Hanoi’s history through recordings
Recordings of Hanoi’s bygone days alive with train bells, ancient songs and Ca Tru (ceremonial singing) will be played back for the first time at an event called Hanoi Soundwalk on April 13.
Participants will join the walk from the Hanoi Cathedral to the old streets of Hang Gai, Hang Vai, and Bat Dan for 60-90 minutes. With the aid of their smart phones and headphones they can choose and discover some parts of the city with the sounds changing from one place to the next.
They will enjoy hearing the sounds of people talking in the streets, a radio broadcast evoking a bygone era, a creaking rickshaw, a train passing or the performance of long-forgotten music.
The event is part of the ongoing 2013 Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival, and Locative Audio project taking place in 11 cities around the world including Virginia (US), Avignon (France) and Oxford (UK).
Tri Minh, founder and coordinator of the festival, said that all recordings and images of the walk will be sent to Barcelona, Spain, the centre of the Locative Audio project.
The sounds once familiar to Hanoians are expected to receive much attention from young people in the process of preserving cultural values, Minh added.