Meet Connecticut-based multidisciplinary artist Jeff Düngfelder, who works across film, sound, photography and graphic design, and is one of the longest Cities and Memory contributors, taking part in almost every project.
Our recent project Until We Travel featured some incredible sounds from voyages across the world’s biggest country – Russia’s railway network is, as you might expect, extremely extensive, and there are many ways to reimagine it. Today’s post highlights three fantastic remixes of Russian rail travel. First up, let’s listen to a sound from the […]
We were fortunate enough to spend some time in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and one of the defining sounds of the city is very obviously the five-times-per-day call to prayer – the call to prayer sound is today’s focus in our Future Cities world tour. In different parts of the city at different times of the […]
Anyone for jazz? Then come with us to Small’s jazz club in Greenwich Village, an excellent club devoted to giving space to the best young, new and upcoming jazz talent on the New York scene – here we tune into a couple of numbers from Ulysses Owen Jr.’s exceptional drum-led five-piece, as heard in October […]
Today’s sound comes from Yellowstone National Park via the National Park Service – here you can hear the harsh cries of red-winged blackbirds reverberate across Swan Lake lake amidst the sounds of boreal chorus frogs and sandhill cranes. City version: The reimagined version of this sounds was composed by regular contributor Jeff Dungfelder, who writes: […]
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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
