Another new country for us at Cities and Memory today, as we travel to the Bukhara bazaar in Uzbekistan. The original field recording by Mark Wilden is a demonstration of some traditional stringed instruments being played in the bazaar. The reimagined version, echoing the physicality of the stringed instruments, uses physical media to create a […]
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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
