In light of Soundwalk’s various site-specific projects in the works to be featured in China, Europe, and the United States, we’d like to send word of our travels in the form of weekly installments of sound recordings from the Soundwalk archives, made around the world by our sound artists over the past few years, and the accompanying photography.

We’ll begin with an excerpt from our new sound project, La Brulure, which evokes the heat of summer at its most basic and primal. La Brulure is the first in a series of limited-edition Soundwalk releases with custom-designed letterpress packaging.

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“In a solitary trek along the Mediterranean coasts from Spain to Greece, along the south of France, through Italy, Montenegro, and Albania… Stephan Crasneanscki of Soundwalk records the sulfurous fury of summer. It all begins with sound.

It is that of a cricket in the heart of summer, which, in the intoxication of a lovesong, perishes, sucked dry, burnt by the rays of the sun.

It is the memory of childhood under the sky of vacation, always denser and more blue. The memories of adolescence which burn our skin. Bodily desire, sensual pleasure, betrayal.

The encounters of one night, of one day, the fever of a summer without sleeping. When the spirit is consumed and the passion does not rest.

The trance of cicadas, the music and the songs collected in villages, which like ripples of heat in the air rise to the surface.”

We hope you enjoy the summer’s first installment of recordings from the archives.