Meet Tallinn-based musician, composer, painter, writer and multidisciplinary artist Paul Beaudoin, whose music explores space, quiet and memory, and for whom the sound of a foghorn has a very special significance.
A gorgeous early morning soundscape for you today, with this field recording by Alex Banaszkiewicz from Miholjače, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Alex writes: “On an August morning, I managed to record a quiet weekday in the village of 600 inhabitants. Beautiful, sunny weather, light wind and wonderful aura of this place.” City version: This sound is accompanied by […]
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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
