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Venice sound map
Venice has a unique urban soundscape. Without traffic noise, it is a city where the sound of water and the ringing of more than one hundred church bells prevails over everything.
The Venice Soundmap project is a map of the city which collects recordings of everyday life in Venice, gathered by students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Venice and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice who toured the historic centre of Venice and its islands and recorded the urban soundscape. The map is also available on the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation website.
Everyday sounds of Venice are waves, oars slapping the water of the canals, water flowing in the fountains in campi and calli, or, on very special occasions, sirens announcing high tide. There are as many bells in the city as there are bell towers, each with its own distinctive timbre: a concert that starts early every day. At noon, the bells of San Marco ring along with those of the whole city.
And also: seagulls squawking, gondoliers singing, Venetians shouting at each other, shopping carts stumbling over the bridges, children laughing and playing togheter outside.
Even today, Venice is brimming with ancient know-how that cannot be found elsewhere in the world, local artisan shops with their unique sounds and noises: the sound of the glass furnaces on the island of Murano, the sound of hammers, saws and planes in the squeri, Venice’s traditional gondola shipyards, or the sound of 18th-Century looms still in use in historical weaving companies.
[source: La newsletter di Venezia, N° 12/2021 del 10.06.2021]
[photo by Gerhard G. da Pixabay]
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