ML161096
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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Temple sounds, chanting, bells. Timecode In: 00:07:35. Timecode out: 00:35:02. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Crackling fire, voices. Timecode In: 00:35:28. Timecode out: 00:38:42. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Norbu, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:58:18. Timecode out: 01:04:00. Notes: Medicine discussions. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Fang Jun Dong, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 01:15:24. Timecode out: 01:30:41. Notes: Plant discussions. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo. Sonosax pre-amps used. Reporter: Elizabeth Arnold Engineer: Leo delAguila Interviews: Jan Salick, Norbu, Fang Jun Dong Ambi: Buddhist temples Logged By: ESN 0:00 EA, LdA: This is dat 4, outskirts of jongdien. At a Buddhist temple. Morning. Same rig. Same set up. Middel mkh40 side MKH30 into a sonosax pereamp into a DAT d8. on the outskirts of shangrila. Beautiful village. 1:40 many voices, shouts, engine in BG. 2:00 inside? Someone whistling 2:44 birds chirping footsteps faint low voices 3:00 female and male voices, speak in Chinese 3:40 walking up stairs? JS, EA voices in BG 4:40 walking up stairs? Voices in BG [heavy breathing] 5:43 EA: This is like the climb up the peak 6:00 Footsteps Voices, speaking Chinese Heavy breathing. 6:40 N: cultural revolution¿like three floors high. 7:00 footsteps on stairs. EA, JS, informal talking. 7:35 N: so he is master of first dalai lama. The first incarnation of the lama, and the first- two very prestigious living Buddha so the first one was dalai lama, and the second one was benchi[?] lama. So benchi liama now is the eleventh, dalai lama is fourteenth. so this is the master of the first reincarnation. 8:02 JS: the master of the first reincarnation lived here. N: yep. EA: and they're working on it. 8:19 sawing 8:30 sawing voices speaking inside a room? 8:50 sawing chanting 9:00 chanting -a handful of voices. All speaking at different times. 11:00 chanting -one voice near mic, particularly fast/fevered. 13:30 one voice chanting alone -young? 14:30 older male voice joins in -two chanting simultaneously 16:25 footsteps on stone? sawing 17:00 outside several voices, speaking Chinese 17:31 EA to LdA: there are a number of temples, these are the smaller ones¿haven't gotten to the big one¿ LdA: ok in a different part of the temple here 18:33 many voices, all speaking¿ 19:00 clanging -metal? 19:25 LdA: rearranging¿ 19:40 faint voices speaking Chinese 19:57 electric saw? In BG, on and off. 21:00 Many voices, speaking Chinese. 23:55 Coins? Or Beans? falling into a metal plate? 24:40 bell ringing, metal clanging, footsteps 24:55 bell ringing stops voices continue 25:10 metal clanging 26:20 LdA, JS, N, EA, converse 27:11 two male voices chanting 27:40 men chanting together really low, gutteral. 28:25 Three men chanting together. 29:08 low gutteral, then men chanting together with bell. 33:30 men's voices fade, bell continues 35:00 LdA, EA talking. 35:30 Crackling -fire? Men talking. 37:20 LdA and Norbu: making candles to use for offerings. 38:05 39:10 footsteps going upstairs faint bell ringing 39:40 bell ringing, footsteps 40:54 bell ringing subsides. 41:10 loud footsteps LdA talking 41:50 people talking, footsteps. 43:09 people talking, footsteps, faint bell ringing. 43:25 LdA, N, informal talking. 45:58 birds chirping, faint voices -some children. 46:22 LdA picture taking, informal talking. 48:10 JS: explaining sacred scarves. 48:26 EA: so there are all these different buddhas, but there is one for medicine. 48:31 JS: The medicine Buddha is one that holds a bowl of medicine and has a plant in the other hand and he is the foundatio... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D8
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
- Accessories
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 9 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 9 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
- Edited
- 9 Jul 2010 - David McCartt