Name: Shallow by Brian Combe
Duration: 3 min 2 s
Description: There is a thumping silence, and the light of the one lamp across the wet tiled floor seems conscious that it will illuminate this and many other atrocities, just as it will go on shining through days and months of sudden speechless lusts, and all the intervening hours of silent emptiness.

This recording was made in response to a prompt from La Meme Young as part of the LMY Patrons Monthly Project #1, and was also submitted as part of the Presque Tout project. 

Montreal (QC) - April 7, 2021, 3:54pm
Alleys are a defining feature of urban life in Montreal, and during the pandemic I've become especially sensitive to the gradual changes that take place in the alley behind my apartment building, which I watch from my balcony. Last summer, I noticed a Palestinian woman would often stop to pluck a few grape leaves from the vine growing on a neighbor's fence. The activities of the local squirrels and cats became daily entertainment. But the most dominant sound, at least when the weather is nice, is the boombox of the old man who lives across the alley. Forget about the groundhog; once this guy appears, winter is over. And once he stops wearing his shirt, you know it's summer. It was about 15 °C the day of this recording, almost 10 degrees higher than average, so I cracked open the window and made this recording. The man across the alley always plays awesome music, so I’m glad I captured some of that vibe, which also attests to the diversity of this neighborhood, which was built in the 1950s and has always had one of the highest percentages of foreign-born population anywhere in Canada. 

The first thing I hear is common bird song, probably sparrows.  The steady hum of automobiles on a nearby highway ebbs and flows on the edge of perception. A lighter flicks, and the door clicks shut. The clinks and clacs of kitchen sounds are faintly audible. Suddenly a radio is turned on, a hypnotic bassline and hand drum rhythm vamping while some sort of Middle Eastern horn solos energetically. The engine of a plane overhead is loud enough to be clearly heard; we’re right in the flight path of the airport. The song continues on for a while before changing, as vocals enter in a language I can’t recognize. Greek maybe, but the melismatic singing sounds more Arabic or Turkish. More kitchen noises become apparent, perhaps the clearing of plates. As the ninth minute is ending, a large automobile passes on the far side of the street. The bird song begins to increase in density, almost as if responding to the horn and vocalist which have increased in tempo. Some loud seagulls become audible towards the end of the recording, first screeching in the distance but coming closer, almost right overhead.  The gull reappears after a while, maybe it is circling, no longer shrieking but still crying out in almost regular intervals, moving further away. The birds pick up again. The door opens, and the recording fades out.

Montreal alleyway on the first nice afternoon of spring

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There is a thumping silence, and the light of the one lamp across the wet tiled floor seems conscious that it will illuminate this and many other atrocities, just as it will go on shining through days and months of sudden speechless lusts, and all the intervening hours of silent emptiness.

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