Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2962: Home office, second week
    Hong Kong lockdown sound recorded by GutGut.
    "The Hong Kong government has implemented more and more restrictions on public space and gathering. Schools suspended for months. Many companies adopted special shifting arrangement. Home office working is advised. This is my second week working from home. Sometimes I can hear bird sings, sometimes it's noisy..."
    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
  • 2961: A morning in Adelaide, 22nd March 2020
    Adelaide lockdown sound recorded by Tristan Louth-Robins.
    "This is a recording from the Adelaide suburb of Parkside. It was made on my upstairs balcony in a block of six town houses at 10am on Wednesday, 22 March 2020. 
    "It was a bright and sunny Autumn morning with a very faint breeze. In this recording you can hear the lively birdsong of lorikeets, honeyeaters, finches and native pigeons. 
    "Traffic can be heard *very* faintly to the right of the field, whilst a solitary car will travel up our street every few minutes. A smattering of human activity can be heard in the foreground of the recording, but a steady continuum of activity comes from our next door neighbours daughter practicing on an upright piano with their front door open. You may also hear the sound of surfaces creaking/expanding from the warmth of the sun."
    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
    16 min
  • 2959: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom
    Listening back to the recording of Land's End on a miserable, rainy day in the circumstances of a more or less total lockdown in the UK due to the global coronavirus pandemic, I was filled with both a strong urge to be there, standing at the edge of the cliff and gazing out to sea, but also a sense of profound melancholy for the world's colossal halt this year.
    Around the same time, I'd heard an absolutely beautiful recording of Sir Patrick Stewart reading out Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, with the devastating couplet:
    Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom
    These two things came together into this mournful piece, which at once yearns to be out in the wilds of nature, but laments for the world's grinding lockdown to end safely for as many of us as possible.
    Reimagined by Cities and Memory, and I hope Sir Patrick doesn't mind the use of his beautiful reading.
    3 min
  • 2959: A desolate promontory at the end of our country
    It's a miserable afternoon in a beautiful part of the country - Land's End is (obviously!) one of the remotest spots in the UK, once you get past the attendant gift shops and gaudy entertainment that has been put in place to commemorate the fact. 
    Today, though, the weather is so horrible that everything is closed, and there are no tourists, so we can experience it as it was meant to be - a desolate promontory that juts out into the ocean, the very end of our country and an unforgettable vista - just don't turn around. 
    In this recording you can hear the rain coming down in a heavy, constant sheet, but there's also a mysterious, consistent and regular beep coming from one of the buildings behind us, which gives the recording a really sinister edge. 
    Recorded by Cities and Memory.
    2 min
  • 2958: Clap for the NHS part 2
    Brighton lockdown sound recorded by Peter Myson.
    "This is the second 'National Applause' for NHS and other key workers during the coronavirus lockdown of 2020. 
    "I left the recorder on my roof so for three minutes all you hear is the birdsong coming in from over the cemetery and at 3.00 fireworks go off to mark 8pm and the beginning of applause that you can hear directly from Newmarket Rd but also rippling in from across the 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
    6 min
  • 2959: Applause for the NHS, Croydon, UK
    Croydon lockdown sound recorded by Daryn Brown.
    "Wednesday March 26, 2020. I hung a microphone out of my studio window and waited for the applause to begin. So far, all is well."
    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
  • 2960: Clap For Our Carers - 2 April 2020, UK
    Bristol lockdown sound recorded by Ollie Hall.
    "This was the second #ClapForOurCarers event since the Covid-19 lockdown.
    "At such a challenging time it's so comforting to see and hear our neighbours come together in support of our NHS and keyworkers."
    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
  • 2961: Más miedo al hambre que a la muerte
    Monterrey, Mexico lockdown sound recorded by Magda Martinez.
    "In the middle of the pandemic, life goes on, the birds sing, the city roars. Taxi horns honk for passengers, as proof that the fear of hunger is greater than contagion and its possible consequences."
    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
  • 2962: East Meadow in Central Park the day before it was converted to a COVID-19 Field Hospital
    New York lockdown sound recorded by Peggy Nelson.
    "I live in East Harlem and have been going out for a solo, socially-distanced walk every day; my usual route took me down the eastern edge of Central Park through the East Meadow, where I recorded the sounds that make up this recording on several adjacent days at the tail end of March. 
    "The city is quiet yet not - birdsong mingles with the echoing sirens and helicopters, which sound even louder both for the lack of other background traffic noise, the perfect echo chambers of the apartment-blocked streets, and the increased frequency of emergency trips. Yet the overall ambiance is conceptually noisy still, not in actual sounds, but in what we know are the causes for the relative silence. 
    "The East Meadow has since been converted into a field hospital full of tents, for the expected overflow from Mt. Sinai Hospital, which is right across the street. This recording is my sonic postcard from, and love letter to,  #StayAtHome New York."
    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
  • 2957: Lunchtime under lockdown in Le Marche
    Le Marche, Italy lockdown recording by Mauro Pennacchietti.
    "I live in a 1,900 people hill top village in Le Marche. In front of home I have the castle walls that are more 900 years old. 
    "Since the coronavirus lockdown everything has gone quiet and I can hear the countryside cockerels and dogs, and during the night I can hear frogs. I’m looking forward to summer with cicadas and crickets.
    "This is a lunchtime stereo recording in which you can hear dogs, Streptopelia decaocto (Eurasian collared dove), Corvus monedula (western jackdaw), Serinus serinus (European serin), Sylvian atracapilla (Eurasian blackcap)"
    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

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