WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT TAPE LIBRARY

VANCOUVER DAT COLLECTION

DAT 2

HORSESHOE BAY, SURROUNDING AREA NOV. 3, 1991

 

FOREST ABOVE HORSESHOE BAY

1. forest ambience 2:08

2. forest ambience 0:56

3. forest ambience 2:49

4. forest ambience 3:55

5. stream 2:12

6. stream, small rapids 0:25

7. stream, small rapids 1:08

8. stream 0:44

9. small rapids 2:00

10. small rapids 4:50

11. facing canyon, stream behind 3:16

12. canyon with stream 7:34

13. soundwalk along stream 9:14

14. soundwalk along stream, "wanding" mic 9:48

15. trickling stream 1:00

16. trickling stream 0:28

17. trickling stream 1:20 18. trickling stream 0:41

19. trickling stream 0:30

 

DAT 2 COMMENTARY

1. distant sea plane above Horseshoe bay, squirrel at 1:44

2. continuation of above, more squirrel sounds

3. above Horseshoe bay, forest ambience with squirrel

4. with squirrel and birds, some mic noise, transformer hum and stream in distance

5. from 50 feet above, some birds and hum of transformer

6. from 20 feet above, some mic noise, short

7. from 6 feet from stream, slight phasing from the reflections of the canyon wall

8. good stereo, mic noise throughout

9. broadband rush of water, little variation

10. nice left to right events, musical water sounds, mic direction movement at 3:30, plane in distance at 3:45

11. hollow resonance with interesting low frequencies, broadband

12. "wanding" microphone, slight phasing effect, some gurgling at 2:00, tumbling water at 3:35

13. streamwalk with several close-up recorded events along the way, nice bubbling and gurgling at 1:58, nice close-up gurgling at 4:24

14. streamwalk with "wanding" of mic towards the canyon wall, variety of perspectives, nice low frequencies at 2:25, trickling at 5:15, gurgling at 8:12, 360 degree sweeps near end of take

15. under a footbridge, musical water droplets

16. different mic position from above, interesting resonances, short take

17. close-up version, also nice resonances

18. recorded further under footbridge

19. from 8 feet, more distant, larger stream in background


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