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Helsinki-Ottawa metro-plane transition

start:
voices, metro station, metro arriving
end:
plane receding into the distance, birds

1:37 minutes (1.86 MB)

A transition between a subway train arriving to Kamppi station in Helsinki and a plane passing overhead while in the woods in Ottawa.

Helsinki-Ottawa transition

start:
street, blacksmith
end:
sewer, rushing water

1:50 minutes (2.11 MB)

A transition between the Helsinki blacksmith-fountain clip and the Ottawa road-sewer clip.

Helsinki/Ottawa, road/mall/street/sewer

start:
street, music, clapping
end:
sewer, rushing water

4:43 minutes (5.4 MB)

A shift-sequence between Helsinki and Ottawa, moving from the breakbeat-Stockman clip, through the two Lincoln Fields mall clips, to the road/sewer clip. The opening clapping links texturally to the closing water sound; the rhythm of the footsteps closing the Helsinki clip links to the rhythm of the beeping starting the Ottawa clip; plus links between very differenct musics and voices in very different languages...

Montreal Biodome: Exhibition hall to cinema

start:
main exhibition hall - voices, multiple languages, and the prominent sounds of people using the exhibits
end:
the sound of a group of Thai men from the film

0:52 minutes (1 MB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; high-ish sound density. Indoors.
From the main exhibition hall - voices, multiple languages, and the prominent sounds of people using the exhibits - to a small cinema, with the music and narrative of the film dominant. Closes with the sound of a group of Thai men from the film - maybe another (brief) example of one space intruding on another?

Montreal Biodome: Public viewing area, with the sound from the Antarctic Ecosystem played over loudspeakers.


1:08 minutes (1.3 MB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. high-ish peopliness; medium sound density. From an indoor space, with an adjacent indoor space emulating an outdoor space being broadcast into the space being recorded. A different kind of shift: this recording is all done in one space, without movement: the public viewing area for the Biodome's antarctic ecosystem, while an area behind glass, packed with penguins, is mic'd and being fed into the public area over two overhead loudspeakers. So this is an interior space, emulating an outdoor space, intruding on another interior space.

Montreal Biodome: From public area to Arctic ecosystem hall.(?)

start:
water&ventilation distant
end:
water&ventilatio closer, voices

0:23 minutes (452.59 KB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; high-ish sound density. Not entirely certain of the exact location here, but it is somewhere around the Arctic ecosystem hall.

Montreal Biodome: From small public area to large exhibition hall.

start:
small public area - ventilation, lighting hum, close, prominent voices
end:
large exhibition hall - shift in ventilation/hum, voices, plus sounds of people using an exhibit which includes recorded frog calls

0:38 minutes (746.47 KB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; medium sound density. Indoors.
From a small public area - ventilation, lighting hum, close, prominent voices - to a large exhibition hall - shift in ventilation/hum, voices, plus sounds of people using an exhibit which includes recorded frog calls.

Montreal Biodome: From Arctic ecosystem hall to large corridor area.

start:
larger space with loud ventilation/lighting hum, birds (gulls)
end:
smaller space, different hum etc, birds quieter

0:37 minutes (732.19 KB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; high-ish sound density. From an indoor space emulating an outdoor space, to an indoor space (with previous space in the distance).
From the open Arctic ecosystem hall to a wide corridor space. Voices throughout, more prominent in the latter. Starts in larger space with loud ventilation/lighting hum, birds (gulls), recede to distance, shift in ventilation/hum in smaller space.

Montreal Biodome: From smaller indoor space to larger Arctic ecosystem hall.

start:
large corridor area, voices
end:
hall, loud ventilation/lighting hum, bird sounds, water sounds, voices

1:13 minutes (1.39 MB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; high-ish sound density. From an indoor space to a larger indoor space emulating an outdoor space.
From large corridor area, voices prominent, to the Arctic ecosystem hall, with loud ventilation/lighting hum, some bird sounds (gulls etc), some water sounds. Voices throughout.

Montreal Biodome: From St Lawrence Marine Ecosystem hall to smaller space with music.

start:
larger space with water and birds, multiple voices in various languages
end:
smaller space with music dominant

1:07 minutes (1.28 MB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; high-ish sound density. From an indoor space emulating an outdoor space, to an indoor space with music.
From a Marine ecosystem hall to a smaller space with music. Voices throughout. Starts in larger space with water and birds, multiple voices in various languages, to smaller space with music dominant.

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