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Sound bites

The everyday noise of three cities is captured for a fascinating Aberdeen-led investigation of sonic identity. By Kate Molleson in The Herald

Not music ... just sounds: maybe the hum of a fridge or the clunk of a front door; the whirr of a bicycle wheel, the drone of a motorway, the polyrhythmic tapping of an office full of keyboards. If you live in a city, think of the noises particular to its streets – the ones you'd recognise as home if you moved away. Sounds so familiar you'd only really notice them if they went silent.

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