WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT TAPE LIBRARY

EUROPE COLLECTION

REEL 7 [DAT 4]

Skruv, Sweden Feb.19/75

A [ID 1 0:17]

1. WOODS NEAR BREWERY, BY STREAM

[ID 2 5:44]

2. FIRE, BURNING OF OLD POP CASES

[ID 3 7:26]

3. BROKEN GLASS, BREWERY

mark * broken glass [7:34]

[ID 4 8:01]

4. QUIET AMBIENCE, WEST OF BREWERY

mark * Brewery whistle [11:43]

[ID 5 15:17]

5. OUTSIDE LUMBERYARD, A SHORT CONVERSATION

B [ID 6 15:59]

6. ENTERING HOTEL, CONVERSATION: SOUNDSCAPERS - ORGANIST

[ID 7 19:23]

7. A WALK FROM THE HOTEL TO THE STATION ALONG STORGATAN

mark * excited birds [21:23]

C [ID 8 22:45]

8. RAILWAY STATION

mark * small train coming in (see commentary) [26:50]

D [ID 9 35:02]

9. STORGATAN, EXCITED BIRDS

10a. (false start)

[ID 10 37:04]

10b. SOUNDWALK BREWERY TO STATION

mark * start of walk [37:55]

 

COMMENTARY

1. Very low level recording; quiet gurgle of creek, distant street and brewery ambience. Train bell, train whistle, train passes in distance; siren from Glassworks simultaneously.

3. Very short take.

4. Steam whistle sounds asthmatic, funny! Shortly after whistle a moped passing.

6. Conversation between an organist and soundscapers. Organist tells story of a church ringing scheduled the next day, 2 p.m. (see Reel 8 take 5) for a funeral in another town; the deceased was a former Skruv resident. Footsteps on wooden stairs in background; room ambience extremely quiet; squeaking floorboard.

7. A Soundwalk with footsteps of recordist. Street ambience sometimes very quiet, cars passing only occasionally.

8. A sequence: small train stopping, people walking by, talking; a bell sound, the bop-bop-bop train motor, motor stops, banging of door; extremely quiet ambience; somebody whistling lightly; motorbike starting, driving away; big train passing through, blowing whistle small train starting off, leaving car horn. Good sequence.

9. Very short take.

10b. Footsteps accompany almost continuously, stopping only once in a while: good effect throughout most of the walk; a high pitch audible -source must be some motor.


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