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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Train passing. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:16:09. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Spring water ambi. Timecode In: 00:16:09. Timecode out: 00:19:44. Subject 3: (Equus asinus asinus). Timecode In: 00:29:57. Timecode out: 00:30:09. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Call to Prayer. Timecode In: 00:37:56. Timecode out: 00:41:00. Subject 5: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Water flowing. Timecode In: 00:41:28. Timecode out: 00:48:58. Subject 6: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Wind through palms. Timecode In: 01:29:18. Timecode out: 01:32:19. Subject 7: (Interview). Subtitle: Muhammad. Timecode In: 01:37:12. Timecode out: 01:47:05. Habitat: Desert. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Spaced Omnis; Neumann KM-83; Split Track. Water piece tape log EGYPT DAT #4 ROAD TO BAHARYYH ¬ 00:00:00 -waiting for the train. toot at :19. another toot a :45,then slowly begin to pass. sort of dull at first, w/o the choo-choo stuff you expect, but then gets much better, clanky and rattly, and then goes off to be followed by great wind. 00:02:54 -very good wind, then dies and train way in back. 00:03:30 -desert ambi. light wind. talk way back. 00:04:30 -reset. unkn hum in right channel. 00:05:12 -train is going to come ...nothing there, but light talk way in back. sounds like english. 00:07:30 -still waiting for train...starting to come in right channel, I think, or a distant truck on hiway. 00:08:44 -nice wind up, but big hum coming on, and whistle at 9:00 -something happens to sound at pass...blows out, lose left channel? (possible to have Chuck reconstruct this?) 00:10:20 -reset for train. 00:12:00 -faint chooing in right channel? 00:13:17 -something coming on, but a kind of beating sound in left channel, sounds odd. Then I don't know what happens, but it sounds great. train pass slow? steam brakes blow...great steamy stuff going by....possible user. BAHARYYH ROMAN SPRING 00:16:10 -set up stuff, goats, flies and kids in back. roll a 17:10 -flies very apparent., break and reset. 00:17:40 -set and roll. bubbly trickly water. break and reset. 00:18:18 -break and reset. 00:18:34 -bubbly, kids, break 00:18:48 -roll, bubbly, goat, kids yelling, flies. break at 19:15 00:19:22 -bubbly, kids, goats. (may be able to put a bed together from all this, but nothing very long here...probably not :30 uninterrupted. note we maybe should have gone down w/Russ to do this as it sounds as though he was having trouble.) MOHAMMED'S DAD'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOSQUE. 00:20:30 -baharyyh neighbor hood scene setter.. clothing rustle at 21:10, then settle down. nicely spaced Arabic voices, some young, some old, all male. donkey bray way in back. maybe more urban sounding than you think. an Arabic shout at 22:20. more of same. a horn way off somewhere. this is good. good kid shout at 23:10. mic hit at 23:25. kids cluster at mic., laughing. kids very apparent, Mohammed tells them to leave.. all in Arabic. gone by 24:07. very good bed stuff. S/O 00:24:15 -Russ breaks, sets for chimes. S/O. at 24:47, a truck pulls up and stops. good sound. 00:25:30 -wait for chimes, break, reset. 00:27:45 -another take, slightly hotter levels, outdoor feeling, cattle lowing, some loud talk, good extended conversation going on loud. kid up close chuckling. beep, car pass & stop. 00:29:37 -officials are arriving?, break. 00:29:55 -donkey brays and passes, child cries. great.:; 00:30:50 -child still crying in back. hear call to prayer elsewhere (?). Yes, call starting. 31:28 ...very bad speaker audio. CALL TO PRAYER 00:35:20 -Russ at night site to record call to prayer. 9:10 p.m. ambi roll, public outdoor ambi, roomier than earlier, some nig~ insects. occasional traffic, some talk. motorcycle pass at 36:55. 00:37:57 -call to prayer. still p.a. audio, a littl... (Notes truncated)
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- 13 Jan 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 13 Jan 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 13 Jan 2005 - Ben Brotman