WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
TAPE LIBRARY
VANCOUVER 2010-11
COLLECTION
FOLDER 4 - UBC


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WRECK BEACH, JUNE 12/2010
1.
Soundwalk,
4:42
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, JULY 15/2010
2.
Behind the
MOA, 4:02
3.
Inside the
MOA, 0:31
4.
Inside the
MOA, 3:49
BEACH BEHIND THE MOA, JULY 15/2010
5.
Beach
Recording, 4:30
VARIOUS CAMPUS LOCATIONS, AUGUST 26/2011
6.
Student
Union Building I, 5:30
7.
Student
Union Building II, 3:31
8.
Buchanan
Tower Soundwalk, 7:53
9.
Sedgewick
Library (now the Koerner Library) basement, 5:14
10.
Outside
the Music Building, 3:38
11.
Nitobe
Memorial Garden, 6:03
FOLDER 4 COMMENTARY
1. *Soundwalk*, Track ID @ intro, Rastafari
singing
reggae in Spanish at beginning, thousands of people are on the
beach, @
1:20 - band performing a Doors tune "Roadhouse Blues" to an
audience of
about 40-50 people, sunny, gorgeous day, people playing
frisbee @ 3:15,
Storytelling @ 3:35 (explicit), conversation in Spanish @
4:35.
2. Track ID @ intro, recording was taken while sitting on a
log amidst
the Bill Reid carvings, photograph "beep" from a visitor's
camera @
0:35, footsteps @ 0:55, boat can be heard at a distance
(engine sound)
at aprox 1:00, birdsong is faint and sporadic from the nearby
trees and
foliage, discussion amongst visitors @ 1:55, airplane
beginning @ 2:40.
3. Track ID @ intro, high ceilings - reverberant space.
4. Footsteps at 10 sec, not many people around as it is set to
close at
5pm (within 15 mins of this recording), moderate amount of
activity
taking place - camera sound (beeps & shutters), chatter
amongst
guests, footsteps.
5. Track ID @ intro, no clouds - not very windy, not many
people on the
beach, waves crashing upon the shore as keynote, someone walks
past me
over the rocks that line the shore @ 4:05, I made this
recording while
sitting on a log, about 10 metres back from the water.
6. Track ID @ intro, truck (or sidewalk cleaner) passes at
0:50, ambient voices of people relaxing on the lawn (I'm in
front of
the SUB at a distance of about 100 ft), bird chirping at 2:10,
truck in
reverse from a distance at 2:55 (construction ambience), truck
in
reverse at 3:35, loud crash at 4:23 - construction materials,
truck
passes at 5:17.
7. Same position as previous recording, begins with truck in
reverse -
beeping, bird chirp at 0:54, crash at 1:09, truck engine at
1:54,
voices at 2:30, horn at 3:20.
8. Track ID @ intro, sitting by a tree joust outside the front
door off
to the right, some wind, truck passes at 1:20, bike passes at
2:04,
begin walking at 3:10, enter building at 3:30, ventilation
sounds/vending machines, enter escalator at 4:05, off at 12th
floor -
history department, circle the hallway - soundwalk past
offices, get
back on the escalator at 6:35, exit at 7:13, exit building at
7:30,
track ID @ end.
9. Track ID @ intro, custodian passes at the beginning of the
track,
counter clockwise walk of the library, pass another custodian
at 2:00,
track id @ 2:30 - in the study carrells, the library is mostly
empty
because the recording was made the week prior to the fall
semester
starting, past the bathrooms at 3:40, past the copy room at
4:15, back
into the main basement hallway at 4:45, track ID @ end.
10. Track ID @ intro, brass quartet outside the music building
holding
a practice, garbage truck passes at 0:55, horn at 1:30, they
begin the
piece again at 2:50, end at 3:30.
11. Track ID @ intro, traffic ambience from nearby road
(sporadic), car
radio at 1:05, voices at 1:30, plane at 2:25, bird at 2:54,
loud
car/motorcycle/truck at 3:10, car & motorcycle at 3:55,
bird at
4:20, plane at 5:15.
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