field recordings

5 tracks recorded on June 3rd, 2024, in the morning

same subject recorded from various positions, about 40 m from the truck, at the Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) Olympic Stadium site

I will probably come back to clean up those tracks, levels, parts to remove if any, etc.  When I do I will keep the same file names but will remove the "Orig-Raw" suffix.

Siphon Truck at the Stadium (drone)

Ha Hekong sound bites

Bronze Heaven ?

= )

The picture was *not* taken at the church where those bells live,
somewhere entirely different, but in the same city ; )

recorded with a Zoom H4n, from inside the church's bell tower this time,
in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), on May 14, 2023, just before mass

This recording is of the same church as the one in the previous one.

Heaven's Bells 2

birds, birds, and more birds

recorded in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), on the 15th of May, 2023
around sunrise time

using a Zoom H4n

Exceptionally I used some high pass filter and some noise
reduction on this one, for the low hum of traffic and air conditioning,
and motorized vehicles passing in front of my apartment.

Early Risers

typical urban sounds in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal)

recorded on 2023/05/29 in the afternoon

Cheers : )

Heavy Machinery 01

Pure improvisation with 8¬string Electric guitar, EHX Superego+ and Ibanez AD 9.

Winter Is Coming

- a train passing nearby, about 5m from the microphones

Beyond the train and tracks there is water, the St-Laurent river, on the other side of which there is an amusement park, sometimes called fairground, on a small island.  This was Summer so the park was opened and active, you can hear roller coaster people screaming, as if echoing the train's voice at the end of the recording.

I got lucky on this one, I was riding my bike and I heard it, and was able to quickly setup my machine which I sometimes carry in my backpack exactly for this type of 

recorded in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), on August 20, 2022

using a Zoom H4n

Screaming Steel

5 files recorded on June 3rd, 2024

same subject recorded from various positions, about 40 m from the truck, at the Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) Olympic Stadium site

I will come back with more info.

Unfortunately the truck had left by the time I came back to take the picture,
so don't go scrutinizing the photo looking for it, it's not there, lol.

Siphon Truck at the Stadium - 5 (Raw)

recorded on June 3rd, 2024, in the morning,
in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal)

I will probably come back to clean it up, levels, parts to remove if any, etc.  When I do I will keep the same file name but will remove the "Raw" part.

Unfortunately the truck had left by the time I came back to take the picture,
so don't go scrutinizing the photo looking for it, it's not there, lol.

Siphon Truck at the Stad

Siphon Truck at the Stadium - 4 (Raw)

Siphon Truck at the Stadium - 1

Siphon Truck at the Stadium - 3 (Raw)

Siphon Truck at the Stadium 1

Siphon Truck at the Stadium - 1 (Raw)

Siphon Truck at the Stadium 2

Siphon Truck at the Stadium - 2 (Raw)

street work, closeup, rec device was 4 to 8 meters from the source

recorded on June 3rd of 2024,
in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), at the intersection of Pie-IX boulevard and Ontario street.

Pie-IX / Ontario 3 (Raw)

Pie-IX / Ontario 2 (Raw)

Pie-IX / Ontario 1 (Raw)

Sounds of air valves from a train, next to the white building, where we used to practice, with Bryan and Francis.

Recorded with a Zoom H4n, 44,1k Hz stereo.  The file is 16 bit wav format.  Nothing was done to the sound, except the short fade in and fade out.  It's raw audio.  If some level of compression was applied at all, it was the microphones themselves that did it.

Have fun with this.

Copyright: the Universe

Sputtering Air Valves (2013-07-17)

For all the tracks in this playlist, I was positioned about 15 meters from the port installations, next to my current--well, not really cause now I'm out of work, cause I don't know if you've heard but...--place of employment. That is part of why I can do all this in Soundcloud, cause I have some free time.  If I worked full time, I could only do about one fifth of what I do now in the same amount of time, the playlists essentially.

I have tried to keep the "peaks" out of those recordings, but a small number of short ones have slipped through my net.  I hope you will forgive my weakness, or lack of rigour (rigor).  Please feel free, and I encourage you to do so, to inform me if there are any malfunctions with these tracks, or incorrect information associated with them, like the "metadata" that is introduced when I ... forget it.  I'm sick of that stuff.

I hope these can be useful for people who want to make music with them.  Some where I hit something repeatedly, will probably have to be chopped into individual samples, to be used as more or less traditional samples for samplers.

May the good Gods and Godesses bless you.  ... You go ahead and decide which ones those are ; ).  Bisous

Port-de-Montréal - Undisturbed by me

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
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I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
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This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

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You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

Siphon Truck at the Stadium - 3 (Raw)

Ha Kékong