ML161041
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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Car ride ambiance. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:14:04. Notes: Location 1. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Roadside restaurant sounds. Timecode In: 00:14:04. Timecode out: 00:29:54. Notes: Location 1. Subject 3: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Car ride ambiance. Timecode In: 00:29:55. Timecode out: 00:42:18. Notes: Location 1. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Vrindavan night ambiance. Timecode In: 00:43:57. Timecode out: 00:58:51. Notes: 37927. Subject 5: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Outside temple ambiance. Timecode In: 01:32:47. Timecode out: 02:08:55. Notes: 37928. Habitat: ; ; Equipment Notes: Subject 1-3 recorded with DPA omni mics. Subject 4, 5 is decoded MS stereo. Show: Geography of Heaven: India Log of DAT #: 1 Engineer: Flawn Williams Date: November 2003 DAT 01: Saturday Nov 1 evening. DPAs clipped to seats inside car. 00000 Highway trip sounds along Highway 2 from Delhi to Vrindavan. General undifferentiated auto rumble. 00455 Car horns Doppler by, steady roar of car. 01215 Change highway sound/restart recording on the road. Stop, accelerate from stop. 01400 Ambiance at roadside restaurant: traffic passing, passersby greet me with "Haribo" and "Hare Krishna". 01500 reposition mikes to window for better ambiance of roadside restaurant 01530 vocal music from CD player in kiosk, generator noise, 01630 good passing truck horns with music in background 01845 traffic continues, music changes to faster beat song 02300 music stops, traffic drivebys continue, good perspective 02400 car door opens and closes 02440 good passing truck horn and traffic sounds ***** 02710 nearby conversations, traffic continues. 02956 restart car, leave roadside restaurant, roadway rumble. 03140 car horn, stop to turn around, accelerate from stop, more road rumble. 03649 restart recorder with road rumble. 03800 slow down and stop for toll booth on highway, driver and I discuss tolls. 03945 fancy multitone truck horn, followed by road rumble pulling away from toll booth. ***** 04106 silence Restart Sunday late night Nov 2, Up on roof of MVT compound. Distant ambiance, power transformer hum, crickets, 04119 Flawn slates change to MS miking. distant temple amplified music, occasional car horns. 04335 dog barks, other sounds continue. 04355 relocate mikes to get less power transformer hum. 04454 on deck outside our MVT apartment, crickets are louder, dogs bark, power hum is still there. 04520 good reverberant dogs, power hum persists. ***** 04800 distant drummer in street with power hum. 04948 early morning ambi from Flawn's room, birds and distant temples. 05100 reverby bird calls with power hum background 05400 slate recording from room, ID as either parrots or monkeys, continue with distant amplified solo male voice chant and general city hum 05745 back announce Sunday night recordings, then silence 05830 Restart Monday Nov 3 4am. at ISKCON temple near MVT compound. 05910 Active chanting mid distant perspective, conches blow, ***** then chanting gets more faint. 10125 Single chant leader with response from group, drum, cymbals 10840 gets more active, clapping along, faster group chant 11038 that chant ends, drop back to quieter slower call & response 12100 shift to most familiar tune of Hare Krishna, higher energy & tempo 12355 conches blown added to high energy chant ***** 12555 end chant, segue to call and response prayer 12720 new slow chant, tiny bells, big bell, nice start ***** 13050 chant continues, I leave, so chant fades away to more distant perspective.Outside ambi, crickets with distant prayer, spoken announcements 13800 handling noise as I move away from temple. Some water sounds, generator sounds. 14015 sweeping in dust with crickets and distant chants. Starts distant, gets gradual... (Notes truncated)
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- Recorder
- SONY TCD-D8
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
- Accessories
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 24 Mar 2010 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 24 Mar 2010 - David McCartt
- Edited
- 24 Mar 2010 - David McCartt