'Hear Shanghai' is a collection of field recordings that encourages listening within your environment to bring you closer to where you are. All recordings are made within the municipality of Shanghai and are updated daily on our podcast.

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Hear Shanghai

This is the first track for the Hear Shanghai project. 

'Hear Shanghai' is a collection of field recordings that encourages listening within your environment to bring you closer to where you are. All recordings are made within the municipality of Shanghai and are updated daily on our podcast.

Click here to subscribe: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ling-…hai/id1052621006

http://www.hearshanghai.com

Hear Shanghai #01 - Cicadas Basketball

 31°22'49.80"N, 121°17'30.48"E. Recorded in binaural, please wear headphones.

Hear Shanghai #02- 嘉戬支路农副产品

31° 6'38.49"N, 121° 1'30.86"E. Recorded in binaural stereo. Field near the old water town of Zhujiajiao.

Hear Shanghai #3- Zhujiajiao

31°21'28.00"N, 121°30'35.91"E. Recorded January 22, 2015 in binaural stereo.

Hear Shanghai #04- 滨海公园

宁夏路531号附近. Recorded January 28, 2015 in binaural stereo.

Hear Shanghai #05- 金沙菜市场

Hear Shanghai #06- 武宁路桥

Hear Shanghai #07- 滨海公园

Hear Shanghai #10- 圆通宝殿

Hear Shanghai #11- 朱家角

Hear Shanghai #12- 罗城路

Hear Shanghai #13- 复兴岛公园

Hear Shanghai #14- Bm Space MDMT

Hear Shanghai #15- 崇明岛渡船

Hear Shanghai #16- 沪青平公路

Recorded July 15, 2015. IKEA Xuhui cashier desks. We have invited some sound recordists to submit some of their tracks to the Hear Shanghai project. This week we are featuring tracks by 希辰 a.k.a. SounDoer. http://www.soundoer.com

Hear Shanghai #35- IKEA Xuhui cashier desks

Recorded July 12, 2015. Hongqiao Train Station. We have invited some sound recordists to submit some of their tracks to the Hear Shanghai project. This week we are featuring tracks by 希辰 a.k.a. SounDoer. http://www.soundoer.com

Hear Shanghai #36- Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station

Recorded 20:00 August 3, 2015. Shanghai University- Vancouver Film School Campus. We have invited some sound recordists to submit some of their tracks to the Hear Shanghai project. This week we are featuring tracks by 希辰 a.k.a. SounDoer. http://www.soundoer.com

Hear Shanghai #37- SHVFS

December 15, 2018

Deity Microphones China sponsored my first 4 vlogs about field recording and also gave me some sweet mics to play around with in the meantime. Thanks Deity!

This was the first location of the first episode and after we filmed it, I felt that I could be better. Luckily the cameraman was still in town for one more day so I said I wanted to do it again but better.

We went back out to the same location and it seemed quite different. The water level was higher and the sky not as blue but still beautiful nonetheless.

In the vlog, I recorded one general soundscape of the water flowing into this small inlet. As I was walking and explaining about the recording I had just done, a sound caught my ear. I ignored it the first time but then it came back. It sounded like breathing. The man made jetty we were on had cracks and as the water of the Yangtze River slipped by, it created small waves which pushed the air in and out of these cracks.

It was the most beautiful thing I had heard on the island. The breathing sounded like sleeping in bed with a loved one and their breaths slowly come in and out, not constantly, but sensually erratic. Fast, slow, long, short, it was so human. I had never realized or ever recorded how nature, not just animals, could 'breathe' or be 'alive'. This connection between man and nature that is always the basis and goal of my work could not have been more succinctly expressed. It was such a profound moment for me. 

Recorded with Sonosax Minir82/ Sennheiser 8090 (ORTF)

Yangtze River Breathing

Recorded October 14, 2018

On any given Sunday, Luxun Park in Shanghai is a gathering place for everyone in the nearby residential areas. People come out to enjoy the weather, socialize, and exercise. You can hear hidden Saxophones tucked somewhere in the trees, KTV boxes with a flatscreen and an electric generator on a luggage trolley, several ballroom dance groups, and sometimes even the 'whippers'. Usually a group of men, the Whippers tote long, heavy chain-link whips with a piece of leather or plastic tied to the end that makes the 'crack'. The more experienced the Whipper, the longer and heavier the chain. Swinging these whips require alot of effort and so makes great exercise. 

On this day, there was a group of 5 -6 men that put on a little show for me. The leader had a really long chain and seemed like the the 'bad-ass' of the group he started whipping with a cigarette in his mouth. As the other men started to join, it was a whipping orchestra as each one whipped to his own tune. The amazing thing was that there was a point that they all started whipping in perfect unison. What an amazing day for recording that was.

Recorded with (2)DPA 4061 binaural, SD 302, and WM-6DC.

Luxun Park Whippers

Bivouac Recording is a sound label based in Hong Kong.
Bivouac Recording是一个录音品牌且提供录音服务的公司，致力于推进独立现场录音项目。

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