Today’s field recording takes in a recent huge, short thunderstorm to hit London in May 2014, and was submitted by electronica artist Si Begg (AKA Cabbageboy, Buckfunk 3000 etc.), who recorded it upon hearing the storm from his studio in north London and submitted it. It’s one of a few storm samples we’ve had submitted […]
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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
