Two mornings (21,915 days and 8,480 km apart)

A reflection on distance, time and listening.

Morning sounds captured on reel-to-reel tape in Chocó, Colombia in 1965 meet digital recordings made sixty years later in Forest Gate, East London.

Morning soundscape among the Chocó people reimagined by Asher Levitas.

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Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Explore the full project at citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds