birds

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, 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...

bus - home

start:
bus interior
end:
bus driving away

1:59 minutes (1.82 MB)

This is a record of the sound of the bus which takes me from the city center to my home in Helsinki. It is possible to hear the following sounds: deceleration of the bus, doors of the bus, acceleration, voices of the people (few), motor of the bus, steps, traffic, birds, close of the doors of the bus, bus going away.

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.

Montreal Biodome: From St Lawrence Marine Ecosystem hall to small tunnel-like space, and back.

start:
open hall - water, some birds, prominent ventilation/lighting hum
end:
same

1:00 minutes (1.15 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, and back.
From an open Marine Ecosystem hall - water, some birds, prominent ventilation/lighting hum - to a smaller, tunnel-like space - water etc from previous space in distance, and back again. Voices throughout.

Montreal Biodome: From small exhibition hall to St Lawrence Marine Ecosystem hall.

start:
smaller space with music etc, sliding doors
end:
water, voices

1:22 minutes (1.58 MB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; high-ish sound density. From an indoor space to an indoor space emulating an outdoor space.
From a smaller space with music etc, sliding doors, then large, open Marine ecosystem hall; prominent ventilation/lighting hum; birds; distant water; footsteps; water comes closer, recedes; different water closer, recedes. Voices throughout.

Montreal Biodome: Laurentian Forest Ecosystem Hall...

start:
water, bird, voices
end:
water, smaller space

0:40 minutes (788.82 KB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; high sound density. Indoor space emulating an outdoor space. In the Laurention Forest Ecosystem Hall: space shift defined primarily by changes in sound of falling water - changing sources, changing distances, and a shift to a smaller space at the end. Bird near the beginning; voices in various languages.

Montreal Biodome: Tropical forest ecosystem hall to smaller space with music, plus brief return.

start:
water, birds, voices, large space
end:
same

0:28 minutes (541.88 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.
From the open tropical forest 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. Brief return to former sapce.

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