FIVE VILLAGE SOUNDSCAPES



Intro by Barry Truax
Published Document
CD-Notes (as published in Acoustic Environments in Change)
CD-Notes (original 1979 publication for tracks below)


SKRUV, Sweden

Main street, Skruv
Winter Images
the glassworks (acid bath); near the railway station (a passing train); village stream; in a home; the main street at night (footsteps on frozen ground, factory ambience in background); railway station (local electric train); brewery (creek and shift whistle)

  Choir and Factory

Home Workshop and Station Platform

The Bells of Ljuder

Stockholm / Skruv

BISSINGEN, Germany


Main street and Church, Bissingen
Village & valley (right top)
Farmhouse (right bottom)



A Children's Church Service, and the Bells of Bissingen

Home and Factory

walking out of the church, overlooking fields and yards; home of Frau Weber; sewing with a treadle sewing machine; cross-fade to textile factory (110 dBA)


Adler Street

Bissingen Town & Country

Valley Sounds


CEMBRA, Italy

Easter Morning

Sounds Remembered

The Village Bellringer & A Farewell Toast

Easter Eve, St. Maria's Church

Morra

Snow games

Easter Evening

Easter 24 hour recording (complete)


 

LESCONIL, France

Point d'Eckmuhl Lighthouse

La Criée

Bretagne Dialect

Dawn Chorus


 

DOLLAR, Scotland

Acoustic profiles of the church bell and pipe band, Dollar;
(right) profiles and incoming sounds on the acoustic horizon, Dollar


Main street (A91)

On The Road to Muckert

Pipe Music


The Cemetery Gate

Golf Course and The Railway Station

David Graham's reminiscences on the golf course and at the former railway station of the sounds he heard there as a boy

David Graham being interviewed by Bruce Davis

Dollar Church - Special Request

Ripon - the Wakeman's Horn

The Bainbridge Forest Horn

Forest Horn and Dawn Chorus

Wensleydale 24-hour recording (rough mix), recorded at Semmerwater, Lund's Church, Castle Bolton and Jervaulx Abbey


More photos from the European field trip, 1975