• Soundscape
  • Recording
    • What sound to record?
    • Recording strategies
    • The toolls: technical media
  • Using sound scape
    • Soundscape composition
      • What is soundscape composition
    • Sound/photo composition
    • Sound/video composition
    • Soundwalking
    • Performance
  • Ethiopia
    • Why Ethiopia
      • Ethiopia acoustic identity
    • The markets
      • Rural markets
      • Urban markets: Addis Ababa
      • Differences
    • Addis Ababa
      • Addis Ababa acustic identity
    • Sound in transit
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  • Soundscape
  • Recording
    • What sound to record?
    • Recording strategies
    • The toolls: technical media
  • Using sound scape
    • Soundscape composition
      • What is soundscape composition
    • Sound/photo composition
    • Sound/video composition
    • Soundwalking
    • Performance
  • Ethiopia
    • Why Ethiopia
      • Ethiopia acoustic identity
    • The markets
      • Rural markets
      • Urban markets: Addis Ababa
      • Differences
    • Addis Ababa
      • Addis Ababa acustic identity
    • Sound in transit

Rural markets

The markets are held once or twice a week. Often on Saturdays or Mondays.

Rural markets are mainly outdoors, on unpaved yards and the goods are displayed over fabrics or plastic sheets, but there are also sellers with tables covered by a roof, basically a kind of wooden stall. Other sellers have an actual brick wall shop leaning against the buildings that surround the market.

Lastly, there are areas that are paved with concrete and covered with large metal and wooden roofs that give shelter to several sellers.

The acoustics are essentially of 3 types:

1) Completely open air, on dirt yards and roads.

2) Outdoors but covered by metal or plastic sheets or by organic materials such as interwoven bamboo.

3) Areas protected by large corrugated metal roofs.

The rural markets are arranged in sectors, goods are grouped into specific areas: there’s the vegetables section, the live animalsarea, the butchery area, furniture area, iron area, various plastic objects section, clothing etc.

The sellers come from several nearby villages and the countryside. The flow itself of the sellers arriving to the market creates an interesting and important transiting soundscape which will be covered in another section of this research.

The sounds heard in the rural markets are mainly the following:

live animals for sale: chickens, goats.

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ELQE

Eres lo que escuchas
a project by Alessandro Olla

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Future developments

A future project will involve creating an interactive multimedia installation. I will keep writing travel diaries of my next artistic residencies adding photographs, notes, impressions and ideas with an accompanying audio CD.

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