<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"></font><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Hello,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Hope you're
all safe and healthy wherever you are! We're a <a href="https://www.pandemicsilence.org/about">designer and a journalist based in Germany</a> and wanted to let you know that we've launched <a href="https://www.pandemicsilence.org/">The Pandemic Silence Project</a>, a global call to capture the quieting-down
(or change) of the world's soundscapes during the #COVID19 pandemic. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Two media
outlets are already partnering with us, <a href="https://www.riffreporter.de/anthropozaen/corona-pandemie-still-pandemic-silence/">RiffReporter</a> and <a href="https://southeastasiaglobe.com/">Southeast Asia Globe</a>,
to develop a multimedia project from the contributions. </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt">One theme of
the final publication will likely be noise pollution, i.e. how the current lack
of noise shows how noisy we usually are; another how people feel about these
changes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">So please spread the word and contribute your sound recordings! It's all anonymous, and we just need </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">a <b>recording with least a minute of
uninterrupted</b> <b>sound</b> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">a <b>picture</b> of the place (or both sound &
picture as a brief <b>video</b>) </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">location</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> & <b>date</b> & <b>time</b> of the
recording </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">a
few <b>comments</b> (on what we can hear,
what's unusual about the lockdown situation and how you feel about the<br>sounds).
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">That's it! The
submission form is here: <a href="https://bit.ly/2Xq8TYX">https://bit.ly/2Xq8TYX</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">As for <b>what to record</b>, even just sounds from
your window are OK in case you can't get out (and if you do get out, please do
so safely!). Other than that, the usual <b>quality
criteria</b> apply: ideally stereo, the less compressed the better etc., but
don't overthink it! We believe the more people participate the better, and the comments explaining the soundscapes and how people feel about them will also be an
important part here.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Looking forward
to your sounds! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Cheers, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Verónica &
Andreas</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">The Pandemic
Silence Project</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">W:
<a href="http://pandemicsilence.org">pandemicsilence.org</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">T:
@pandemicsilence</span></p></div><div><br></div>--- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999">Andreas von Bubnoff, PhD<br></font><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Professor Science Communication Rhine-Waal University</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Multimedia Producer | Science <span>Journalist</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999">Brooklyn, NY & Kleve, Germany<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999"><span>2019</span> <a href="https://www.h-its.org/de/2019/09/04/andreas-von-bubnoff-jir-2019/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span><span>HITS</span></span> <span>Journalist</span> in <span>Residence</span></a>, Heidelberg, Germany </font></div><div><font color="#999999">Team member <a href="https://www.riffreporter.de/anthropozaen/mission/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">AnthropoScene</a> section of RiffReporter, Berlin, Germany</font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999"><a href="http://andreasvonbubnoff.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">andreasvonbubnoff.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>