ML161052
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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Nandan Swami, Alex Chadwick. Timecode In: 00:00:40. Timecode out: 00:01:41. Notes: Religion and culture discussion. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Govardhan Hill ambiance. Timecode In: 00:01:41. Timecode out: 00:18:16. Subject 3: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Car ride ambiance. Timecode In: 00:20:33. Timecode out: 00:23:18. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Monastary sounds. Timecode In: 00:23:45. Timecode out: 00:42:16. Notes: Includes intermittent voices. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Nandan Swami, Alex Chadwick. Timecode In: 00:42:16. Timecode out: 01:02:25. Notes: Religion and culture discussion. Subject 6: bird sp. (Aves sp.). Timecode In: 01:02:43. Timecode out: 01:03:04. Subject 7: (Interview). Subtitle: Nandan Swami, Alex Chadwick. Timecode In: 01:07:15. Timecode out: 01:28:43. Notes: Religion and culture discussion. Includes monastery sounds. Subject 8: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Religious ceremony. Timecode In: 01:29:00. Timecode out: 01:42:43. Subject 9: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Monastary sounds. Timecode In: 01:42:43. Timecode out: 02:06:21. Equipment Notes: 2x Sennheiser MKH 20. Show: Geography of Heaven; Vrindavan, India Log of DAT #: 12 Engineer: Flawn Williams Date: November 2003 DAT 12: twin 20s miking. Resume Thursday Nov 6 just before lunch. Ambis at ashram, pilgrims passing outside gates, then quiet garden within. After lunch, interior courtyard ambi of ashram. Back in cars, drive to other end of hill, walk up steps through hillside town. Water sounds in gutters, feet on stone steps. Talk with Nandan at hilltop temple. Up to the top level in time for unveiling of deity, crowd reactions. Parrots nearby. Party group arrives, dances in top level with drum and cymbal. Back down the hill, past shops blaring chunks of pop songs. End Thursday recordings. (0:03) Car door opens. AC: So this is lunch Flawn? FW: Ok. (0:45) Nd: So what we see here, giving water to the pilgrims who are very thirsty, is also part of Braj culture. One of the essential cultures to this holy land is to give water, give drinking water to the thirsty pilgrims. This is just one ample of the culture, there are pother cultures also, like that. By doing so, one who gives water to the thirsty pilgrims considers that by doing that he is acquiring some spiritual merits, like accumulating some money in the bank account. SO they are accumulating some spiritual merits in their spiritual bank account, kind. In this way. (2:00) Ambience of street life, animals, honking, talking, driving past, etc. CJ and someone are talking off mic about California. FW joins in conversation. (4:30) Cars drive past, honking loudly. (5:20) A musical horn honks past. A bird squawks. (6:10) children off mic play, people talking gets louder, a train(?) cart(?) rolls past. (6:45) Children are talking, laughing. (7:05) A motor hums past, getting louder, roars past. General Ambi of roadway continues. (7:50) A car honks loudly. General ambi continues, more of the same: talking, cars sputtering and roaring past, in distance and close to mic. Honking of cars and birds. (9:50) A car motors past loudly, other sounds of town life are fading/ have faded. Birds and shuffling of feet, footsteps most pronounced sounds, although cars continue to drive past in distance. (11:30) footsteps, people talking in background, footsteps in foreground. (12:30) getting closer and closer to a motor. (13:26) FW: How can I go up stairs? How can I go up stairs? (in background, a man's voice asks: are these stairs here?)¿Thank you¿ FW is trying to get up the stairs, AC comes down to get him. Ambis in background, city life, honking, jingling of bells, life, people (crowd hums below) (Mans voice: Oh yay, this is the season, Khartik¿.) Tape stops and starts (15:06) Tape begins again, phone... (Notes truncated)
Additional species
- bird sp. Aves sp.
Technical information
- Recorder
- SONY TCD-D8
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 20
- Accessories
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- Cataloged
- 7 Apr 2010 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 7 Apr 2010 - David McCartt
- Edited
- 7 Apr 2010 - David McCartt