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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...

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: 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 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: 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.

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.

tram - metro


1:16 minutes (1.16 MB)

The record starts inside of a tram. It´s possible to hear of the stops and the doors opening. Next, you heard the street (cars as well as the sound signals of the traffic lights to the pedestrians) and the way I do until arriving to the metro. It´s possible to heard voices of people and, progressively the sound of a saxofon played by a metro musician.

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