ML148456
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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: City ambi. Timecode In: 00:02:22. Timecode out: 00:06:26. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Muslim call to prayer. Timecode In: 00:16:22. Timecode out: 00:23:00. Notes: Takbir, Allha Akbar. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Issa Mohammed, Wade Davis. Timecode In: 00:28:11. Timecode out: 01:30:32. Notes: Bul' Araf manuscript library; ancient Timbuktu. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Muslim call to prayer. Timecode In: 01:39:43. Timecode out: 01:40:06. Notes: Takbir, Allha Akbar. Habitat: ; ; Equipment Notes: Decoded MS Stereo. Show: Mali Log of DAT #:2A Engineer: Leo Date: January 11, 2003 IM = Issa Mohammed WD = Wade Davis AC = Alex Chadwick Leo = Leo del Aguila :02 Leo tests mics, speakers, and recorder, MS Stereo ¿ MKH 50 & MKH 30 into Sonosax preamp into Sony D8 recorder. 2:10 Ambi. Just outside hotel in Timbuktu, engine going. 2:24 Ambi. Clank sound and people talking. 2:51 FX. Clank sounds much more frequent, louder. 2:51 Ambi. African people talking. 4:34 FX. Truck going by. 5:07 Ambi. Low car sound. 5:39 African man asks if a certain instrument is a television in French. 5:42 AC Radio 5:43 African man, ¿Radio?¿ 5:44 AC Um-hm 5:46 African man, ¿Swiss?¿ 5:47 AC No, America. 5:50 African: ¿America?¿ 5:51 AC Um-hm, Thank you. 5:55 African: ¿Your welcome. Quite (abnormal?)for the visit. 5:57 AC Um-hm. You are. Quite nice, thank you. 5:58 African. I have nice jewelry for you. A souvenir for you. 6:01 AC No, no 6:05 FX. Loud banging. 6:12 This is silver, it¿s good. 6:13 FX. Horn honk 6:14 African. A look, same. 6:16 AC Yeah, thank you, no. Um-hm. 6:19 Ambi. Sounds of merchants, people, cars going by. 6:40 Leo Okay. I¿m outside one of the mosques here. 6:43 Ambi. People talking. 6:44 Leo And the sound of prayer is gonna come around pretty soon, I think. So let¿s see. Is a, the mosque Sankore (spells it out). I think there¿s a little chanting already. 7:12-9:09 Ambi. People talking, faint sound of chanting. 9:09-9:23 FX. Sound of car engine 9:23-10:23 Ambi. People talking, chanting, kids playing. 10:23-10:54 Ambi. Sound of walking and car revving. People talking. 10:57 FX. Youth responds to kid in other language. 10:59-12:00 Ambi. kids shouting, people talking, sounds of walking. Conversations. 12:03-12:13 FX. Engine rev and kid talking loudly. 12:13 Ambi. People talking. 12:16 FX. Kids having loud conversation. 12:34 FX. Motor revs. 12:39 Ambi. Kids talking, laughing, coughing. 12:54 Motor revs 13:07 Ambi. Kids talking, chanting at the mosque 13:23 FX motor revs 13:30 Ambi. Kids playing. Chanting. 13:45 FX. Motor revs 14:22 Ambi. Kids having conversation. Motor in background. 15:03 Someone asks a question 15:04 AC Shoes here. 15:05- Ambi. Shuffle sounds, kids talking. 15:12 African man Look at these shoes. 15:13 Ambi. People discussing something. Kids playing. Shuffle sounds. 16:35 ¿Call to prayer begins (continues till 22:59) 28:11 Issa Mohammed [IM] We are here at the Bul' Araf family¿s private library. And presently, this gentleman here is the one who is in charge of the family private library. And this library has been the oldest library in Timbuktu. And therefore it is called the mother library of Timbuktu. And most of the manuscripts that are today in the modern libraries came from, 80 percent of them, came from this library. So he¿s presently the gentleman who¿s responsible for the family, and also responsible for the manuscripts. And as you can see here, he¿s having, uh, challenges in terms of preserving this family¿s legacy. And also he¿s actually one of the scholar of Muhamen Hamu, who is the leader ... (Notes truncated)
Technical information
- Recorder
- SONY TCD-D8
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
- Accessories
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- Cataloged
- 17 Feb 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 17 Feb 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 17 Feb 2010 - Ben Brotman