Visa's Audio

A Transition Collage

Visa — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:10:35 -0700

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

Ventilation - Kamppi square

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:26:01 -0700

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.

Tunnel - Street

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:21:09 -0700

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

Train - Platform

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:17:07 -0700

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

Street - Pharmacy

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:12:49 -0700

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

street - movie theater hall

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:10:06 -0700

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).

slot machines - hall

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:05:04 -0700

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).

Exiting Unicafe

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:00:59 -0700

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.

Restaurant - Kamppi hall

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:56:27 -0700

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).

mounting a tram

Visa — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:52:42 -0700

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).