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How did fence posts end up being played at the Olympics opening ceremony? @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social talks us through the story of the wonderful aluphone, and how it encourages us to think of sound as a food diet.
ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for our Metropolis project! 🏙️🤖 The first crowdsourced soundtrack to this cinematic landmark marks its 100th anniversary as we bring the sonic techniques of 2027 to this 1927 icon.
There are 72 spaces on the project - find out more and apply: citiesandmemory.com/metropolis
ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for our Metropolis project! 🏙️🤖 The first crowdsourced soundtrack to this cinematic landmark marks its 100th anniversary as we bring the sonic techniques of 2027 to this 1927 icon.
There are 72 spaces on the project - find out more and apply: citiesandmemory.com/metropolis
These wonderful instruments can teach us a lot about listening - but what does listening mean to you? You have until 19 June to take part in our amazing project Ways of Listening, whether you’re a musician, a poet, a writer, a filmmaker, a photographer or an artist. citiesandmemory.com/listening/
The amazing NTS Radio are running a one-hour special on our Century of Sounds project with @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social.
You can tune in live at 12pm UK time on Friday 22 May on NTS 2: www.nts.live/shows/guests...
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My collab with yamo aka Momose Yasunaga for @citiesandmemory.bsky.social
yamo: "I created a collage of sounds-incorporating the exotic resonance of bells and the lyrical whisper of the wind as it drifts through narrow alleyways."
music.youtube.com/watch?v=j-iF...
Now released via @citiesandmemory.bsky.social a #newmusic track from me featuring audio from Gare Du Nord in Paris with piped fake #birdsong.
'This is not a simulation?'
re-imagines the audio recording into a #surreal and #glitchy #ambient #soundscape.
audioboom.com/posts/891132...
Jeff Brown
I'm happy to contribute a new piece to the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring 2026 Project. "the road was there" is a piece for electric guitar and electronics that blends drone, ambient, and field recording sounds. Give it a listen below!
audioboom.com/posts/891431...
Taylor Nuttall
I made this piece for the @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Spring Project using a recording from inside of the gate to Auschwitz II, Birkenau made by by Anders Vinjar.
audioboom.com/posts/890839...
Chris Cresswell
Jon Griffin
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"‘This is not a simulation?’ - raises the question what is real, am I dreaming, are we in an alternate reality?
"There are so many extraordinary moments in Claude Lanzmann’s nine hour documentary, Shoah but it’s the interviews with the railway workers and the train drivers that helped facilitate the horror...
"T'he road was there' uses a field recording made by Mark Wilden. The recording is of the Hackberry General Store, a famous road stop on Route 66 in Arizona, USA. I was enamored with the ...
