Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 2 pm. Recording of ascending from the underground tunnels to the Railwaystation hall in central Helsinki. The central idea is the broadening of space - the noise made by the surrounding people drown into huge reverberation during the transition. Most of the sounds are made by footsteps, people talking, the rustling of clothes, ventilation and such.

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, noon. A recording from the Esplanadi boulevard in Helsinki during the Eurovision final day, so there are a lot of tourist attractions. The recording starts from a blacksmiths stall (people talking, traffic, sound of hammer hitting metal) proceeds past a fountain (water, wind hum, people, faint music in background) and gets closer to the Esplanadi stage where a folk song just ends, ending with applause.

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, noon. A transition from the street to inside a department store. The recording starts with applause as there is a breakdance performance going on the street (music, handclapping, people talking, cars faintly in background). Music gets quieter as I get further away from the dancers and the ambience changes when I enter the department store (no music, lot of people, clothes rustling, footsteps etc).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. A transition from outside Kamppi shopping center (bus engine noise, distant traffic, footsteps, people) to inside it (escalator -> footsteps, weird rhytmic and pitched sound, restaurants close by).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. A recording starting in a metro tunnel on a platform where a metro is just arriving (people talking, footsteps, sound of a metro arriving, pneumatic sound of doors opening), entering a metro (moving into a smaller space), a short metro ride (bizarre chatter, metro moving) and exiting metro (doors opening, broadening of ambience).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. Leaving the Kamppi shopping center from a secluded door. People talking, footsteps on stone, dishes etc in a hall -> escalator -> hall reverberation disappears, cars, footsteps on gravel, a small construction site, skateboarders.

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 3 pm. A transition from the big hall of the Pasila trainstation (footsteps on stone, people talking) and exiting it through the main doors (sliding doors) and standing a while on the parking lot (seaqulls, people talking, traffic, car engine noise etc)

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 4 pm. Walking out of the main post office in Helsinki centrum. Starting with talking people, footsteps, clothes rustling etc drowned in hall ambience, proceeding through some loud doors, entering street (traffic, car engine noise, lots of people etc).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. A transition from the counter of a grocery store (money handling, paperbags, beeps, conveyor) to the hall of the Kamppi shopping center (footsteps, people talking, hall ambience), passing by a cafe on the way (dishes).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 4 pm. A transition from the tramstop (helicopter above, traffic, people, tram approaching) to the tram (sound density decreasing, sense of a small space, people rustling).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. A transition from a restaurant inside the Kamppi shopping center (dishes, clings, chatter, quiet music, baby) to the Kamppi hall (hall ambience, high peopliness, footsteps).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 4 pm. Exiting a Unicafe student cafeteria. Ventilation, chatter, dishes -> approaching the dish return: loud ventilation, loud dishes -> exiting to street: distant traffic, chatter, footsteps.

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 3 pm. A transition from a room with casino slot machines (coins dropping, slot machine jingles, ventilation) to the Pasila trainstation hall (footsteps, people, hall ambience, quiet low rumble).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 2 pm. A transition from the street (busses, traffic) to the hall of a movie theater (sports commentary from a nearby bar, people drowned in hall ambience etc).

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 4 pm. A transition from a busy street (trams, traffic, people) to a quiet pharmacy.

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 4 pm. Moving between wagons in a train, exiting the train to the Pasila trainstation, mounting an escalator.

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 3 pm. A transition from a reverberant corridor (footsteps, chatter etc) to the street.

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. Starting next to a loud ventilation duct, moving across the Kamppi square and entering a Nokia booth.

A sequence of a bunch of transitions, moving between Helsinki, Sydney and Montreal. http://shift.hybridradio.org/files/sequence_map.JPG gives a good idea of how the sequence progresses. Remixed by Visa with materials by James, Eva, Sophea & Visa