Today we’re heading to Balboa Island, California, to hear the sounds of evening wind with recordist Marcel Gnauk of Free To Use Sounds. He tells us: “To get the sound of wind I had to drive down to the Balboa Island at night time to avoid traffic and airplane noises, so I was able to […]
We’re off to Taksim Square, Istanbul today, and a protest from 30 March 2012 recorded by Jacek Smolicki, which has been reimagined into something impressive by long-time contributor Jeff Dungfelder from New York: “I chose to use the field recording of Turkish women in Istanbul protesting at home because the sounds have a texture of […]
This time last year, we presented our round up of the best sound design tools of 2015, as suggested by Cities and Memory contributing artists. Here, we update the piece for 2016 by asking several of our most frequent contributors which tools they’ve been using to work with sound this year. In each case, you […]
“I wanted to take them completely out of the blues/prison context and view them as a part of a late night groove headspace. At the moment I was inspired by reading a quote by Pablo Picasso: “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.””
Mexico City: a field recording from the famous Plaza de la Constitucion captures the ‘cilindrero’, or organ grinder, a street musician who plays a mechanical piano to entertain the passing crowds.
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- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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