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An audio postcard of Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy, a blend of timelessness and tourists. Has bed of sound before and after.
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An audio postcard of Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy, a blend of timelessness and tourists. Has bed of sound before and after.
Transcript
SOUND OF PIAZZA
Piazza San Marco
A chilly day in March.
The Basilica Church.
Venezia, Italy.
Waiting for the clock tower bells to chime.
A montage of pigeons, tourists and international languages.
German, French, Italian.
All tourists in Venice taking snapshots and feed pigeons
and being photographed with the feathered rats on their heads, arms and shoulders.
Don?t come to Venice on a Sunday unless you want to be packed wall to stone wall with people in the tiny winding walkways that Venice calls streets.
The piazza or the square is a distant ancestor to any American mall
sans music and garish storefronts.
And on this windy Sunday, as vast as it is,
the piazza doesn?t offer much in the way of personal space.
Voices, thousands of voices.
No cars, just people.
Soaking up history with gelato in hand and camera flashing.
If you look up, you see a clock tower about to chime t...
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Jackson Braider
Posted on October 21, 2003 at 07:41 PM | Permalink
Review of Piazza San Marco
Bells are there to be recorded, and thanks to Dmae, we are getting bells we should have heard on pubrad a long time ago. I would have given a kid a Euro to rattle the pigeons -- it's amazing the noise a thousand flying rats can make. And I would have found space for the moving clock on the west (?) side of the piazza. Still, the bells are beautiful -- worth every moment.