Sounds and the city: aural heritage vs. noise pollution  Posting
in Cities  MEXICO CITY -- A new exhibit aims to preserve the
unique sounds of the city's neighborhoods, even as the
government dedicates a new force to policing noise pollution.
MEXICO CITY – This chaotic capital rarely whispers.  Mexico City
howls, roars, whistles, wails, shouts and sings. These noises
and infinite others –- nuisances to many -– make the metropolis
sound like nowhere else.  How Mexico City sounds is part of the
country's cultural patrimony, according to the Fonoteca
Nacional, the National Sound Archive, whose latest exposition
features "aural landscapes" of the capital's neighborhoods. The
exhibit coincides with a new effort to enforce a law limiting
noise in the city –– the government's latest attempt to make the
historic center more livable and increasingly attractive to
higher dollar shoppers.  "Sound goes unperceived, since people
are more visual," said Daniel Goldaracena, who collected dozens
of recordings and curated a s