Find the quietest place in New York, an impossible quest? Yet it is the one that the musician Ethan Bourdeau follows, trying to find a place where the noise of the city is not omnipresent. He went to a park in Manhattan where hills block the din of the
city : “I try to capture the tranquility, the wind in the leaves, maybe the squirrel race. »Ethan participates in the project Quiet Parks International, which identifies green spaces preserved from noise pollution.
For this musician, if humans seem to put up with noise, their bodies cannot: “We know that noise plays a role in myocardial infarctions and heart disease. It contributes to the increase of stress, blood pressure, obesity and lowers results and performance in school. »Follow Ethan in his hunt for silence in our partner’s video Brut.
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