Resist the air
Apr 13, 2020, 07:32 AM
Monterrey, Mexico lockdown sound recorded by Jeimy Marisol Martinez Galaviz.
"Monterrey, the most polluted city in Mexico, surrounded by cement, glass and steel industries where the noise of the city is made up of machines, trucks, cars and people heading to their jobs very early in the morning, is now a bit of a halt. Waiting to break the stillness that the emergency has caused.
"Silence accompanies the birds, which have now appropriated the city center.
"The air is still polluted, perhaps most industries are dormant, but some pace has subsided. Thus we resist between the particles that affect us, concentrations less than 2.5 microns, now revolted among the virus. But other sounds are heard; perhaps the fact that the birds have not left us is hopeful for those of us who inhabit this chaos. Caring as we can for the green we have left."
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
"Monterrey, the most polluted city in Mexico, surrounded by cement, glass and steel industries where the noise of the city is made up of machines, trucks, cars and people heading to their jobs very early in the morning, is now a bit of a halt. Waiting to break the stillness that the emergency has caused.
"Silence accompanies the birds, which have now appropriated the city center.
"The air is still polluted, perhaps most industries are dormant, but some pace has subsided. Thus we resist between the particles that affect us, concentrations less than 2.5 microns, now revolted among the virus. But other sounds are heard; perhaps the fact that the birds have not left us is hopeful for those of us who inhabit this chaos. Caring as we can for the green we have left."
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