Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 3200: Eating Cheetos
    Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Isabella Lootens.
    "I have been quarantining now for 2 months. It has been kind of hard and sad, I'm a very sociable person so staying at home for this long is very uncomfortable for me. Eating has been one of the few happy things, especially eating unhealthy snack like cheetos (!) As for my country and community things have been very intense. 
    "I live in Brazil, if you take two seconds to read about our situation you'll see how crazy it has been for us. 
    First of all our president is completely nuts and simply does not really care about his people, he has said over and over that we shouldn't be in quarantine because it's going to destroy the country's economy... like I'm pretty sure thousands and thousands of people dying will also ruin the economy but ok. 
    "Some of his other statements were that the coronavirus is just a "little cold" and the exact words "so what, so sorry, what do you want me to do?" when reporters confronted him about the enormous and rising number of deaths. 
    "He also fired the Minister of Health because he was following the OMS' recommendations, yup that's it! The Minister was telling people to stay at home, wear masks, wash their hands and well Bolsonaro just didn't like that.... Oh and he has also promoted two protests since the pandemic started, yes protests filled with people and no social distancing. 
    "One of the protests was against the Supreme Court and the other against the quarantine. So yeah it has been a very crazy and incredibly hard 2 months and with this lunatic in power we will probably stay in quarantine for way longer."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    1 min
  • 3199: Fim de tarde em quarentena
    Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Letitia Gomes.
    "Approximately 6 pm on May 15, 2020, next to parking lot 8 of Parque da Cidade. Cat playing on the grass near the recording device, bell rings nearby, moderate wind, motorcycle passes by."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    4 min
  • 3198: Quarantined supermarket
    Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Diego de Leon.
    "A rare visit to the supermarket during quarantine."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    3 min
  • 3196: Backyard sounds from Brasilia
    Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Marcelo Pedroso.
    "It's the sound of my backyard during many times of the day. Doing that made me think how nature is living on normally and probably better since there are less humans to pollute the environment. Not just in Brazil but in the entire world."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    6 min
  • 3197: Rural flight
    Gavião de Rodão, Portugal lockdown sound recorded by Rita Correia.
    "Our house was in the centre of Lisbon, until a year ago when my dad decided to change his life and moved to the countryside. My grandparents live close by, in another village, so it was often that I came to visit and as I growed up I enjoyed the quietness above all.  
    "My grandparents show a lot of gratitude for their quiet lives, gardening and having animals, and they praise the serenity. Nevertheless, there is not a day that I don't hear them sadly regret the abandon of the neighbours' houses and lands, the exit of people - do to rural exodus -  the upcoming of a ghost town in a place where their memories of a busy life seem to vanish with no one to remember about. 
    "Here In this village next door where I am currently living, the situation is quite similar. For me, I again appreciate the quietness, but for the ones that remember and miss a large community, this quietness is the sound of a life ending. 
    "In Covid-19 times, a lot of people here and at my grandparents village as well, they say that their lives haven't changed much or at all. I share this soundscape that I record from my bedroom window. I can also say that what I hear now, and what I was hearing here before the pandemic, it's nothing different. 
    "I think that this social isolation we are experience globally will make us more attuned to people in situations like this regardless of Covid-19, and hopefully make us more compassionate towards them and also dedicated to decentralising from city centres and building more community based lifestyles. 
    "You mainly hear birds, as they feed from people's gardens as well and so stay around. You can hear very far the sound of the highway, something recent for the oldest here. And I found funny hearing myself whistling to my dog, made me think I must have learn it from birds. "
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    5 min
  • 3195: Locked inside as the world is still moving
    Ceilandia, Brazil lockdown sound recorded by Thais Stephannie Freitas.
    "I'm a teacher and a student, when quarantine started I began to spend most of my time in my office in front of a computer. My desk is in front of window, so I often listen to what's happening outside and can look at a nice view. On the recording you can listen to me working as multiple vehicles pass on the streets near my building. My country isn't respecting quarantine properly, so while I fell locked inside there's still a lot of people moving carelessly."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    3 min
  • 3194: Sounds from my window, Brasilia
    Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Nathalia B. 
    "Sound comes from my room in the morning. My country is divided between people who care about health and the crazy people who follow my country's irresponsible president. Coming from me and my family, we are having the responsibility to maintain our health and those of the people we come into contact with, always maintaining what health helps us, and respecting others. We avoid leaving the house as much as possible, and even then only one person is responsible for leaving (cases of needs, market and pharmacy)."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    5 min
  • 3194: Wind machines
    Brasilia lockdown sound recorded by Joao Cavalcante Jose de Morais.
    "I need to use two fans so I can get my room cool enough so I can work on my computer without even so much as burning my fingers, so that's that. My country's president is a murderous genocide which will kill us all with coronavirus by making the population think it is nothing to worry about."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    2 min
  • 3193: Birdsong during lockdown
    Brighton, UK lockdown sound recorded by Vicky Roupa.
    "On a morning walk not far from home, I noticed how audibly the birds were singing. Living close to a busy road, I'd been aware of birdsong in previous years but it had been largely drowned out by passing traffic. This spring has been completely different in this respect, as in so many others. It seems that by suppressing human activity, the lockdown has opened possibilities for nature to expand and thrive. In this recording, the melodious song of blackbirds and great tits is intermixed with the sounds of seagulls enjoying some early morning intimacies."
    Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
    3 min
  • 3192: The halo of sound
    Cartmel Priory bells reimagined by Karst.
    "When I made the field recording I was particularly inspired by the halo of sound that hovers over the bells and the priory, there's an incredible energy in the sound that I wanted to try and capture. Having said that, the real and processed versions are pretty different! 
    "The reimagined version was made from several elements of the field recording combined with an organ drone (unfortunately not a real one) and fragments of a repurposed soundscape I created back in 1996 whilst at Dartington College. 
    "The repurposed sounds were recorded with DAT and manipulated using a very early version of Pro-Tools. The rest was completed using a Zoom recorder and Logic."
    4 min

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