Jeffrey Brown:
The call of ravens in the Tower of London, part of the legend of an historic place. He’s playing music at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. They are two among 7,000 recordings from 130 countries and territories around the world, now part of a sound map.
The project called Cities and Memory was created by sound artist Stuart Fowkes.
Stuart Fowkes, Creator, Cities and Memory: It’s about trying to create in some ways a new way of listening to the world, because I’m hoping that when people come to the sound map and listen to some of the sounds on Cities and Memory then maybe the next day when they’re heading off into the metro or for a walk in the woods, maybe they take their headphones off and they just listen to that world, the world around them a little bit more closely than they might have done the day before.
