Archive for the ‘Chicago audio map’ Category
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Sitting on the corner in front of Sears. Plains, trains, and automobiles! You can hear the el, the O’Hare flightpath, some cars of course, a walker, and you can just hear a fly land on the microphone at about 58sec (or -0:12 if it’s counting down).
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I’ve decided to take a different approach with the Chicago audio map. While I like the ideal of recording whole streets, all those recordings began sounding the same, with cars at the beginning and end of blocks, various other doppler effects, the whup-whup of walking for 3-4 minutes. So I’m sitting down and recording one still minute or so of the audio at places in which I find myself. I think it well lead to some more interesting distinctions between the recordings.
I’m kicking off this “still” set with a street festival in Roscoe Village.
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Something a little different: the alley next to Damen, and some sounds of winter. I wasn’t sure how to notate a Chicago alley, so I’m calling it the west 2020 alley. Features gate opening and closing, walking on and crunching ice/snow, kicking around other litter in the alley, some guy vacuuming his Mustang or something, an airplane overhead, some men at work near the end, and a big CTA bus at the very end. And of course the ubiquitous whup-whup of walking, cars in the distance, and wind noise.
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Sometimes I think these street recordings are all just of cars whizzing by, but the more I listen to them, the more I hear the subtleties. Like this one going from Augusta to Chicago Ave, the car noise subsides dramatically at the beginning, then picks up at the end as I approach Chicago Ave. And there’s this machine drone in the background that I don’t remember hearing.
Really these are what you hear walking down the street in Chicago. We just tend to tune some noises out after a while, and those noises sound especially odd while sitting in an office chair.
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