Flavours

"I tuned into the soundmarks of place, the culturally significant sounds that if heard elsewhere might trigger memories of Obispo Market Havana for those who know it. Drawn to the rhythm of a shaker entering the conversation I wonder if it’s adding flavour to street food being sampled by the passers by. 

"While I can’t taste the delights myself I sample this part of the field recording instead and looped it, which also unexpectedly caught a ‘na na na na’ from the background noise. I found myself singing these vocables and imagining street artists performing in a place I have never been, the atmospheric hustle and bustle between the locals and the visitors. Other snippets of voices are heard in passing, I grabbed these and tried to create conversations between people and place, echoing between past and present, a journey between the Old World and the New World."

Obispo market, Havana reimagined by Aileen Ogilvie .

IMAGE: Paul Mannix, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights.

Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage