I distinctly remember taking this field recording of a football match at Port Vale vs. Sheffield United last December – the temperature was well below freezing, it started to snow heavily during the match and by the time we got half way home we were effectively in a blizzard. But the atmosphere around the ground […]
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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
