Montreal-based artist John Kim reimagined this sound, taking everything in his extensive, varied reimagination from the original sound file. Instead of a journey on the mundane tram system, he takes us on a voyage that includes rippling waters, animal sounds, pulsing harp-like sounds and abstract, robotic drums made from tram door sounds. Quite a journey!
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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
