I try to listen
the quiet and small voice that I carry inside
But I can't hear her
because of the noise
from: "Little Audrey´s Story", by Eliza Ward

The sonic space of big cities – and Rosario among them – reveals the pace of life we lead today: hyperactivity, stress and lack of time to connect with emotions and affections. Rosario presents a soundscape invaded by vehicles and machines, while the songs of birds, human voices and other living sounds struggle to be heard.

Faced with the noise pollution and the accelerated pace in which we live, I ask myself: what are we trying to silence, what can't or don't want to hear?
In the context of Covid19, the soundscape of the cities changed abruptly. Sounds that seemed impossible to silence, they fell silent. An unknown silence appeared that allowed another listening and the opportunity to look inside ourselves. The public and common urban space, the social intertwining of encounter, and its sound representation changed significantly at this time. The streets were silenced, the predominant sounds decreased and other sounds could be revealed, increased and intertined.

This work seeks to challenge us about the sound space that surrounds us, and the opportunity of a new listening. How have we soundly built our urban environment? How can we listen again and rethink our sound context? This new silence that opened space in the context of the pandemic, what internal and external sounds allows us to perceive and attend? What seemed fixed and immovable, could be transformed and on a global scale. What deep needs do these changes reveal to us and ask to be heard?