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Standing on my back porch in a thunderstorm, recording the rain and alley noises.

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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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