South Asia PhoNographic Mornings #19/20
Each Morning of the World #07
Islamabad ~ Blue Area ~ sector F-6 ~ Pakistan
« The soundwall of God»
Pedro MONTESINOS
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Every morning, before the sun starts to shine, the voices of the call to pray from the different mosques of the territory invade the soundscape all over the city. The voices of different muezzins amplified not always with good equipment and scattered by not always good speakers, mix all together in the air. Closer calls, from closer minarets, approach the presence of the voices and draws the perspective for listening: some voices come from the long-distance while others are in the nearby, some of them arrive from the right side, some from left side; creating a many layers wall that no other sound breaks at this time of the morning.

No way to escape and no way to hide: that soundscape gives no opportunity to stay out of that call even if you do not practice the pray, even if you do not believe in their God, even if you believe in no god. The voices say without saying: you should believe in God because is all over, everywhere and every time. But I’m just listening to the soundscape...

When the closer voices finish, the calls of the crows recover their dominance in the soundscape and the city starts to move.

For me is time to go back to bed.


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Pedro MONTESINOS
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Musician, Journalist and sound technician, my approach to environmental sounds starts in 2004 when I firstly read Murray Schafer’s “The Soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the World”. Since that moment I’ve been starting a personal path to investigate, record, experiment, live, analyze and enjoy the sounds that surround us all the time. I focus on the social and communication aspects of the soundscapes, the positive and the negative practices and sounds and their roles in the Acoustic Community. So I try to deal with that perspective when I listen, record or play sounds I collect from my hometown, Sagunto, from the city I actually live, Barcelona, and from the different places I visit.

Publications: Audiotalaia (VV.AA.), La Escucha Atenta (LEA12)

I collaborate in a digital Magazine (AltaïrMagazine) with articles related to sound discoveries and experiences lived and recorded in my travels as a way to extend the interest in listening, recording, writing and reading about environmental sounds and soundscape.

And I’m part of several groups that develop different activities, workshops and practices of listening and recording sounds in both natural and urban environments in Sagunto, Barcelona, El Hierro.


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