Soundseeing in Lively
July 10th, 2008 No Comments
Here’s a field recording from my first visit to Lively, Google’s Second Life style virtual environment. I picked a random room and ended up at the island pictured above.
Sounds can be streamed to objects in the environment from elsewhere on the ‘Net. I’m not sure if this audio comprises a single stream or sound from a number of sources (or if the Lively client was functioning correctly, for that matter):
Download: lively_wtf.mp3 (3.82 MB)
Posted in: General Field Recording
Crewe Percussion
August 22nd, 2007 No Comments
These people were making some noise in Crewe’s town centre a couple of days ago. Here’s some audio:
Download: r09_percussion.mp3 (4.35 MB)
En route I also recorded some sound on board a train pulling out of a station and getting up to speed. At the start of the recording is the sound of another train on an adjacent track:
Download: r09_train.mp3 (4.57 MB)
Posted in: Field Recording
Birdsong
July 19th, 2007 No Comments
The other day I happened to be awake as the Sun was rising so I took the opportunity to record the sound of the local wildlife from my window.
I guess bird sounds are kind of a cliché with regard to field recordings, but maybe it’s still a useful sample to someone.
Download: r09_birdsong.mp3 (6.86 MB)
Posted in: Samples Field Recording
Akihabara Sounds (part 2)
July 12th, 2007 No Comments
Here’s some more audio and pictures from my time in Akihabara, featuring some short clips of a few performers that happened to be singing in the street at the time, along with a few related YouTube links.
The Akiba music scene is kind of interesting - although at the moment it’s not particularly accessible to someone who speaks no Japanese and lives on the other side of the planet, such as myself.
I was meandering through the bystanders whilst recording, so the stereo image in some parts of my audio is a bit random.
Posted in: Field Recording
Akihabara Sounds (part 1)
June 5th, 2007 3 Comments
I was in Tokyo during Golden Week, so took the opportunity to try and capture some of the ambience of Akihabara while I was there.
Below are a few snippets of audio (in 256kbps MP3 format), also you can click the images for larger versions.
Posted in: Field Recording