This week, Museum Week is being celebrated around the world, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to assemble the highlights of our field recordings and reimagined sounds from various museums and exhibitions around the world. Here are the Cities and Memory museum highlights for #MuseumWeek 2015. Enjoy! – The British Museum’s clock room, as imagined […]
Following hot on the heels of our Hamburg-based album Erinnerungen an eine Stadt, we’re pleased to offer up the first in (hopefully) a series of free downloads highlighting the very best of Cities and Memory. It’s been quite a first year for us, with 60 contributors, sounds spread across 23 countries and more than 150,000 listens […]
This morning we pay a visit to the Indian Museum in Calcutta, thanks to regular contributor Moumita Roy, who sends in two sounds from this interesting space. She says: “The Indian museum is located in Park Street, one of the busiest spots in the city.The reason I chose to record the soundscape of the museum is […]
Today’s sounds are from India-based sound recordist Moumita Roy, who submits this hypnotic prayer chant from the Ci-Hui temple in Banqaio, New Taipei City, recorded during a trip in December 2013. The remixed version is a woozy, dreamy reworking of an already pretty special sound. Field recording: listen to ‘Ci-Hui Temple prayer, Banqiao, New […]
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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
