Living anywhere unfamiliar for a period of time, one accumulates bits and pieces - odd objects, tentative friendships, a growing sense of belonging. But memories are the things we collect most. When Next Big Thing producer Sherre DeLys lived in a Belgian village, she went to flea markets to find these things. In this excerpt from a longer piece titled “Ages Ago,” Delys offers some of her mismatched ‘sound objects’ to help us think about the things we collect.
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