late afternoon

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...

Rapids to woods, with a car in between

start:
water, rapids
end:
woods, birds

1:45 minutes (1.61 MB)

May 10 07 late afternoon, Ottawa river, outdoors, zero peopliness, rapids, car, birds, fairly dense, starts with steady rush of rapids, ends in woods with birds etc. Less a space-transition, more a density/texture-transition maybe...?

Traffic to woods

start:
highway, cars, traffic
end:
woods, birds

1:47 minutes (1.64 MB)

May 10th late afternoon. Ottawa River Parkway. Outdoors. Quite dense to medium density. medium-busy highway traffic to woods (birds etc.)

Woods to filtration plant hum

start:
woods, birds
end:
industry hum

1:59 minutes (1.82 MB)

May 10th, late afternoon. Ottawa West Filtration Plant. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. From woods (birds etc) to the medium-to-loud hum outside a water treatment facility. (Technically the same 'space', but different sound worlds...)

Woods, plane passes overhead

start:
woods, birds
end:
same

1:55 minutes (1.76 MB)

May 10th, late afternoon. Mud Lake conservation area, Ottawa. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. In the woods (birds etc); a plane passes overhead, close enough to be quite loud. Does this constitute a transition? I have not moved; my space has not changed. But the shift from natural sound to the sound of the plane is a dramatic shift in cultural space... (Plus the plane has a nice symbolic link with our themes of transitions, different local and geographical spaces, etc...)

road/traffic to sewer/water

start:
highway, traffic
end:
water, tunnel

2:00 minutes (1.84 MB)

May 10th, late afternoon. Ottawa River Parkway. Outdoors. Dense sound activity. Starts with medium-heavy highway traffic; tranisition to the inside of a sewer tunnel - rapidly flowing water in an enclosed concrete space.

Woods to road/traffic

start:
woods, birds
end:
highway, traffic

1:48 minutes (1.65 MB)

May 10th late afternoon. Ottawa River Parkway. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. Woods (birds etc) to medium-busy highway (traffic - buses, cars.)

Lake to woods

start:
lake
end:
woods

1:23 minutes (1.59 MB)

May 10 late afternoon. Mud Lake, Ottawa. Outdoors. Zero peopliness. Medium density. No traffic (well, some quite distant traffic.)
This is an attempt at a transition between two entirely outdoor 'spaces' - an open lake versus within the woods. The spatial shift is a bit subtle, though slightly supported by a shift in the sound sources (less/more birds/frogs/crickets...)

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