Welcome to Sonic City

collecting the stories and sounds of Leeds

Sonic City is an exciting new project for Leeds, bringing alive the landmark buildings and public spaces of the city through recorded sound and stories. It is a contemporary sound archive and a unique opportunity to experience a city through the voices of its people. Find out more

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Sonic Carnival Musical traditions in carnival. Max Farrar traces the developement of musical traditions over the 40 years' history of the carnival. He discusses, Calypso, Steel Pan, Sound System, Soca and the most recent Electric Soca. (((Listen))) - Flash (((Listen))) - Windows Media Player Your comments