Meet Paris-based field recordist Colin Hunter, who has been contributing beautiful sound recordings of nature, sacred spaces and important places to Cities and Memory since the Covid-19 lockdowns.
The storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789 has been commemorated in France for more than a century. Today, the festivities of July 14 are as popular as ever and in Paris, the celebrations culminate with a magnificent fireworks display at the Eiffel Tower, as captured by Colin Hunter – you can also […]
Here we have a very special recording from Colin Hunter – one that allows us to hear inside the Eiffel Tower: “This recording was made using a sensitive geophone originally designed for seismic measurements that has been adjusted for field recording purposes. “The geophone was attached directly on to the main structure of the Eiffel […]
Today’s sound takes us all the way to Uganda, where this recording from Colin Hunter was made, capturing a local Batwa family performing a traditional tribal song and dance. City version: The reimagined sound is by Millie Wissar, who writes: “We are currently facing a time when governments around the world understate the importance of […]
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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
