Adorned by the following beautiful Calvino quote …
"At times all I need is a brief glimpse… a glint of light in the fog, the dialogue of two passersby meeting in the crowd, and I think that, setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city, made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them."
… is Invisible Cities (wonder where they got that name?), a soundpiece and installation from the Fällt people. They say:
"Curated by Fällt designers Fehler, ‘Invisible Cities’ offers the opportunity to experience an intimate series of portraits of the world’s cities painted with sound. Through the interface of a gallery wall, each city, represented by an audio work of five minutes duration, is accessible through headphones. Participants in the gallery can transcend distance – moving from Moscow to Montreal, from Berlin to Beijing – in the time it takes to plug a pair of headphones into an alternative location."
[via Peter Marsh – thanks!]