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

WRECK BEACH, JUNE 12/2010
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
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. Segewick 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 just 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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