ML161097
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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Street sounds. Timecode In: 00:00:52. Timecode out: 00:01:05. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Unidentified man, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:01:34. Timecode out: 00:03:28. Notes: Area discussion. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Jan Salick, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:03:30. Timecode out: 00:15:10. Notes: Conservation discussion. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Street sounds. Timecode In: 00:16:53. Timecode out: 00:23:36. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Jan Salick, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:23:37. Timecode out: 00:25:16. Notes: Botany discussion. Subject 6: (Interview). Subtitle: Norbu, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:25:17. Timecode out: 00:28:40. Notes: Tibetan spiritual discussion. Subject 7: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Passing bells. Timecode In: 00:28:40. Timecode out: 00:30:28. Subject 8: (Interview). Subtitle: Unidentified man, Jan Salick. Timecode In: 00:32:29. Timecode out: 00:46:37. Notes: Glacier discussion with English translation by Elizabeth Arnold. Subject 9: bird sp. (Aves sp.). Timecode In: 00:47:01. Timecode out: 00:49:25. Subject 10: (Interview). Subtitle: Jan Salick, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 00:57:29. Timecode out: 01:14:40. Notes: Glacier and plant discussions. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo. Sonosax pre-amps used. Reporter: Elizabeth Arnold Engineer: Leo delAguila Interviews with: Jan Salick and Whi Jou Song[sp??], president of Tibetan Cultural Research Institute Logged By: ESN 0:00 LdA: Testing. Dat 5. We are on an overview of this holy mountain, Kowa [?], I think. We are going to be recording ambience, the set up is the same, MS Stereo, my M is MKH 40, my S is MKH 30 and sonasax preamps into a D8, and headphones. 1:00 EA, LdA: informal talking. 1:30 EA: Can you tell us where we are? 1:35 [street sounds, people talking in BG] ??: Uh so now we are in Dequin[?]. Dequin[?] county, one of counties in Dequin[?] prefecture. And you know, here is. this pass is called Medulaka[?] in the Tibetan language and from here you can see you know the uh Kowkebu[?] which is the eight, you know, one of the eight sacred mountain in the whole Tibetan region, and it is you know recognized as one of the most powerful holy mountain in tibetan culture, and every year, millions of pilgrims come here to worship the mountain. 2:21 ??: And there are two pilgrim- pilgrimage. One is the Korina[?] pilgrimage which takes three to seven days, and then the other one they make a big circle around the whole mountain that takes two weeks. 2:40 EA: It's a very popular place today a lot of people here. Tourists, but also pilgrims¿ 2:50 [street sounds, people talking in BG] ??: Those pilgrims come from central Tibet, they are prostrating all the way down from Lasa[?] down to this sacred land. And you know some may die on the way. You can always say that every year, like there are like many pilgrims die on the pilgrimage way. Tibetan people if you can die on the pilgrimage, that's one of the luckiest thing that could happen to a pilg-- pilgrim. 3:30 EA: So, Jan you were saying that you've done some work up here? 3:32 [People talking, bells, in background] JS: This is Felashe[?] and it's got some very famous sacred forests behind us are sacred oak forests and they have huge trees. Old old oak trees you can see the prayer flags hanging off of them and so on And so one of our studies-we did an initial study where we found out that plant diversity, useful plant species, endemic plant species are much more common are much more prominent in sacred sites than in non sacred sites. 4:13 [People talking, bells, in background] JS: And so we then did a more refined study, comparing sacred sites with non sacred sites in-- but within the same same forest types to see if there were fine scale differences as well as these broad s... (Notes truncated)
Additional species
- bird sp. Aves sp.
Technical information
- Recorder
- SONY TCD-D8
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
- Accessories
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- Cataloged
- 13 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 13 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
- Edited
- 13 Jul 2010 - David McCartt