The Roving Musicologist
Found Sound, Outsider, Street Performers, Sound Events, Experimental, Recorded and Posted with a minimum of interference.
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Travel Post #9: Selling Bread on the Streets of Istanbul
It’s not easy to get noticed when you’re selling bread. There are many people in Istanbul rolling around carts full of a bread that is in the shape of a ring. You can hear the calls all over the city, and where I was sleeping was on this guy’s particular route. Towards the end of the track, you can hear another guy with a completely different call coming into the street just as the first merchant was leaving.
Another, Inscrutable, Language
Sometimes it may be better to not understand what is being said. When recording sounds and noises, the actual meaning of the words might get in the way of the plaintive tones of the voice. Maybe this would be the case for a listener that understands Turkish.
I never read the plaques explaining the silent green sarcophagi, because they had some strange effect on me that was outside of their historical context. It wasn’t intentional to avoid the information, but later I linked the them to the tones of the man selling bread.
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