"Stay at home" ambulance message, Milan
Apr 08, 2020, 01:12 PM
Milan lockdown sound recorded by Sara Passoni.
"Milano, Lombardy, Italy, March 29th: the local police is driving around the neighborhood, urging the population to stay at home by means of a recorded message on behalf of the city mayor, which is played through a loudspeaker.
"Meanwhile, one of the countless ambulances is running for the next emergency. No traffic: only birds and ambulances can be heard in a normally very busy and loud city.
"Lombardy has paid the highest death toll in Italy. We've sung together from our balconies, we've made friends with our neighbors: I drink aperitifs with them at dusk, each of us from our balcony, and we have a chat together. It helps feeling we're not alone, that we care for each other."
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
"Milano, Lombardy, Italy, March 29th: the local police is driving around the neighborhood, urging the population to stay at home by means of a recorded message on behalf of the city mayor, which is played through a loudspeaker.
"Meanwhile, one of the countless ambulances is running for the next emergency. No traffic: only birds and ambulances can be heard in a normally very busy and loud city.
"Lombardy has paid the highest death toll in Italy. We've sung together from our balconies, we've made friends with our neighbors: I drink aperitifs with them at dusk, each of us from our balcony, and we have a chat together. It helps feeling we're not alone, that we care for each other."
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