Our stay in the Reeperbahn district as a sonic tourist would unfortunately not be complete without a quick stop inside one of its many sex shops – our intrigue as to whether they might make interesting sonic environments led us into one late into the night, and sonically there’s little but disappointment. It’s banging 4/4 […]
After the moment of calm by the Alster, we head south of the river for a late-night entry to the Old Elbtunnel, a mostly-pedestrian tunnel under the river to St. Pauli. Cars can pass through the narrow tunnel via a lift, but this is closed from the early evening, meaning that later on the tunnel […]
Our second sound from Restive comes from a bird sanctuary in Cape Town – as you’d expect, the field recording is a calming record of the sounds of nature, with the odd bit of cityscape floating into the mix. The remix artfully blends this with more urban sounds and unsettling ambient electronica to create something […]
Last week we were lucky enough to get a whole load of submissions from a South African sound artist called Tristan, who composes and performs under the name Restive (check out his other sounds). He produced an extensive sound installation using field recordings from around Cape Town and his own music, and submitted some special […]
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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
