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Geoff Gersh - Deserted Times Square (USA)

from #StayHomeSounds (volume 1) by Cities and Memory

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Times Square, New York, recorded during March 2020 by Geoff Gersh.

"Times Square, NYC is usually bustling with activity, day and night. Tourists, street performers, food vendors, the homeless, taxis, delivery trucks, etc etc all make up the cacophonous chorus that the makes Times Square what it is.

"Since the Covid-19 lockdown, that has all changed. Times Square has become a ghost town and on Monday March 23rd at 1am, I went to document the sound of Times Square at the moment. Absent are the people, the traffic, the energy. Mechanical sounds from the nearby buildings now dominate the soundscape.

"Aside from law enforcement stationed every few blocks, not many people were in Times Square, at most maybe 10 at one point.

"The community copes in different ways. Most people are taking this seriously and staying indoors and some go about their lives with little change or adjustment that's within their control.

"NYC has over 25,000 cases of the virus at the moment and that number will rise. My message to the the global community... stay safe and stay home."

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from #StayHomeSounds (volume 1), released May 1, 2020

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Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
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