As we head into August, it’s time to listen back to the ten best sounds from July – they come from Canada, Italy and the UK and feature six different sound artists getting involved as guest contributors, and four of our own home-grown sounds. Explore the places and their sounds below! Guest sounds Montreal, Canada: Making […]
We’re staying at home today, with two sounds from our hometown of Oxford – the classic sound of British ducks relaxing by the river, and a conversation between two students (bitching about a mutual friend of theirs) in the queue at Oxford’s ornate central Post Office building. We passed these sounds over to Manchester sound […]
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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
