When the traffic disappears, Adelaide
Oct 08, 2022, 08:16 AM
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 neighbour's daughter practising 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. Lockdown sounds features as part of the Well-Being Cities project as evidence of how the sounds of our cities were one of the positive changes that came about during the Covid-19 lockdowns, with lower noise levels and an increased ability to hear the sounds of nature and other personally and culturally nourishing soundscapes.
Recorded by Tristan Louth-Robins.
Part of the Well-Being Cities project, a unique collaboration between Cities and Memory and C40, a global network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. The project was originally presented at the C40 Cities conference in Buenos Aires in 2022. Explore Well-Being Cities in full at https://citiesandmemory.com/wellbeing-cities/
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 neighbour's daughter practising 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. Lockdown sounds features as part of the Well-Being Cities project as evidence of how the sounds of our cities were one of the positive changes that came about during the Covid-19 lockdowns, with lower noise levels and an increased ability to hear the sounds of nature and other personally and culturally nourishing soundscapes.
Recorded by Tristan Louth-Robins.
Part of the Well-Being Cities project, a unique collaboration between Cities and Memory and C40, a global network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. The project was originally presented at the C40 Cities conference in Buenos Aires in 2022. Explore Well-Being Cities in full at https://citiesandmemory.com/wellbeing-cities/