"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.