Soundscape map of AL-Alfie Street- downtown Cairo
Recordings of background atmospheres of AL-Alfie Street. Some form part of the tales of public people, each referred to as a circle center on the map below.
Above: graphic based on a daytime satellite image provided by google Earth. This digital map is designed to give you a virtual tour in Al-Alfie Street and the fabric of its historic buildings.
Many recordings on the sound map are simply of curious or distinctive sounds heard in Alfie Street. The contents of those recordings are summarized in the graphic below :
The key shows the most common sound categories encountered. The louder a particular sound type encountered at the center of a circle, the darker its icon. Or that sound takes up more of the recording`s length.
Despite the rapprochement spacing of the recording points and the brief duration of the sound files, they seem to do a reasonable job of plotting in outlining the common or persistent sound types heard in Al-Alfie Street during the day.
Tales of AL-Alfie Street
Orabi Square (Tawfiqiyah Square), front of Alfie Street
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 10:15am
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, traffic, radio, the Quran, footsteps, the movement of restaurant and café workers, friends laugh, and the whistling of some people.
Orabi Square (Tawfiqiyah Square), front of Alfie Street
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 10:25am
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, traffic, radio, the Quran, footsteps, the movement of restaurant and café workers, friends laugh, and the whistling of some people.
Orabi Square (Tawfiqiyah Square), front of Alfie Street
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 10:35am
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, traffic, radio, the Quran, footsteps, the movement of restaurant and café workers, friends laugh, and the whistling of some people.
In front of Shahrazad Cabaret, Alfie Street
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 10:40am
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, traffic, footsteps, the movement of restaurant and café workers and moving furniture, tables and sounds of songs.
In front of Shahrazad Cabaret, Alfie Street
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 10:45am
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, traffic, footsteps, the movement of restaurant and café workers and moving furniture, tables and sounds of songs.
In front of the New Arizona theatre, Alfie Street.
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 11:00am
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, footsteps, radio, the Quran, and traffic from nearby streets
In front of the New Arizona theatre, Alfie Street.
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 10:50am
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, footsteps, and traffic from nearby streets.
Inside the Alfie Restaurant, the oldest restaurant on this street, it was founded in 1938.
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 9:00pm
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, footsteps, rattling dishes, movement of restaurant workers, music, songs, and sound of the restaurant's sliding door.
Inside the Alfie Restaurant, the oldest restaurant on this street, it was founded in 1938
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 9:05pm
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, footsteps, rattling dishes, movement of restaurant workers, music, songs, and sound of the restaurant's sliding door.
Inside the Alfie Restaurant, the oldest restaurant on this street, it was founded in 1938
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 9:10pm
Additional notes: There are voices in the background of people's chatter, footsteps, rattling dishes, movement of restaurant workers, music, songs, and sound of the restaurant's sliding door.
In front of Diana Palace Cinema, Alfie Street.
Recording date: : 4 November 2023
Time of day: 2:30pm
Additional notes: One of the sellers of Diana Market, there are voices in the background of people's chatter, selling and buying, footsteps, and traffic
In front of Diana Palace Cinema, Alfie Street..
Recording date: : 4 November 2023
Time of day: 12:00Pm
Additional notes: One of the sellers of Diana Market, there are voices in the background of people's chatter, selling and buying, footsteps, and traffic
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In front of IMPA,Alfie Street.
Recording date: 18 October 2023
Time of day: 12:20pm
Additional notes: traffic, people's chatter, and fresh air.
In front of IMPA,Alfie Street.
Recording date: 19 October 2023
Time of day: 5:20pm
Additional notes: Traffic, people's chatter, footsteps.
In front of IMPA,Alfie Street.
Recording date: 4 November 2023
Time of day: 3:00pm
Description Buy and sell in Diana, people's chatter, footsteps, Licorice seller’s cymbals
Additional notes: Each Saturday, Diana Market which relative to Diana Cinema has achieved a greet popularity over the past years for more than five years and has become the destination for hundreds of buyers of ancient antiques and those have a nostalgic desire. Diana has three different sections, the first one is for books, the second one is for antiques, the third one is for stamps and coins.
In front of IMPA,Alfie Street.
Recording date: 4 November 2023
Time of day: 6:00pm
Additional notes: : A street artist plays flute while walking around Diana Market.
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