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  • Norient City Sounds: Bogotá

    Norient City Sounds: Bogotá

    Norient has released a new “City Sounds” special, this time dedicated to Bogotá, Colombia. Curated by writer and cultural manager Luisa Fernanda Uribe and developed by a wide collective effort, the wonderful special goes into Bogotá’s layers, spirits, diversity, all…

  • Urban Auscultation: Perceiving the Action of the Heart

    Urban Auscultation: Perceiving the Action of the Heart

    New article by Shannon Mattern at Places Journal on urban soundscape and the importance of listening to the city nowadays. “For months, the Covid-19 virus has passed from body to body around the world. Its corporeal work is silent, but…

  • The Sound of City: Milan

    The Sound of City: Milan

    https://vimeo.com/162342149 Italian sound artist and composer Chiara Luzzana has been working on a project called The Sound Of City, whose goal is to explore and capture the sounds of cities and then turn them into soundtracks, mixing electronic music and…

  • [Publication] Caroline Claus: Urban Sound Design Process

    [Publication] Caroline Claus: Urban Sound Design Process

    “The book by Caroline Claus can serve as an introduction to the topic of urban sound studies, presenting the current concepts and terminology used in the field of sound studies, as well as experimental techniques for studying and experiencing urban…

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    The Acoustic City Matthew Gandy & Benny Nielsen The Acoustic City consists of a series of cutting-edge essays on sound and the city, and a specially commissioned CD. The book is comprised of five thematic sections: sound mappings, sound cultures,…

  • Cities & Memory

    Cities & Memory

    Cities and Memory is a sound programme that records both the present reality of a place, but also its imagined, alternative counterpart – remixing the world, one sound at at time. Every faithful field recording document here is accompanied by a reworking,…