{"id":6730,"date":"2026-02-24T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humus-digitalmag.com\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:26:36","slug":"stuart-fowkes-the-sounds-tell-the-story-of-the-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humus-digitalmag.com\/en\/stuart-fowkes-the-sounds-tell-the-story-of-the-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Fowkes: \u201cThe sounds tell the story of the cities\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stuart Fowkes is a sound artist. He has been working with sound and recording for over 15 years, but he initially used sound for music projects. \u201cI\u2019ve always had the perspective that all sound has potential, or can be music<\/em>\u201d, Fowkes explains. The website <\/strong>Cities and Memory<\/em><\/strong><\/a> was created in 2015 when he started combining this interest in sound with his passion for maps. <\/strong>\u201cEvery map has a particular perspective, whether it\u2019s cultural or political. So I came up with this idea of bringing together the discipline of field recording and remix culture; putting them together in one place.<\/em>\u201d For Fowkes the memory of a city exists in layers, both of physical space and of time. Sound, he believes, is a fundamental element that tells the story of cities, which change over the course of days, weeks and years.<\/strong> \u201cTo me, it\u2019s much more impactful to listen to a field recording of New York City and hear the steam coming out of the pavements and the sirens of the fire engines going past and the noise from the buildings than it is to see a photo of Manhattan.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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