voices

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 transition

start:
street, blacksmith
end:
sewer, rushing water

1:50 minutes (2.11 MB)

A transition between the Helsinki blacksmith-fountain clip and the Ottawa road-sewer clip.

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-streetspace-steps-vox

start:
traffic, breaks, horn, open space
end:
traffic rumble, voices, fast crickets

1:05 minutes (1016.78 KB)

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.

airport - street

start:
airport interior
end:
street

1:41 minutes (1.54 MB)

This audio file is a record of the way of going out of the airport to the street. Some of the sounds registered are: voices, cough, mechanical stairs, automatic doors, traffic (low), horn.

Montreal Biodome: Exhibition hall to cinema

start:
main exhibition hall - voices, multiple languages, and the prominent sounds of people using the exhibits
end:
the sound of a group of Thai men from the film

0:52 minutes (1 MB)

May 16th 2007, afternoon. Montreal Biodome. Medium peopliness; high-ish sound density. Indoors.
From the main exhibition hall - voices, multiple languages, and the prominent sounds of people using the exhibits - to a small cinema, with the music and narrative of the film dominant. Closes with the sound of a group of Thai men from the film - maybe another (brief) example of one space intruding on another?

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


1:08 minutes (1.3 MB)

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.

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