Eerie distraction, Berlin
Mar 30, 2020, 02:17 PM
Berlin lockdown sound recorded by Benjamin Yates.
"Some sounds recorded in my apartment in Berlin, today (30 March). Like the rest of Europe, Germany is under lockdown, so movement outside is being kept to a minimum.
"The noises you can hear come from my white noise machine - a useful thing I bought a while back that I use for distraction from the noises of neighbours and construction work in my apartment building. Flicking through these presets this morning - of digitally rendered sounds of birds, frogs, waves, and various other kinds of white and pink noise - I settled on the sound of background chatter from a café.
"This white noise machine has now taken on a new quality during this time of quarantine and isolation, a kind of digital eeriness, featuring uncanny reminders of the outside world and pastimes of the near-past."
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
"Some sounds recorded in my apartment in Berlin, today (30 March). Like the rest of Europe, Germany is under lockdown, so movement outside is being kept to a minimum.
"The noises you can hear come from my white noise machine - a useful thing I bought a while back that I use for distraction from the noises of neighbours and construction work in my apartment building. Flicking through these presets this morning - of digitally rendered sounds of birds, frogs, waves, and various other kinds of white and pink noise - I settled on the sound of background chatter from a café.
"This white noise machine has now taken on a new quality during this time of quarantine and isolation, a kind of digital eeriness, featuring uncanny reminders of the outside world and pastimes of the near-past."
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