footsteps

pavers-steps-bus


1:01 minutes (953.92 KB)

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).

leaving home

start:
home
end:
quiet street

1:59 minutes (1.82 MB)

This is a record of the sounds made at the moment of leaving home and going out to the street.
A list of the registered sounds: steps, rubbing of the clothes, door, keys, closing the door, lift, rack, steps on the ground

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.

Restaurant - Kamppi hall

start:
restaurant
end:
kamppi

1:02 minutes (1.43 MB)

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. A transition from a restaurant inside the Kamppi shopping center (dishes, clings, chatter, quiet music, baby) to the Kamppi hall (hall ambience, high peopliness, footsteps).

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)

Exiting Kamppi


0:59 minutes (1.36 MB)

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. Leaving the Kamppi shopping center from a secluded door. People talking, footsteps on stone, dishes etc in a hall -> escalator -> hall reverberation disappears, cars, footsteps on gravel, a small construction site, skateboarders.

Metro Ride

start:
metro tunnel on a platform
end:
doors opening, broadening of ambience

1:41 minutes (1.93 MB)

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. A recording starting in a metro tunnel on a platform where a metro is just arriving (people talking, footsteps, sound of a metro arriving, pneumatic sound of doors opening), entering a metro (moving into a smaller space), a short metro ride (bizarre chatter, metro moving) and exiting metro (doors opening, broadening of ambience).

Busstops - Kamppi corridor


1:15 minutes (1.71 MB)

Sat 12.5.07, Helsinki, around 1 pm. A transition from outside Kamppi shopping center (bus engine noise, distant traffic, footsteps, people) to inside it (escalator -> footsteps, weird rhytmic and pitched sound, restaurants close by).

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