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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Las Vegas ambi. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:38:43. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Casino ambi. Timecode In: 00:40:15. Timecode out: 00:46:12. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Julian Rhinehart. Timecode In: 00:46:52. Timecode out: 01:55:44. Notes: Hoover Dam. Habitat: Urban; ; Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Stereo; Neumann RSM 190. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS CALIFORNIA WATER TAPE 1 LAS VEGAS *** NEUMANN RSM-190 MICROPHONE *** 0:00:02 AMBIENCE ... VOLCANO OF WATER .. OUTSIDE MIRAGE HOTEL IN LAS VEGAS .. PRETTY GENERIC SOME WIND AT TIMES --MILD TRAFFIC 0:01:08 SAME WITH HORN IN BACKGROUND AND SOME VOICES CLOSER 0:02:16 AMBIENCE ... CLOSER TO WATER .. STILL VERY GENERIC --WITH SOME BIRDS 0:05:10 AMBIENCE ... QUIETER WATER FALL SOUND ... (STREAM HITTING ROCKS) --BUBBLY SOUNDS WITH GENERAL FALLS AROUND IT --BUBBLY AND GURGLEY SIREN IN BACKGROUND AT 8:10 0:09:22 AMBIENCE ... MORE GENERIC WATERFALL --A LOT LIKE TAPE HISS --OCCASIONAL WIND NOISE --LEVEL GOES UP AT 10:10 0:13:15 DISCUSSION WITH POTENTIAL RAPPERS 0:13:50 AMBIENCE .. TRAFFIC ON THE STRIP IN LAS VEGAS .. --LAS VEGAS BOULEVARD --SIRENS NEAR THE TOP --THEY GO BY EVENTUALLY 0:15:20 AMBIENCE OF TRAFFIC CONTINUES --WITH SOME KIND OF LOUDSPEAKER FAINTLY IN THE BACKGROUND 0:19:00 AMBIENCE .. WET AND WILD .. KIDS IN SCREAMING IN OCEAN POOL .. PRETTY GOOD SOUND OF KIDS .. YELLING AND SPLASHING --LOUDSPEAKER MUSIC IN DISTANT BACKGROUND 0:21:15 KIDS VOICES GET CLOSER TO THE MIC AND MORE DISTINCT --SOUNDS OF YOUTHFUL JOYFULNESS --MUSIC LOUDER IN BACKGROUND 0:23:05 A DISTANT YELL FROM THE LIFEGUARD 0:23:50 AMBIENCE --KIDS SLIDE POOL .. 0:24:24 MOM CALLS: "C'MON CHRISTINE .. SHE'LL SWIM .. C'MON BABY YOU CAN SWIM" 0:24:55 THERE YOU GO .. WAS THAT FUN? --FOLLOWED BY TWO LOUD SPLASHES AND GENERAL POOL AND PERIODIC SPLASH SOUNDS --AIRPLANE PASSES BRIEFLY AT 25:55 0:26:35 SOUND OF RUSHING WATER WITH THE SPLASHES --BLUE TUBES 0:28:05 AMBIENCE ... THE GIANT SLIDE .. (BOMB BAY) --HEAR PEOPLE'S VOICES, TAPE IN BACKGROUND, SPLASHING WATER SOUNDS ... THEN SOUND OF GUY COMING DOWN SHOOT YELLING FOLLOWED BY BIG SPLASH .. AND MORE SPLASHES AFTER THAT LOUDSPEAKER PERIODICALLY --AIRPLANE AT 29:30 0:30:50 AMBIENCE --START OF WHITE WATER RIDE --WILLIE WILLIE --"OKAY EVERYBODY .. FAST OR SLOW" .. THEN SOUND OF RIDE BEGINS ... BUILDS SLOWLY 0:32:50 KIDS GET MORE VOCAL AS THEY FLOAT BY 0:36:40 RIDE ENDS AND KIDS EVENTUALLY WALK OUT 0:38:45 AMBIENCE -¬ STREET OUTSIDE HOTEL 0:38:55 AMBIENCE ENTERING HOTEL.... PASSING WATER FOUNTAIN (QUIET FOOTSTEPS DOWN HALLWAY, VOICES, ETC.) 0:39:55 SOUND OF CASINO STARTS .. BEGINS TO GET CLEARER AND MORE SPECIFIC AROUND 40:15 0:40:20 SLOT MACHINES GET LOUD AND MUSICAL ... MONEY GOING IN 0:41:00 AMBIENCE OF COINS DROPPING IN -¬ TWO RF BURSTS 0:42:20 VERY SPECIFIC COINS 0:42:40 "WATCH THAT" .. "WHO'S HITTIN' ME, WHO'S HITTIN ME?" 0:43:20 AMBIENCE OF GENERAL DIN -¬ COINS, SLOTS, MUSICAL SLOTS, ETC. 0:44:43 AMBIENCE CONTINUES WITH MUSICAL SLOTS GETTING MORE INSISTENT ** HOOVER DAM ** *** NEUMANN KMR-81 HYPER-CARDIOID MICROPHONES *** 0:46:19 GENERAL HANGING AROUND 0:46:50 JULIAN RHINEHART .. DESCRIBING .. MODEL OF GENERATION UNIT IF YOU LOOK TO LEFT YOU WILL SEE AN ARROW INDICATING FLOW OF WATER FROM A 30-FOOT PENSTOCK (OR PIPE) .. FLOWS IN HORIZONTAL FASHION INTO A SCROLL CASE WHICH HOLDS A WATER WHEEL (SOMETIMES CALLED A TURBINE RUNNER) .. FORCING W.W. TO ROTATE IN A HORIZONTAL FASHION AND AS WATER FLOWS THROUGH WATER WHEEL THROUGH THE VENTS IT WILL GO IN A DOWNWARD PATH OUT INTO THE TAIL RACE WHICH IS THE AREA IMMEDIATELY DOWNSTREAM OF THE DAM. IN THE PROCESS ENERGY IS TRANSFERRED FROM THE FALLING WATE... (Notes truncated)
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- 2 Jun 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 2 Jun 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 2 Jun 2005 - Ben Brotman