LOS GRITOS DE MEXICO (The Cries of Mexico) is a soundscape about Mexico City (realized, recorded and mixed by Félix Blume)
more info can be found about the project on http://www.felixblume.com/los-gritos-de-mexico/
Mexico City: more than 20 millions people gathered making noise!
A noisy city for most; I would like to transform it in a sonorous city.
The street sellers make the voices of the polyphonic choir, the small bell from the ice cream seller substitutes the triangle from the orchestra, and the hammering of the protesters on the metallic wall are the percussions.
In Mexico City, people shout to be heard, they shout their rage against the cops, they shout at the ‘lucha libre’ fights, they shout together ¡ Viva Mexico ! to feel united, and during a demonstration they also shout ¡Viva Mexico ! People shout in church, they pray together or alone, whispering in the silent night.
The thunder booms: nobody can shout at the storm, and the rain cleans the silent city. A solo voice after the rain, and the choir resumes gradually.
People sing to forget and the shouting starts again, louder, so that the others don´t forget.
The water flows under the city, the forgotten lake is mourning; it remembers when the city was an Island… On the top, it is too noisy, underneath, the water keeps in silence the secrets of the past.
Same sound on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/felixblume/losgritosdemexico
More sounds on http://www.felixblume.com/
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Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
29:11.880
File size
483.7 MB
Sample rate
48000.0 Hz
Bit depth
24 bit
Channels
Stereo
Comments
1 year, 1 month ago
Un excelente trabajo, si retrata mucho del panorama mexicano, que nos gusta gritar.
5 years, 1 month ago
love the content and the quality
5 years, 2 months ago
Hace mucho que buscaba algo así. Que sensibilidad y dedicación a este trabajo. Es de verdad especial. WOW!!
Una brisa de aire fresco en el desierto mano! :D
5 years, 11 months ago
Tiene de tooodo muchas gracias!!!!!!!!!
6 years, 1 month ago
This is just superb! Really really impressive capture of Mexico. Felix, how would you like to be cited if I used this in a short amateur non-profit personal film? Thank you for creating such greatness!
