“The church bells at the north end of the island begin ringing. A storm approaches and the bells grow louder. There is a civic debate going on in earshot, just loud enough to be a foreground element, competing with cicadas and a brisk wind in the foreground as ambience.”
As I mentioned earlier, the anti-ISIS protest that began in Altona and crossed St. Pauli later found its way to the centre of Hamburg, by the main rail station. Having set off to investigate the city centre by night, I got more than I bargained for, as dozens of police cars surrounded the block I […]
Today’s sound is from Chicago, submitted by new contributor Lee Barry. The original recording is from the Chicago Loop in the area in front of the Art Institute at Michigan Avenue and Adams, and the remix is a ambient musical reconstruction. Lee says: “Towards the end of the clip an elevated train roars overhead, and I […]
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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
