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A Celebration Through Sound

I SPEND A LOT of my time walking the streets of Paris listening to and recording the everyday sounds around me, the sound tapestry of the city. Recording urban soundscapes is not as easy as you might… more →

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A Celebration Through Sound — 2 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 2 hours ago: I SPEND A LOT of my time walking the streets of Paris listening to and recording the everyday sounds … more →

Tags: Churches, Eglise Saint-Eustache, Home, eglise saint-eustache, Les Halles, Paris Soundscapes, Recording Urban Soundscapes, Robert Doisneau, Urban Soundscapes

Rue Montorgueil - A Soundwalk — 2 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 6 days ago: WITH ITS COBBLESTONES, bakeries, cheese and wine shops, restaurants and vibrant atmosphere, rue Mont … more →

Tags: Home, Paris Streets, Rue Montorgueil, SoundWalks, Baba au rhum, Jockey Club de Paris, La Pâtisserie Stohrer, L'Escargot, Le Rocher de Cancale

Marche Citoyenne pour la 6éme République — 4 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 1 week ago: ONE YEAR AGO I stood in place de la Bastille amongst a jubilant crowd as they received the news that … more →

Tags: Home, Manifestations, Marche citoyenne pour la 6ème République, Côte d'Ivoire, Front de Gauche, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, la finance et l’austérité, Marche citoyenne pour la 6e République, Place de la Bastille

Passage Choiseul - A Soundwalk — 4 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 2 weeks ago: FOR SOME TIME NOW as part of my Paris Soundscapes project I’ve been recording and archiving the cont … more →

Tags: Home, passage Choiseul, Passage Couverts, SoundWalks, Alphonse Lemeere, Anatole France, Anna Stein, Antoine Tavernier, François Mazois

Les Marionnettes des Champs Elysées — 2 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 3 weeks ago: NESTLING BEHIND A CLUSTER of trees behind the théâtre Marigny and close to the Rond-point des Champs … more →

Tags: Champs-Elysées, Home, Paris Streets, Commedia dell'arte, flageolet, Guentleur, Guignol, Jose Luis González, Laurent Mourguet

Château Rouge - A Soundwalk — 6 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 1 month ago: IT MAY BE ONLY a stone’s throw from the tourist magnet of Montmartre but Château Rouge couldn’t be m … more →

Tags: Home, Paris Streets, Rue Dejean, African community in Paris, African food, Château Rouge, Marché Dejean, Rue Poissonniers, Rue Poulet

Fond Memories and a Soundwalk in Rue Lepic — 6 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 1 month ago: ABOUT ONCE EVERY month or so, I wander up to Pigalle, one of the – how shall I say – one … more →

Tags: Home, Paris Streets, rue lepic, SoundWalks, Home Studio, Le Microphone, Les Doriss Girls, Moulin Rouge, Pigalle

Mairie de Montrouge - Another New Métro Station — 7 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 1 month ago: FOR THE SECOND time in the last three months I’ve been to see a newly opened Paris Métro station. In … more →

Tags: Home, Métro Line 4, Paris Métro, Bagneux, frédéric cuvillier, Front populaire, l’Eglise Saint-Jacques le Majeur, Marie de Montrouge Métro Station, MP-59

Chimes Of Our Times - Past and Present — 18 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 1 month ago: FOR THE LAST FIVE years or so I’ve been recording the contemporary sound tapestry of Paris in, as fa … more →

Tags: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Churches, Home, 18th century soundscape, Aurélie Filippetti, Bertrand Delanoe, Cardinal Vingt-Trois, Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, Emanuel Bell

Hôtel Dieu - The Oldest Hospital in Paris — 4 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 2 months ago: THE HÔTEL DIEU was founded in the middle of the 7th century, which makes it the oldest hospital in P … more →

Tags: Home, SoundWalks, hospitals, bloc opératoire, Hôpital Universitaire de Santé Publique, Hôtel-Dieu, l’Assistance Publique Hôpiteaux de Paris, Parvis du Notre Dame, Soundwalk

Chaine Humaine Anti-Nucléaire

soundlandscapes wrote 2 months ago: THE MARCHING SEASON continues in Paris. Last Tuesday it was a manifestation Contre la Crise et l’Aus … more →

Tags: Home, Manifestations, Chaine Humaine Anti-Nucléaire, chaîne humaine, anti-nucléaire, fukushima, Avenue Henry IV, rue de lyon, anti-nuclear protests

Contre la Crise et l’Austérité — 1 comment

soundlandscapes wrote 2 months ago: It was on 30th September last year when the last big demonstration against the austerity plans conta … more →

Tags: Home, Manifestations, NON au traité d'austérité, Manifestations, CGT, EU Fiscal Pact, Confédération Générale du Travail, force ouvrière

Château de Vincennes

soundlandscapes wrote 2 months ago: IT BEGAN LIFE in the mid 12th century as a royal hunting lodge in the forest of Vincennes in what is … more →

Tags: Home, Château de Vincennes, Medieval Music, Chateau de Vincennes, Chemin de ronde, Louis IX, donjon, fortified keep, Charles V

Rue Saint-Roch - A Street With A Secret — 10 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 2 months ago: AT FIRST SIGHT, the Rue Saint-Roch seems to be an ordinary street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris … more →

Tags: Home, Paris Streets, Churches, rue saint roch, 1st arrondissement, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, François-Henri Clicquot, Eglise Saint-Roch, Marquis de Sade

Chinese New Year - L’Année du Serpent — 6 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 2 months ago: IT’S THAT TIME of the year again, Chinese New Year and it’s goodbye to the year of the dragon and we … more →

Tags: Home, Fêtes, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake, l'année du Serpent, lunisolar Chinese calendar

Paris - A Personal View — 10 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 3 months ago: I AM DELIGHTED TO present a new piece in my Paris – A Personal View series. For each piece in the se … more →

Tags: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Churches, Home, interviews, Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, Paris - A Personal View

Télégraphe - The Highest, Fastest And Deepest — 2 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 3 months ago: N° 40, RUE DU TÉLÉGRAPHE, in the 20th arrondissement, is the highest point in Paris weighing in at 1 … more →

Tags: Home, Paris Métro, Paris Streets, Rue du Télégraphe, Métro Line 11, Claude Chappe, Claude Chappe Semaphore, mechanical telegraph, telegraphe

'Le Gamin de Paris' - And a Soundwalk — 2 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 3 months ago: LAST SATURDAY I headed off for the rue des Martyrs in the 9th arrondissement to record a soundwalk t … more →

Tags: Home, Paris Streets, SoundWalks, Street Music, Place des Abbesses, rue des Martyrs, 9th arrondissiment, Eglise-Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre, Soundwalk

Métro Line 12 Extended to Front Populaire — 4 comments

soundlandscapes wrote 3 months ago: IT’S NOT OFTEN that one gets the chance to visit a brand new Métro station and travel on a brand new … more →

Tags: Home, Paris Métro, Métro Line 12, Paris metro, Front populaire, Mairie d'Issy, Aimé Césaire, Mairie d'Aubervilliers, Porte de la Chapelle


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