I hunted for this sound for 2 days in CDMX. Where? what? who? but most of all why?
It was all very delicious and satisfying in the end, like finding the pot at the end of the rainbow.
The experience of standing next to a personal steam engine, on a street at night, in Mexico, being served platano covered with condensed milk and cinnamon is one of the reasons why I enjoy travel.
I've been wanting to do a project like this for a long time, there are lots of places I have travelled and lived that have unique sounds that I'd like to share.
The only reason I haven't done it is that today's social media wouldn't provide a means for my work to be seen. On Facebook for example if I post anything with external links it covertly censors my content so that even my own friends cannot see it. Nowadays they downrank pretty much anything that isn't a "Reel", my still photographs are now only shown to a very small subset of my friends. Sound-only content isn't really attractive to news sites either so I just don't know how I'd publish it effectively.
The ephemeral “stories” can get a lot of interaction, thats the primary way my circle uses instagram, the “posts” feature are pretty much dead, baring a once a year “photo dump”
For a creative that gets validation from simply having things seen, consider buying a more popular account on instagram and rebranding it. Theyve already done the work of growing the account with real users. You don't need to participate in that popularity rat race, just buy your own art gallery but with the mailing list of the prior owner.
A glaring omission in my opinion is the camote (sweet potato) steam whistle, which has a PTSD-worthy volume even when heard from half a block away.