Category Archives: Field Recording

Field Recording 5
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Subway S Train waiting area at 42nd St
A man is playing the Pan Flute on the other side of the area, while people mull around, conversing. In the background, you can hear trains entering/leaving the station, echoing on the tracks. At the end of the clip, an automated voice announces the next train to Grand Central will arrive on track 1 in two minutes.

 

Field Recording #5
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Identify the location of the clip – This recording is taken from the floor just inside the door to my dorm room with the microphone facing under the door toward the staircase and hallway.

Identify the sounds heard in the clip – What is recreated in this recording is a series of sounds I have developed quite an awareness for in the last few months. This is the sound that I hear through my door whenever my room-mate comes home. It always baffles me that I can pick up of the tiny differences in his style of walking that I always know if it is him coming down the hallway as opposed to any of my multitude of neighbors. In this sound clip you initially can hear me open the door and leave my room so that I can recreate this moment. Next you can faintly hear me grab the door knob and swing the door open from the stair well there is a very subtle and extremely high frequency noise of the door creaking. I pull the door open and turn down the hallway toward my room. I was careful in the recording to not pick my feet up when I walked as that is generally what I hear when my roommate is coming down the hall. Next thing you can hear is me grabbing my lanyard with keys and pushing it into the key slot of my door and missing a few times. Right after this you can hear the key go into the hole and then the door swing open and the door knob twists back into place and the door shuts.

 

Field Recording 4
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Identify the location:
On a train going to Penn Station.

Identify the sounds:
I know I’ve already done a train post of two girls having an interesting conversation; however, the squeaking of the train car was too good for me to pass up recording.
The squeaky car dominates the recording, the sound seeming to be crescendoing towards the end of the recording, and at one point you can even hear what sounds like the train car, itself, shaking.  but you can also hear what sounds like a young boy moaning (“Oh, man,”), and a plain going overhead.  You can feel the train shaking just by hearing it.