The latest excerpt from our Sounding Nature project is an examination of the urban sounds of nature, taken from Central Park in New York City. Hundreds of starlings argue, fight and feed in this world-famous park, but their calls have to compete with an incredible amount of urban noise – this recording demonstrates just how. […]
The sounds of church organs were some of the most striking sounds in Sacred Spaces – today we wanted to take the time to highlight just four to you, which have some remarkably beautiful reimagined counterparts.
Where else could we start our sonic tour of Bath than at its most iconic location, and indeed the one from which it takes its name – the Bath Spa.
Hans-Albers-Platz in the centre of the Reeperbahn area, is really party central, in a touristy sort of way – Irish bars, drinking in the square, singing, dancing and more drinking makes for a raucous atmosphere even on a weeknight. San Francisco’s Stanislav Nikolov has taken this sound, plus one of a busker at Sternschanze (see […]
Eleven o’clock and we head out to the lively, studenty area of Sternschanze, always bustling with life. Leaving the station, we come across a busker playing bass guitar through an amp, and wandering up the road there’s a late-night game of football going on, echoing our first sound from 12 noon today. Here, San Francisco’s […]
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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
