Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 3152: Lockdown morning in Hyderabad
    Hyderabad, India lockdown sound recorded by Varun Venugopal.
    "I am a sound recordist working in film and television from Hyderabad.
    "When the lockdown was announced everybody took it up to stay at home for a change, and result of the following day was unbelievable. 
    "When i woke up at around 7AM it was as if something had gone wrong, I couldn't hear a single vehicle that is usually blaring. I ran out to see if what I was hearing was legit. 
    "I stepped out onto my terrace to see it was bliss to be surrounded in clean and quiet air. There was a vendor who was selling vegetables in the morning."
    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
  • 3151: Parma on lockdown
    Parma, Italy lockdown sound recorded by Marilena Karagkiozi. 
    "This soundscape is a composition of acoustic stories recorded at the exact same spot, my apartment window. I live in the center of the city of Parma in Italy and the project covers the past two months of the lockdown. 
    "I am giving you a short description of the sounds you are hearing but not in the order you are hearing them.
     
    "A woman wearing a rose-pink fluffy jacket passing down the street and singing. Children drawing chalk paint dinosaurs on the alley. Rain in the night and someone playing the piano. A military jeep, patrols. A bicycle. Singing birds all over. Someone throwing the garbage away and someone whispering a swear word. Five dogs with five bell collars.  Verdi's Rigoletto from the street’s megaphones. 
    "You are free to create your own narrative."
    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
  • 3150: Birdless time near Bordeaux
    Floirac, France lockdown sound recorded by Stephane Bardex. 
    "I’m living in Bordeaux's outskirt (France). It’s been now around 6 weeks I’m staying at home with my family. As we do have a balcony and plenty of sunny days (unlike the picture!), life is rather easy. We adapted and tried to find the good balance to live together all day long. « Cooking is the teacher, Drinking good wine is the preacher », you know. Homeworking since the beginning of containment, I consider myself damn lucky.
    "Did a couple of soundtakes on the same day. On the previous one you could hear birds singing (quite loud!) and some funk music played mellow in the neighborhood. It was a good ambience. Only a couple of minutes later for this soundtake, the birds must have gone to sleep and music  stopped; the result is much more… quiet."
    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
  • 3148: The sounds of Shorewood
    Shorewood, USA lockdown sound recorded by Noah Kaufman.
    "A block away, construction is occurring. Trees are being cut down and roads are being replaced. Not many people are out, but you can hear the those working in the background."
    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
  • 3149: Sounds of the farm
    Howard's Grove, USA lockdown sound recorded by Noah Kaufman.
    "Sitting outside of the barn, the goats are talking and the dog is responding."
    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
  • 3137: Isolation rain
    Los Angeles lockdown sound recorded by DCPete.
    "Los Angeles is not known for rain but we had buckets and buckets of it lately which timed coincidentally with the onslaught of the pandemic and "safe at home" restrictions. Rain was the soundtrack to our initiation to these Quarantine Blues."
    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
  • 3147: Almost nothing | Almost everything
    Milan lockdown sound recorded by Sergio Armaroli.
    "Sunday morning, April 19, 2020, Milan: at the center of the pandemic. I recorded and edited in a sound meta-landscape from two listening points, 10 am, approximately. Listening to my cats. The passage of tram 1, symbol of the city, and some occasional cars. I leave the imprint of the voice with the wind gently hitting the microphone.
    "Reversing the time: internal / external. I pick up the sound of the city from my terrace on the street and inside the Eco of the courtyard. In the distance voices and the ignition of the gas as a signal.Dialectically from two points towards a change of perspective. Towards a listening society. To Luc Ferrari, in memory."
    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
    10 min
  • 3146: Walking to my workplace downtown
    Trento lockdown sound recorded by Stella Fantin.
    "I'm Stella, I live in Trento (Italy). My job is considered an essential service. Because of that, I'm allowed to go from my house to my workplace and return to the deserted city."
    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
  • 3145: Ambulance siren in Higienópolis
    Sao Paulo lockdown sound recorded by Isadora Martins.
    "Here in Brazil most of the states are experiencing social isolation. The marjority of the population is following the health recommendations, but there are also the stubborn ones who don't care about hygienic measures. I live nearby some hospitals and I have the perception that the ambulance sirens noise has increased here."
    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
  • 3144: Una mattina...
    Rome lockdown sound recorded by Chiara Stefani.
    "Since this quarantine has started, every day there's such a lovely habit here. We meet with neighbours, on the balconies, to chat, listen or sing songs together. 
    "During this period we have also celebrated a birthday and a wedding anniversary .
    "Today we discovered that one of our neighbours is a talented flute player, 'cause she played for us a special, stunning song, "Bella ciao", to  remind us how liberty is essential, and we can't take it for granted. Buon 25 aprile."
    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

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Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world.