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...

May 12th afternoon. Lincoln Fields Mall, Ottawa. Both outdoors and indoors; much peopliness. High sound density.
Vestibule on the way outside - small space, doors opening and closing, music playing; to outside - cars, carts; wagon rolls by; voices; to parking lot - seagulls, traffic noise, voices.

May 12th afternoon. Lincoln Fields Mall, Ottawa. Both outdoors and indoors; much peopliness. High sound density.
Begins in the parking lot; grocery carts rolling on pavement; car ignition; through sliding doors, into grocery store; carts being pushed together, crowd noise, cash noise; out into the mall - crowd noise, similar to grocery space but without cash, carts; push-doors into vestibule on the way outside - small space, doors opening and closing, music playing.

May 10th late afternoon. Ottawa River Parkway. Outdoors. Quite dense to medium density. medium-busy highway traffic to woods (birds etc.)

May 10th late afternoon. Ottawa River Parkway. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. Woods (birds etc) to medium-busy highway (traffic - buses, cars.)

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, 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).