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street-shopping center

start:
street
end:
store

1:56 minutes (1.77 MB)

It's a record of the sounds you can hear at the time of going from the street Aleksanderkatu to the shopping center Stockman (sounds: voices, motors, steps, doors of the bus, rack, bags, voices in an indoor space).

street - rautatiesasema

start:
street
end:
station hall

2:00 minutes (1.83 MB)

This file shows the sounds registered in the way of going from the street to the inside of the rautatieasema (sound signals of passages for pedestrians, gulls, cars, voices, doors, people, steps).

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 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 to small exhibition hall, including background film/music

start:
larger space with water and ventilation, multiple voices in various languages in background
end:
smaller space with music dominant

0:42 minutes (820.96 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 Laurention Forest ecosystem hall to a smaller exhibition space with the music and narration from a film in an adjacent auditorium quite prominent. Voices throughout. Starts in larger space with water and ventilation, multiple voices in various languages in background throughout, to smaller space with music dominant. Sounds of automatic sliding doors throughout.

Montreal Biodome: Exhibition hall to tropical forest ecosystem

start:
hall, ventilation, voices
end:
ventilation, lighting hum water, birds, voices

0:49 minutes (959.23 KB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Starts indoors; ends in an indoor space simulating an outdoor space. Medium to high peopliness. Fairly high sound density.

Vestibule/ Outside (Mall Pt 2)

start:
small space, doors opening and closing, music playing
end:
parking lot - seagulls, traffic, voices

1:44 minutes (2 MB)

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.

Parking Lot/ Grocery Store/ Mall/ Vestibule(Mall Pt 1)

start:
parking lot; grocery carts rolling on pavement; car ignition
end:
small space, doors opening and closing, music playing

1:01 minutes (1.17 MB)

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.

Exiting Post office

start:
people, footsteps
end:
street, traffic, people

1:00 minutes (1.37 MB)

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 4 pm. Walking out of the main post office in Helsinki centrum. Starting with talking people, footsteps, clothes rustling etc drowned in hall ambience, proceeding through some loud doors, entering street (traffic, car engine noise, lots of people etc).

Exiting Pasila railwaystation

start:
big hall
end:
parking lot

1:01 minutes (1.39 MB)

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 3 pm. A transition from the big hall of the Pasila trainstation (footsteps on stone, people talking) and exiting it through the main doors (sliding doors) and standing a while on the parking lot (seaqulls, people talking, traffic, car engine noise etc)

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