was walking in the city exploring noise sources and recordning.
- restaurant
- transportation
- traffic
- people
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new positive noise:
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STEPS:
-in the "Holy Week Processions", at Easter
-during a General Strike -some years ago there was one, and there wasn't any traffic, the sound of the steps capture my attention.
-my own steps when I arrive home late at night
-a girl with high heels
BELLS: Not only from the churches but as well the glockenspiels of the municipal buildings, amazing in Holland!
The SIRENS of the boats just after 12am on New Year's Eve.
The SOUTHERN WIND in the street behind calle Cervantes, in Santander, Spain. My bedroom during my childhood looked to that street and when the wind from the south blew, it made a "canyon effect" and it snorted, I could hear as well the windows and the doors slamming.
The sound made by the men who used to clean the shoes in the streets and bars, the sound of their hand hitting the surface in order to apply the shoe cream and the sound of the brush through the leather surface. I used to go with my grandfather to the shoe-shine man at the entrance of the tunnel, and I remembered that feeling during my trip to Bolivia, but still in Madrid and Barcelona you can find them.
The sound of the DOMINO at the bars
The effect of the snow, that absorbs the noises
An anecdote: 20 years ago I spent a couple of months in Barcelona and I rented an apartment in a wide avenue, the traffic was very loud. One night, I was almost sleeping when suddenly I woke up startled thinking that the world had stopped and that the trumpets of the Apocalypses would started to sound... This momentary silence was just caused by the coincidence of various traffic lights...
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The sound of a coffee machine making an esspresso; the low rumble of people's voices in a cafe; the sound of a helicopter flying overhead; the sound of traffic and cars... to know your in a city and a place full of life. The abence of this (ie. living in telefonplan) makes it really noticable when you go back to living in a city and the noise of peoples happening's make you feel alive and part of a city's essence. That there are things hapening around you that you are also part of.
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recordings today :
- road traffic
- church
- subway
- grocery store
- ice hacker
- shawarma
- coffee store outside
- people
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inspiration link today:
http://www.soundcities.com/
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noise pod picture today:
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