On 5th April, field recordist and sound artist Chris Watson helped set the CitySounds project into a wider context by presenting recordings from his sound installation Inside the circle of fire: A Sheffield Sound Map. Before a large audience in the Reid Concert Hall, Chris guided us through a project that describes the sound world of the city of his birth in dynamic multichannel sound.
As Chris said: “We tend to hear everything, but we rarely listen. We live in such a noise-polluted environment.” The event was a great opportunity to focus attention on the richness of urban sounds rather than ignoring them.