ML161049
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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Vrindavan street sounds. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:06:03. Notes: Includes street musician performing. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Padmanavh Goswami, Alex Chadwick. Timecode In: 00:06:11. Timecode out: 00:47:29. Notes: Religion discussion. Subject 3: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Vrindavan street sounds. Timecode In: 00:48:06. Timecode out: 01:02:42. Notes: Includes a passing parade. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Alex Chadwick. Timecode In: 01:03:20. Timecode out: 01:04:34. Notes: Standup promo. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo, subjects 1, 3, 4. Split track with MKH50/40, subject 2. Show: Geography of Heaven Log of DAT #: 9 Engineer: Flawn Williams Date: November 2003 DAT 09: MS. Weds Nov 5 afternoon. Closer perspective of street singer/instrumentalist outside MVT compound. Go to Radha Raman Goswami's house for wonderful lunch. 02 00605 Switch to split track for interview Radha Raman temple goswami in his living room (Alex L ch MKH50, goswami R ch MKH40). 03 04750 room tone for Radha Raman goswami intv 04 04800 Switch back to MS, big noisy parade with marching brass bands, loud PAs, and floats en route back to MVT. End 1:08:05. End Weds recordings. DAT 09: MS. Weds Nov 5 afternoon. 00000 Closer perspective of street singer/instrumentalist outside MVT compound (more distant version of an earlier appearance by this same guy is on DAT 3 at 02700). Hypnotic music, drum and string player. Someone tries to sell Flawn the drum. Music stops. Quiet alley ambi for a few seconds, then clean restart music. 00200 Someone strikes up a conversation with Flawn about his recording gear. Then music continues. Music stops, conversation continues. 00350 Conversation ends, music continues. Car starts up in distance down the alley. 00500 Walk away from music, back into MVT compound. Car starts and idles. 00540 stop down,Go to Radha Raman Goswami's house for wonderful lunch. 02 00605 Switch to split track for interview Radha Raman temple Goswami in his living room (Alex L ch MKH50, Goswami R ch MKH40). (JR LOGGING BEGINS) (6:11) AC: First I should tell you who we are. We're American journalists working on a story about belief and beliefs in different people around the world. Carolyn manages a project for National Geographic and National Public Radio which is what we work for which is a network that we work for kind of like the BBC in the United States. And we're doing a series of pieces about beliefs kind of centered on the idea of beliefs about the afterlife how people, different ideas of the afterlife, how people live their lives in anticipation of the afterlife. And some people have told us about you must come to Vrindavan because it is heaven. So we are here to learn about this community. If I could just begin by asking you to say your name and how you would like to be identified. (07:19) PG: Myself Padmana Goswami from Vrindavan, this is the very holy place in India because the Lord Krishna he has took his birth in Mathra (sp), and in childhood he has played the raslila (sp) and some others game with his cowherd boys and cowherd girls on the bank of Jumuna (sp) in Vrindavan. (07:49) AC: Jumuna is the river. (07:50) PG: yay. (07:51) AC: Would you please spell your name and give me the name of the temple that you are associated with. (7:58) PG: My name is Padmanavh. P-A-D-M-A-N-A-V-H G-O-S-W-A-M-I. And Radha Raman temple. R-A-D-H-A R-A-M-A-N T-E-M-P-L-E. (8:24) AC: Thank you. It is sometimes hard. We want to get things correct. And it's hard to understand. Goswami is a title, it means something, yes? (8:36) PG: Yay Goswami is a title and that is the two senses in the Goswami. That if you will find out the surname of the Goswami it means that we are connected to the temple for the dei... (Notes truncated)
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- Recorder
- SONY TCD-D8
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40; Sennheiser MKH 50
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- Cataloged
- 2 Apr 2010 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 2 Apr 2010 - David McCartt
- Edited
- 2 Apr 2010 - David McCartt