Sounding Belfast During Covid-19 (Lockdowns)
room 78 ECHOES
What you need: Mobile phone + headphones/earphones Instructions: Go to one of the 17 locations on the map (listed below), walk into the circle, and audio will play (can press pause/play also).
Description: During a global pandemic, countries and cities have become literal ghost towns. Once flustered with sounds from human activities, it has now been overtaken from the once subtle industrial, urban, and natural sound environments. Recording multiple points during the lockdown, we are able to chronologically experience the differences imposed by Covid-19 restrictions and how these spaces have changed from the start of the global pandemic. The recordings focus on periods of Lockdowns (1-3), the Exit Strategies (Summers 2020 and 2021), as well as the Removed Restrictions.
Currently, there are 78 audio files on the map and 17 areas recorded: 1. Albert Memorial Clock 2. Arthur Square 3. Belfast City Hall 4. Botanic Gardens 5. Cathedral Quarter 6. Church Lane 7. Commercial Court 8. Dublin Road 9. Great Victoria Street 10. Laverys Bar Belfast 11. Lisburn Road 12. Queen’s Arcade 13. Queen’s University Belfast 14. Shaftesbury Square 15. St-Anne’s Cathedral 16. The Entries 17. Bridge Street
This project reflects through an auditory and sonic art perspective how the city sounds like without the presence of humans or the normal amount of human density in popular areas in public spaces of Belfast.
Post-experience survey: https://forms.office.com/r/Fp1PwthWS2
Information Creator: Georgios Varoutsos, PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast Website: https://georgiosvaroutsos.com/ Research Project: https://georgiosvaroutsos.com/covid-19/
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The Echoes
2020-03-27-Queen's University Belfast-Lockdown 1-Part 1
Recorded at 4:20pm A Friday afternoon with no students circling around the campus, has left a void i…
2020-08-28-Queens University Belfast-Lockdown 1-Part 2
Recorded at 2:53pm Not much has changed with Queen’s University Belfast, they have opened their fron…
2020-10-15-Queen's University Belfast-Lockdown 2-Part 1
Recorded at 5:34pm Recording in front of the local university, main road which has much of the pedes…
2020-10-16-Queen's University Belfast-Lockdown 2_Part 2
Recorded at 5:39pm Recording in front of the local university, however, space has begun to be quiet…
2020-10-21-Queen's University Belfast-Lockdown 2_Part 3
Recorded at 7:02pm Recording in front of the local university, space is calmer, windy, and less com…
2020-03-27-Botanic Gardens-Lockdown 1-Part 1
Recorded at 7:04pm The gentle and soothing paradise of Belfast seemed unchanged, while there would m…
2020-07-04-Botanic Gardens-Lockdown 1-Part 2
Recorded at 5:09pm My proximity to Botanic Gardens allows me to take multiple walks through the park…
2020-03-27-Belfast City Hall-Lockdown 1-Part 1
Recorded at 5:05pm A starting point for locals and tourists, it points us in different directions to…
2020-07-04-Belfast City Hall-Lockdown 1-Part 2
Recorded at 5:05pm I have been conducting these recordings as an observer however sometimes my kindl…
2020-10-15-Belfast City Hall-Lockdown 2-Part 1
Recorded at 6:10pm Recording of locals and visitors passing at the junction that intertwines city c…
2020-10-21-Belfast City Hall-Lockdown 2-Part 3
Recorded at 7:42pm Recording of pedestrians and little amount of vehicle traffic in the area. This …
2020-10-16-Belfast City Hall-Lockdown2_Part2
Recorded at 6:19pm Recording of more locals and visitors passing at the junction that intertwines c…
and 66 more echoes…
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