Sounding Covid-19 Repository

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused cities to become sparsely populated, significantly changing urban sound environments with different restrictions placed. By capturing audio recordings at various points during lockdowns, we can sonically observe the impact of Covid-19 constraints and how these places have transformed over time. 

The repository holds 91 sound compositions from 27 separate locations, focusing on the effects of Covid-19 during Belfast, Northern Ireland's Lockdowns (1-3 in 2020-2021), Exit Strategies (Summer 2020 and 2021), Lifted Restrictions (2022), and a Lockdown visit to Montreal, Canada, in 2020-2021. 

This project explores the auditory and sonic art perspectives of how cities sound without the presence of humans or the usual level of human density in popular public spaces in Belfast and a few areas in Montreal. It focuses on field recordings, soundwalking experiences, soundscape composition, and sound map contributions.

Folders contain audio and images, categorised as:

1-Sounding Covid-19_Belfast-Northern Ireland

• 1-Lockdown 1 + Exit Strategies-2020
• 2-Lockdown 2-2020
• 3-Lockdown 3 + Exit Strategies-2021
• 4-Lifted Restrictions-2022

2-Sounding Covid-19_Montreal-Canada