Mexico: San Miguel de Allende

This week I take you with me to another place in Mexico. Drive a few hours from Mexico City to the northwest and you will arrive in San Miguel de Allende, a beautiful and colorful little city. It's sunday, I walk over the square in the heart of the city and it's very crowded. Lots of Mexican tourists seem to spend their weekend here. People are selling icecream and al kinds of other things.

Suddenly the band begins to play in the middle of the square. Their lively sound fills the square, people gather around and couples start to dance to the music. Do they play out of tune? No one seems to notice or no one seems to care. Hey, it's sunday, the sun shines, we have music! I wish I made a longer recording of that magic moment.

Comments

[Kieron]

Hi Hugo,

Have you looked at AudioBoo ? Sorry if you're familiar, but this type of recording (very evocative by the way) looks perfect.

Kieron

[admin]

Hi Kieron,

I didn't know AudioBoo, very interesting. I would love to be able to listen to a lot of different places around the world this way. I've been thinking of a good way of doing this, and a tool like AudioBoo is coming close.

The things I listened to mainly consist of spoken words though, and it's hard to make great recordings with the iPhone's built in microphone. Thanks for letting me know!