
Using the sounds we miss to find comfort and community during a pandemic
CNN
I Miss My Bar and The Sound of Colleagues — interactive websites that bring the sounds of the bar and office spaces into your home — were developed in response to the pandemic. Experts weigh in on what we know now about how these affect the brain.
"But that's not really what the bar is about. There's a line that Oscar came up with, when he founded the bar. In Spanish it is 'Maverick, un lugar de encuentros.' That means, Maverick is a place for encounters," said Cárdenas, the bar's marketing partner of the bar. That's how the duo came up with the idea for I Miss My Bar, a free, interactive website launched in June 2020 with the goal of bringing the atmosphere of the bar into the homes of Maverick's locked-down delivery customers. The key to this strategy? Sound.
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