The Garden Ring
Jul 19, 11:00 AM
"Now I live in the center of Moscow, next to the highway (for 5 years already). There is continuous road noise nearby. And it's very similar to another sound.
"Before Moscow I used to live in Vietnam (7 years) near the sea and there was also the noise - the sustained and continuous sound of the sea. My note: the sounds have a different nature: one is natural, the other is industrial. The common denominator is sound volume and continuity. And there is a rhythm. By the sea it is a wave that grows and then collapses. The flow of cars has a rhythm regulated by traffic lights.
"It's nice to notice how I can control attention: I can listen to it out loud or not notice it at all."
Recorded by Lara Levi.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
"Before Moscow I used to live in Vietnam (7 years) near the sea and there was also the noise - the sustained and continuous sound of the sea. My note: the sounds have a different nature: one is natural, the other is industrial. The common denominator is sound volume and continuity. And there is a rhythm. By the sea it is a wave that grows and then collapses. The flow of cars has a rhythm regulated by traffic lights.
"It's nice to notice how I can control attention: I can listen to it out loud or not notice it at all."
Recorded by Lara Levi.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration