ML148474
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Subject: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Market ambi. Timecode In: 00:19:21. Timecode out: 00:37:23. Equipment Notes: Spaced Omni Stereo; DPA 4060. Show: ELEPHANTS Log of DAT #: 1A Engineer: Bill McQuay Date: February 19, 2002 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good Note: Using vest mics with the Sonosax preamps Music at the hotel from Bill's balcony [ng] 10:09 AC Standup: We're in the market, we're trying to buy some potatoes. This is called 5 kilometer market. It's five km from downtown Bangui, and it's full of people walking along the street. There are some shops. Some people have set up shops, others just have goods at the side of the road on a piece of burlap ¿..[buying potatoes] + Ambi [ng] 19:21 - 23:50 Ambi from the market [SS] [G] jingling, cars, horns, people passing 26:07 ¿ 37:19 Get out of truck and walk through the market again. Listen around 27:34 ff - Best Ambi ¿ hotter, brighter, more active 36:04 ¿ Car beep plus more ambi leading to Alex's Standup in the market. 37:24 AC Standup: "It sounds as though we're in the middle of Times Square, but this is actually a rutted dirt road running behind a couple of hundred yards of storefront, and just a lot of people here selling everything, there's a fire cooking right in front of me. There's a woman, she's got some water going, potatoes for sale, a lot of onions, oil, second hand clothes, 38:11 ¿ 39:49 [pickup] but this is actually an African market. There's a couple hundred yards of storefront and this rutted dirt road running down between it, and people all along either side. And lots of yellow taxis going by, people pushing carts full of all kinds of goods, benches stacked. The market's closing up now, wrapping up in burlap piles of second hand clothes, putting away piles of potatoes, onions, garlic, dried chili's¿.. 39:37 It's just quarter after six in the evening, but the sun is gone, there are a few street lights on. When it gets dark here things stop. The market's closing. End of market at 41:15 42:03 - Ambi at hotel ¿ rainstorm to 1:11:30 End [ng].
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- Cataloged
- 9 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 9 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 9 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman