Meet French painter, sound and video artist Philippe Neau, inspired by water, vibrations, accidents, nature time and space, and a long-time Cities and Memory contributor.
Our journey into Dante’s Inferno continues, and today we’re suspended in Limbo, with four pieces from this liminal space in Hell, the first of which comes from Warren Daly. “My composition tries to capture the varied emotions of being ensnared in limbo. “I used field recordings from a tropical forest in order to mirror Dante’s journey. […]
The next stop on our Future Cities tour of the world’s cities is another of its most iconic – Paris. Come with us and explore some of the fascinating sounds of this wonderful city – and hear how it’s brought inspiration to artists in their reimagined versions. We start by the banks of the Seine, […]
Come with us to Istanbul in Turkey – the city where eastern and western cultures come together, something very evident in the soundscapes of its sacred spaces.
A trip to Iceland today, and the sound of flocks of birds echoing over Jökulsárlón lagoon, the deepest lake in the country and regarded as one its natural wonders.
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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
