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ABOUT:

"In the past a laundry room (inside or outside the house) was a place where to wash clothes by hand over a flat stone. (...) Until the popularisation of washing machines in houses it was common to find in towns and cities public constructions where women went to clean their clothes. Those spaces were meeting points where to exchange information and talk about common live."

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Safareig is a sound archive that aims to gather sounds from laundry rooms, mangers and fountains around the territory. The Sound on public laundry rooms in rural areas is an important soundmark and also fountains an different hydraulic constructions leave in the territory an evident footprint over the soundscape of a place.

Finally this archive doesn’t aims to be an analytical repository nor a ethnographic approach to the sound of laundry rooms and hydraulic constructions. It just aims to be a library of sonorities, echoes and reverberations of water over ancient rural architecture.

 

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REPOSITORY ARCHIVE:

Llosa De Ranes, València
saf039 - Font del Xàrcol
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)
saf038 - Font del Racó
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)
saf037 - Font del Racó (Hidrofonía)
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)
saf036 - Font de la Plaça de L'Esglèsia
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)
saf035 - Font del Calvari
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)
saf034 - Font del Botó
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)
saf033 - Font de la Plaça Major
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)
saf032 - Font de la Glorieta
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)
saf031 - Font de la Foia
Llosa De Ranes, València (ES)

 

Vall de Laguar, Alacant:

saf030 - Font (Fleix)
Vall de Laguar, Alacant (ES)
saf029 - Font del Camussot (Benimaurrell - Fleix)
Vall de Laguar, Alacant (ES)
saf028 - Font i Llavador (Campell)
Vall de Laguar, Alacant (ES)
saf027 - Font Grossa (Fleix)
Vall de Laguar, Alacant (ES)
saf026 - Font del Gel (Campell)
Vall de Laguar, Alacant (ES)
saf025 - Llavador (Benimaurrell)
Vall de Laguar, Alacant (ES)

 

The Way Of Saint James (Roncesvalles - Logroño):

saf024 - Fuente y Patio del Albergue de Peregrinos, Logroño
La Rioja, Spain
saf023 - Fuente Plaza de San Martín, Estella/Lizarra
Navarra, Spain
saf022 - Abrevadero y Fuente en Lorca
Navarra, Spain
saf021 - Trinidad de Arre / Puente Río Ulzama
Navarra, Spain
saf020 - Fuente en Roncesvalles / Orreaga
Navarra, Spain
saf019 - Abrevadero en Lintzoain / Valle de Erro
Navarra, Spain
saf018 - Lavadero en Mezkiritz / Valle de Erro
Navarra, Spain

 

Chelva, Valencia:

saf017 - Fuente de la Plaza Mayor / Chelva
Valencia, Spain
saf016 - Fuente de la Plaza del Arrabal / Chelva
Valencia, Spain
saf015 - Lavadero en la Calle Moreras / Chelva (Hidrofonía)
Valencia, Spain
saf014 - Lavadero en la Calle Moreras / Chelva
Valencia, Spain
saf013 - Lavadero del Arrabal / Chelva
Valencia, Spain
saf012 - Fuente en la Calle Pereira / Chelva
Valencia, Spain

 

Otros:

saf011 - Fuente en el Parque de Viveros / Valencia
Valencia, Spain
saf010 - Lavadero de Alcalà de la Jovada
Alicante, Spain
saf009 - Casa de L'Ardiaca / Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
saf008 - Fuente Fría / Chóvar
Castellón, Spain
saf007 - Fuente en Gorropu / Dorgali
Sardegna, Italy
saf006 - Font del Marionet / Serra
Valencia / Spain
saf005 - Abrevadero en Lagueiro / Ibias
Astúries, Spain
saf004 - Les Sis Fonts / Santes Creus
Tarragona, Spain
saf003 - Lavadero de Aiguamúrcia / Santes Creus
Tarragona, Spain
saf002 - Lavadero de San Antolín de Ibias / Ibias
Astúries, Spain
saf001 - Lavadero de Montferri
Tarragona, Spain
     
   

 

The whole documentation of this archive is alocated and hosted at Bandcamp's platform. This work is licenced under a Creative Commons licence 3.0 share-alike.

All material recorded and edited by Edu Comelles.

Project launched on december 2011.