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The birdsong on a downtown street in Paris where before there was only jams. The applause at 8 o'clock in the afternoon from the balconies of Madrid, Barcelona or Teruel. An unheard of solitary and dumb Times Square . Waves on an Icelandic beach . Turning the pages of a book in an Amsterdam apartment . Or the rocking of the waters among the empty gondolas of Venice.

The coronavirus has transformed the daily life of cities through confinement. And these are some of the sounds that are heard these days of quarantine on half a planet. They have been collected by British music composer Stuart Fowkes through #StayHomeSounds, a virtual project that, so far, has already collected 3,500 sounds from 650 people confined in 95 countries around the world.

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Where before there was a movement of passers-by, car beeps and screams, now there is silence. At most, the rumor of nature looming from afar. Not surprisingly, wildlife has taken to the streets of major cities, with goats appearing at stoplights, peacocks on sidewalks, and wolves in the middle of an urban park, right next to some now-empty swings.

Sound Art Podcasts

What Fowkes has done is give continuity to his Cities and Memories portal, a collaborative sound art project in which, since 2004, he has been asking citizens from all over the planet to contribute to explore the different sounds of the planet . In this way, podcasts like these arise from the songs of the confinement or loneliness of Times Square.

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Applause can also be heard from healthcare personnel in countries such as Spain or the United Kingdom . The audios are usually accompanied by images that are "combined and reimagined" giving rise to new documentary files encompassed under the concept of "remixing the world".

Sound tourism around the world

It is the goal of the musician, who from his home in Oxford (United Kingdom) has set out to show the reality of confinement behind the four walls in which the population is confined. The result is a kind of "sound tourism" , in the words of Fowkes himself, which allows some way to alleviate the confinement within his personal initiative Cities and Memories.

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The project is open to everyone , so the only thing anyone who wants to participate in it has to do is record with their mobile phones what they are experiencing since their confinement and upload it with the hashtag #StayHomeSounds. It must be accompanied by a brief history of what is happening at that time.

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