visit perhaps its most famous building, the mighty Catedral de Seville. Inside the almost incalculably-vast Seville Cathedral, we took this field recording which attempts to capture some of the sonic confusion within. The space is so vast that the overriding impression is one […]
It’s fascinating to hear how two people approach the same sound from different perspectives and come up with completely different results, but also how some of the key characteristics of the sound to focus on are picked up by both artists and treated differently.
A blend of two locations and two field recordings with very different characters and sonic properties today, as Alexander McHattie picked out two of our recordings to tackle. The first is the iconic sound of London’s Big Ben clock tower, on this occasion striking 4.00pm. The second is from Hamley’s toy store inside Heathrow airport’s […]
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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
