Mexico Cityscape

Octavio Paz, grown up in an outlying neighborhood of Mexico City, wrote in one of his poems:
Between what I see and what I say 
Between what I say and what I keep silent 
Between what I keep silent and what I dream 
Between what I dream and what I forget: 
Poetry. 
One can easily replace poetry with sound or noise thinking [...]

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Big Ben and Barrel Organs in the Streets

From my recent trip to Mexico I brought some sound snippets of twisted european heritage: the Torre Latinoamericana, the landmark tower in the city center Mexico DF, plays a cheap digital version of London’s Big Ben every hour. And notorious in the streets of DF and other Mexican cities are the out-of-tune barrel organs that [...]

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