ML161043
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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Vrindavan street sounds. Timecode In: 00:02:30. Timecode out: 00:27:02. Notes: Daytime via rickshaw. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Vrindavan street sounds. Timecode In: 00:27:08. Timecode out: 00:45:59. Notes: Nightime via rickshaw. Subject 3: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Temple sounds, sermon. Timecode In: 00:46:00. Timecode out: 01:15:58. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Temple sounds. Timecode In: 01:30:28. Timecode out: 01:33:55. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo. Show: Geography of Heaven: India Log of DAT #: 3 Engineer: Flawn Williams Date: November 2003 DAT 03: All MS. Monday morning to eve Nov 3. Rickshaw ride back to home. Street singer/instrument player outside compound mid distant from patio. Evening rickshaw to temple of flashing lights, hear long sermon, then chant and big bell. 1 Hr 34 mins. DAT 03: All MS. Monday morning to eve Nov 3. 00000 Slate tape, leaving Radha Raman temple heading back to MVT. 00230 footsteps leaving temple, courtyard ambi 00350 reach street, voices 00440 rickshaw pedaling sounds, occasional bumps, quiet street 00520 driver and KD confer about where to go 00550 bike bell, recorded music, active street sounds ***** 00615 horse or other animal hoof clops, 00700 pass hammering sound, then decent street ambi 00925 motorbike pass, bike bell, distant voices 01015 more apparent peddling sound, bike bell, other sounds pass 01125 pass hammering sound, then aggressive motorbike horn 01200 continuing motorbike drone nearby, voices 01245 motorbike finally passes us, heads off 01320 pass hammering sound, then another motorbike 01420 insistent motorbike horns ***** 01600 periodic bumps in pavement, then motor passes 01720 insistent close bike bell, then street ambi, more bells pass us ***** 01820 pass male voice in PA system at a temple, then motors obscure 02000 larger street, higher speed traffic passing us 02020 good 2-stroke motorcycle pass ***** 02050 jingle bells of camel wagon pass ***** 02120 good pedaling in isolation on quiet street 02300 more good pedaling in isolation, with a pig squeal ***** 02340 close miked pedaling, with some other traffic passing ***** 02420 another good 2-stroke pass, into general traffic with close pedaling 02600 back at MVT, paying rickshaw driver, then quiet street ambi 02700 restart: Street singer/instrument player outside compound distantly miked from our second floor patio at MVT. (On a later tape there's recordings of this same guy in same spot from closer perspective.) Occasional car sounds, distant firecrackers, birds, voices of people entering/leaving MVT. Makes a nice bed. ***** 03030 car loading sounds closer than musician for a while 03200 music stops, ambi continues 03245 music starts up again 03522 restart: Monday Evening rickshaw ride to town. Lotsa handling noise at first. 03620 noise settles down, street ambi moving perspective 03900 active traffic, lotsa horns, recorded music, motors ***** 03950 one guy leaning on his car horn a lot amid other ambi 04050 KD talks to driver 04120 big horn, Radhe Radhe, bike bells ***** 04220 into quieter street, bike bells, pedaling, Radhe Radhe 04600 into Radha Damodar (temple of flashing lights), left ch levels unstable for awhile 04855 hear long sermon, guys ask why I'm recording 04930 sermon continues 05100 Flawn is moving, handling noise, sermon gets fainter 05520 sermon gets a bit more animated 05750 left ch intermittent then problem clears 10700 left ch again intermittent, then clears 10730 sermon changes to sung chant for a short time, then goes to silence from altar, just low crowd hubbub 10935 distant tiny bell with crowd conversation 11230 new grungy amplified voice amid the crowd, testing his mike 11340 big bell overhead with grungy echoey PA ... (Notes truncated)
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- Recorder
- SONY TCD-D8
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
- Accessories
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- Cataloged
- 24 Mar 2010 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 24 Mar 2010 - David McCartt
- Edited
- 24 Mar 2010 - David McCartt