As this wave from memories flows in
Oct 13, 12:07 PM
Standing atop the TV Tower in Tallinn, with the city opening up around you, the rising sound almost feels like the inhalation and exhalation of the city itself, as it comes to life each morning through the breath of its citizens awakening.
This composition highlights the emotions felt while standing 300 metres above the city, listening to its gentle inhalations as the low drones and pulses of life itself rise up on every side.
The title is particularly resonant, coming from the quote from Calvino's Invisible Cities that features on every single page of the Cities and Memory website, summing up as it does much of our perspective on sound and experience:
"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."
This composition highlights the emotions felt while standing 300 metres above the city, listening to its gentle inhalations as the low drones and pulses of life itself rise up on every side.
The title is particularly resonant, coming from the quote from Calvino's Invisible Cities that features on every single page of the Cities and Memory website, summing up as it does much of our perspective on sound and experience:
"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."