The newspapers announced that on November 1st, exactly 250 years after the big earthquake, all churches of Lisbon would sound their bells at 9.30 AM. I got ready and anticipated the spectacular sonic feast.
On November 1st 1755 Lisbon inhabitants were caught by surprise with a violent earthquake of major proportions. The earthquake and the ensuing tsunami "made the news" in those days. Voltaire and Kant wrote about the phenomenon that destroyed Portugal's capital city. The citizens of Lisbon had just started to leave the churches after the Day of the Dead mass when the earthquake started. After it ended the few churches that survived the massive destruction sounded their bells to signal the tragedy or to signal life...
250 years later the local authorities decided that all Lisbon churches (including the very few from those days that remained intact) would sound their bells on November 1st at exactly 9.30 AM.
The Lisbon churches concert promised to become quite an exciting and enriching sonic experience. My plan was to document it and post the results of my efforts here. I prepared my equipment and studied possible locations to properly record it. During that night however I had a problem in my right ear, became partially deaf and had to miss the event. If only I could rewind time...
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