EMP Museum, Seattle Public Market, Portland Downtown, Steel Bridge, traffic tight, public transport, San Francisco Coit Tower, Cable Car at Hyde/Powell line, and others

September 2014

Seattle, Portland and San Francisco Soundscape

Recorded during my travel in February 2015

00.00 Quiet traffic in Main Bazaar (Delhi)
02.40 in Varanasi
04.20 Boat trip on Ganges
07.33 Ghat’s music
08.40 Ceremony at Dashashwamedh Ghat
19.30 Morning prayers
20.28 Prayers from a temple
21.48 Monkeys, voices, music
22.41 Night train to Agra
23.22 Reverb of love inside the Taj Mahal
23.52 in Agra
24.06 Welcome to Pushkar
25.10 Pushkar’s quietness
25.53 Geese and music from a Ghat
27.44 Pigeons, people
28.42 Afternoon
30.03 Pushkar’s techno
30.56 Bells
31.56 Percussions
32.52 Traditional song
36.07 Evening’s ceremony and solo prayers
43.31 Bus to Udaipur
42.02 Tabla solo of Rajasthani music in Udaipur
46.31 Fans after India beat Pakistan in Cricket’s World Cup (in Jodhpur)
48.08 Kids playing in the streets of Jaisalmer
51.39 From a restaurant in Jaisalmer
53.43 Jaisalmer’s dogs at night
54.19 Morning prayers in Jaisalmer
56.04 Excerpts from a traditional concert in the Thar Desert
64.12 Songs for God by men of the desert
67.33 Camels eating
68.45 At Gandhi Smriti
69.13 New Delhi train station
70.39 From a Guesthouse in Delhi

Sounds from India

"Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we ﬁnd it fascinating." John Cage


Hi!
These are stereo soundscape recordings I made in different places. I use to record sounds during my trips around just to have fun. I listen to them like pictures, in a way that I could remember my experiences with sound, and sometimes it amaized me better than a photo does. As they are amatorial recordings the quality is not so high, however your ears could catch a lot of details in some situations. Each track is a collage usually of the same trip, no effects added, just simple editing and a bit of compression for broadcasting. Enjoy!

Alessandro



Notes

Venice: During spring, on april 2010. Unique city, also for its exclusive soundscape: people walking, people talking (sometimes in typical dialect), birds, boats, water, water, water, water, water…

Milan : The recording begins and ends on a tram recognising the quote of the futurist Luigi Russolo who said when he went into this city “It’s much better to listen a tram clanging than a symphony of Beehtoven” (…I love Beethoven). After the intro there is a part in Monte Cimone’s park and the party of Inter supporters in the dome plaz, when their team just wins the italian championship in 2010.

Bergamo on the LXXXIII National meeting of alpine troops (may 2010): This track begins and ends in the “passante ferroviario”, an huge underground train station in Milan, which I took to arrive and returned from Bergamo. In the middle the delirium: crowds of people, screaming, chorus, trumpets, drums, fireworks…paradoxally (at 9.34) you could also find a romantic moment, where a few alpines were singing “Serenata a Castel Toblin”: it was amaizing to found them under a little undisturbed porch. I could only comment this track with a typical (untranslatable) expression from Bergamo: pota!

Netherlands: This record regards a holiday in november 2010. It begins and ends on the airplane trip. There is a girl singing a dutch song, the Utrecht train station, dutch people talking on a train to Amsterdam, and other…Beautiful bells (at 1.50) are from St. Catherine in Eindhoven.

Berlin: November 2011. On a river with swans in Kreuzberg, the Berlin subway, industrial music from the Tacheles, inside a pub with german people and a dog, etc…The end is in a students house where there is some music in the background. This part featured the voice of my friend Koppen.

Venice Soundscape

Milan Soundscape

Bergamo Soundscape

Netherlands Soundcape

Berlin Soundscape

Sicily: July 2012. The sea of Trapani from the Tramontane's walls, the cableway of Erice, the Zingaro Reserve, church and bells from Custonaci, inside a pizzeria and other.

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