Noise in Istanbul

Last week’s story about singing lessons for muezzin (here) was more about below-average reproduction of holy word, or call to prayer (and, then, the word), than it was about noise pollution.

I imagined that these lessons would occur in boot camps, muezzin evacuating the sprawling Eurasian city for a week in the countryside (but which side?) leaving… silence.

Or, leaving The Morning Line: 40 speakers and an ‘interactive ambisonic sound system’ developed at York University form a sonic pavilion from now until September 19th.

Of course a de-muezzin of the Turkish capital is not going to happen, but competition with this new, unknown noise will have an equally distorting effect this summer.  

posted by Ossie Froggatt-Smith.

(Photograph from thewire.co.uk)

Posted 1 year ago

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