We’re into February already, which means it’s time for our first roundup of 2015’s best sounds so far. On our wintery journey, we start in a bitterly cold Turin as the clocks strike and fireworks herald the coming of 2015, and throughout the month we’ve explored New York City, Venice, Cardiff, Canterbury, Trento and even […]
We’re off to beautiful Canterbury today, a quintessentially English town in Kent, and a visit to the parks at Westgate Gardens, courtesy of local sound artist Sam Rogerson. He told us about how he chose and composed the piece: “The piece “Parks” was composed for one of my undergraduate degree modules following the idea of […]
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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
