Montréal, la nuit gouvernée
Apr 18, 2020, 10:19 AM
Montreal lockdown sound recorded by Hubert Gendron-Blais.
"A field recording captured during the first night of the extension of the powers of the police in the sanitary state of emergency. Recorded from a backdoor balcony in a rainy night, a soundscape « normally » dominated by a varying combination of traffic reverberated on the brick walls, the big fan of the restaurant downstairs, the passing of some walkers. But that night was strangely quiet.
|"A tensed, imposed quietness: from now on, anyone who will be accused to break the exception laws of « public health » could get important fines. (That will be the case of hundred of people in the city in the days after, including homeless people, street workers, etc.).
"If, as the Invisible Committee underlines, the structure of contemporary power takes the form of the material, technological and physical organisation of the world, in short if power is the very order of things, this environmental order could sometimes be more perceptible in ambient noises rather than in the analysis of the explicit statements of the administration. That incessant siren far away wasn’t the noise of our overheating nerves then."
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
"A field recording captured during the first night of the extension of the powers of the police in the sanitary state of emergency. Recorded from a backdoor balcony in a rainy night, a soundscape « normally » dominated by a varying combination of traffic reverberated on the brick walls, the big fan of the restaurant downstairs, the passing of some walkers. But that night was strangely quiet.
|"A tensed, imposed quietness: from now on, anyone who will be accused to break the exception laws of « public health » could get important fines. (That will be the case of hundred of people in the city in the days after, including homeless people, street workers, etc.).
"If, as the Invisible Committee underlines, the structure of contemporary power takes the form of the material, technological and physical organisation of the world, in short if power is the very order of things, this environmental order could sometimes be more perceptible in ambient noises rather than in the analysis of the explicit statements of the administration. That incessant siren far away wasn’t the noise of our overheating nerves then."
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