The text analyzes how this landscape is evoked by former workers and residents, starting from sound signals such as the factory whistle and others that refer to the factory universe.
The results of the article point to a sound inventory, to the diversity of emotions and perceptions involved, and highlight the role that sounds play in memorial and identity construction. There are numerous senses given to this sound sign that accompanied the ordinary rhythm of life, the daily and work rhythm.
These senses are the ones that, recovered by the memory of the city of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul RS state, in Brazil, in the period between and , we intent to discuss in this article, considering two empirical processes and its historical processes.
Therefore, in the first part, we seek to place both textile factories studied in the context of a city that already stands out, in the 19 th century, for an economy that has port activity as one of the main boosters to industrial development.
These origins were observed in the urban scenario through the architectural styles used in the construction of the factory buildings and the spaces associated with them, as well as in the introduction of social forms that have been consolidated inside and out of the labor universe.
