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Tools Of Rescue: A Review Of Silencio Para Rescatar: Documental Sonoro, Sonia Robles
Tools Of Rescue: A Review Of Silencio Para Rescatar: Documental Sonoro, Sonia Robles
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In this audio documentary, Mexican cultural promoter and sound artist Abraham Chavelas recounts rescue activities in which he took part after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico on 19 September 2017. Answering a call for help, Chavelas was assigned to a collapsed factory where an unknown number of undocumented Asian and Central American women working as seamstresses were trapped under the rubble. For two days, he aided rescue efforts by using a high-tech microphone to help determine whether or not there was life under piles of concrete, glass and debris. Chavelas used the audio he gathered before the Mexican Marines …