Off to sunny San Francisco today, for a field recording from SF native Rand Lo (whose excellent busker recording we remixed a while ago), who brings us this great, rhythmic recording of the clacking departure board sign at the Ferry Building. For the remix, over a bed of drones created from the original recording, […]
San Franciscan field recorder Rand Lo from Sound Diary San Francisco kindly submitted several of his recordings from around the city to be included in Cities and Memory, inviting us to do the remixing from his original recordings – he’s got some great street audio and documentary audio, so have a listen to his other […]
A short sound clip from San Francisco – one of the tannoy announcements from a trip in San Francisco harbour, encouraging us all to be good citizens and recycle. So, as an obedient citizen, I’ve recycled the sound of the announcement. The remixed version is entirely composed of edited clips of the original 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
