woods

Rapids to woods, with a car in between

start:
water, rapids
end:
woods, birds

1:45 minutes (1.61 MB)

May 10 07 late afternoon, Ottawa river, outdoors, zero peopliness, rapids, car, birds, fairly dense, starts with steady rush of rapids, ends in woods with birds etc. Less a space-transition, more a density/texture-transition maybe...?

Traffic to woods

start:
highway, cars, traffic
end:
woods, birds

1:47 minutes (1.64 MB)

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

Woods to filtration plant hum

start:
woods, birds
end:
industry hum

1:59 minutes (1.82 MB)

May 10th, late afternoon. Ottawa West Filtration Plant. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. From woods (birds etc) to the medium-to-loud hum outside a water treatment facility. (Technically the same 'space', but different sound worlds...)

Woods, plane passes overhead

start:
woods, birds
end:
same

1:55 minutes (1.76 MB)

May 10th, late afternoon. Mud Lake conservation area, Ottawa. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. In the woods (birds etc); a plane passes overhead, close enough to be quite loud. Does this constitute a transition? I have not moved; my space has not changed. But the shift from natural sound to the sound of the plane is a dramatic shift in cultural space... (Plus the plane has a nice symbolic link with our themes of transitions, different local and geographical spaces, etc...)

Woods to road/traffic

start:
woods, birds
end:
highway, traffic

1:48 minutes (1.65 MB)

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

Lake to woods

start:
lake
end:
woods

1:23 minutes (1.59 MB)

May 10 late afternoon. Mud Lake, Ottawa. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. Medium density. No traffic (well, some quite distant traffic.)
This is an attempt at a transition between two entirely outdoor 'spaces' - an open lake versus within the woods. The spatial shift is a bit subtle, though slightly supported by a shift in the sound sources (less/more birds/frogs/crickets...)

Woods to water

start:
woods, birds, water
end:
water lapping at the shore

1:08 minutes (1.31 MB)

May 10th, late afternoon. Ottawa River. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. medium density. Not the most effective transition in the world - steady sound of rapids in the background throughout (stronger when closer to water); but transition from 'in the woods' (birds etc) to 'by the water' (water lapping at the shore etc) provides some sense of transition...

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