There are 1,111 clocks ticking away in the tower of Perrott’s Folly in Birmingham, England: one on the ground floor, ten a floor up, one hundred the floor after that, and, as pictured here, one full thousand on the top floor. Thus it is a tower of clocks, rather than a clock tower: The exhibit...

From The Strain, the new vampire novel by Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Pan’s Labyrinth, the forthcoming two-part The Hobbit) and Chuck Hogan (The Prince of Thieves): “Now she was hearing it again. Same noise she’d been hearing since arriving for her shift, only steadier now, louder. A humming. A...

38 tracks (including twelve 10-seconds silent tracks) To play on shuffle mode. Total time 66mn Free CD published by pedagogical network Erasme and Rhône area, France, 2007 Lionel Marchetti is a French electroacoustic music composer (b1967) who started releasing discs in 1993 under the influence of Michel Chion. Since then he released highly original discs like ‘Portrait d’un glacier’(2001), [...]

01 A1 (10:01) 02 A2 (3:56) 03 A3 (6:57) 04 A4 (2:33) 05 B1 (7:55) 06 B2 (15:19) Total time 46:40 LP released by Toronto Music Gallery Editions, 1978 On their first album, Toronto’s Glass Orchestra (members: Paul Hodge, John Kuipers, V. Eric Cadersky, Miguel Frasconi, Marvin Green) explore all the sonic possibilities of glass objects and glass instruments, sometimes with the addition [...]