Think back to a favorite place...do you recall what it sounded like? Sound can be a powerful trigger for memories, and the Cities and Memory project plays with this phenomenon by collecting and mapping user-submitted field recordings along with remixed "sonic reimaginings" of those recordings. Founded by UK sound artist and musician Stuart Fowkes, Cities and Memory has a global scope, featuring...

Hosted and maintained by Sven E. Carlsson, a Swedish educator, this Web site is an excellent source of information about that one element of filmmaking that is sometimes overlooked due to its ubiquity: sound. Persons curious to read a brief overview of film sound will want to start with an essay titled "An Introduction to Film Sound," by Jane Knowles Marshall. After this, they may want to look...