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

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. While there are also water sounds in the penguin-zone, these don't register particularly in the recording, and it is only the cries of the penguins which activate their space enough for it to intrude onto the primary recorded space. So: ventilation/lighting hum; multiple voices in multiple languages; penguin cries in a different space.

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