Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2988: The emptiness of home
    Mission, USA lockdown recording by Amancio Mercado.
    "The story behind the sounds is the tension that now echoes throughout my home as people have ceased conversation and the daily visits that used to fill my days with joy no longer occurring, with only the wounds of silence and the tapping of my fingers against the wall to fill the tension before I turn on the sewing machine to make handmade masks in order to prepare for what may come in the near future. 
    "The snapping of the threads and the breaths echoing the stress that this has brought to us nothing good coming from the machine meant to help us make the masks as it works for one moment before stopping the next. 
    |For us, it is a matter of staying isolated and trying to find some thing to do throughout the stressful times that this virus has begun to put us through. My message to the global community is stay safe."
    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
  • 2987: Bells in Piombino, during Covid-19 lockdown
    Piombino lockdown sounds recorded by Alessandra Bartali.
    "Every 30 minutes the bells in Piombino ring, but you usually hear passers-by's voices, cars noises and so on together with their ringing. In this period all you can hear mixed to the bells are seagulls flying around. Piombino is a seaside town in Tuscany."
    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
  • 2978: Early morning birdsong in St Leonard's Gardens
    Sussex, UK lockdown sound recorded by Duncan Hunt. 
    "A mix of birdsong recorded in a small urban park, recorded on an early morning walk (6.30am) during the coronavirus lockdown."
    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
  • 2986: Frogs and birds, Belair 2020
    Australian lockdown sound recorded by Ian Gibbins. 
    "Field recording from our garden: in sequence, morning birds; daytime birds, frogs, and passers-by; evening frogs. Reimagined recording: samples of above slowed to at least 25% normal to reflect the new pace of life. Species = Rainbow Lorikeet, Red Wattlebird, Australian Magpie, Little Raven, Grey Currawong, Adelaide Rosella, New Holland Honeyeater, Eastern Common Froglet, Brown Tree Frog."
    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
    12 min
  • 2985: Killeen isolation
    Irish lockdown sound recorded by Jill Beardsworth.
    "This recording was taken during a video art shoot at my house as I filmed a  moving portrait of my son through the window during the Covid-19 isolation period. We live in a rural place, but the absence of all human noise is stark, nature reigns in this sound recording. Recorded at dusk, many birds and insects can be heard as they begin to settle for the night."
    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
  • 2982: Quarantine howl
    California lockdown sound recorded by Nathan Moody.
    "Residents in a California suburb howl and yell in a daily evening ritual during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic."
    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
    7 min
  • 2984: Empty streets: The Red Light District during Covid-19 pandemic
    Amsterdam lockdown sound recorded by Tanja Warning. 
    "The normally extremely crowded Red Light District in Amsterdam is now a place of serenity. Some people are passing by, birds are flying, but it remains kind of 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
    2 min
  • 2981: Ipiranga panelaco
    Sao Paulo, Brazil lockdown sound recorded by Michael Dees. 
    "A protest against the president who was speaking on TV at the time."
    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
  • 2979: San Domenico's bells
    Bari lockdown sound recorded by Roberto Lippolis.
    "The voice of the bells in the silence of the 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
    2 min
  • 2978: Coronasilence with clock
    London lockdown sound recorded by Hugh Sykes.
    "The sound of an old clock ticking and striking in house in north London where there used to be traffic sounds from the street and planes overhead."
    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

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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.