Our most northerly sound yet comes courtesy of Benjamin Pothier, an anthropologist and artist-researcher currently working in the Arctic Circle. He sent us this sound from the beautiful Kilpisjarvi lake in Finland, next to the Swedish border (incidentally, there are beautiful pictures from Tromso in Norway, his base, on his website). This windswept recording really […]
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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
