Every place has a soundtrack

A room is not only its walls. It is what has been played in it, by whom, and how long anyone remembered.

One song per person per place, and only while you are standing in it.

nobody can add this
from a laptop

turn it. there is more round the back.

Plate I — the world, as heard

Every mark is a real coordinate, checked against OpenStreetMap rather than drawn by eye.

The index

Sun Studio · Memphis

Cut here on 5 July 1954 and often called the first rock and roll record.

Hansa Studios · Berlin

Recorded in 1977, with the Berlin Wall visible from the control room.

Garota de Ipanema · Rio de Janeiro

Written at a table in this bar in 1962. The street outside was renamed after it.