A contribution from Flavien Gillie in Belgium, who sends in these sounds from Avenue LeGrand on a spring day, with people milling around buying their lunch and light traffic, and a great synth-y reimagined version of this street scene that’s well worth your time. Hear more of Flavien’s sounds over here. Field recording: listen to […]
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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
