Liverpool, England. The Albert Dock area has undergone a great deal of regeneration lately, and indeed the regeneration of Liverpool has been the subject of at least two of our reimagined sounds in the recent past. Here, though, German sound artist Heiko Jay has selected the late-night, relaxed sounds of Albert Dock’s pier head when […]
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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
