From the content of my last entry you can probably guess why I am slightly behind on my On Sound Every Day project. Fortunately I have sounds for the missing days and will be adding them soon.
A combination of time spent during the holidays on family visits, parties, keyboard desk building, and studio reorganization has left me trying to catch up on several things including a massive pile of laundry. This gave me an excuse to record my old squeaky clothes drier.
Squeaky Drier
During a recent family dinner at my brother’s house I was innocently admiring the ornaments in his home when came across a collection of musical snow globes. I could not resist winding up these devices for some concurrent chaotic music box sound. Fortunately I had my PCM-D50 on hand, so while no one was looking I gathered the snow globes and tried to find a quiet place in the house to make a recording. With the family event fully underway, this was not an easy proposition, but after wandering around for a few minutes I settled on recording them in the bathroom. Despite an odd look from my brother’s wife as I exited the bathroom the recording went well.
Three Snow Globes
On December 1, 2009 I posted a sound that was a composition including audio recordings from nine forms transportation all captured in one day. The post was accordingly called Nine Forms of Transportation in One Day. I also recorded some ambiance while waiting for the light rail in downtown Minneapolis. At the Nicollet Mall and Fifth Street LRT platform there is strange device that when triggered by a bell plays a comedic choral piece about the state of Minnesota. I realized far too late after triggering this musical installation that doing so was clearly a violation of light rail transit station etiquette.
Minnesota Song
I made a recording of this piercing high powered hand dryer in the bathroom at a local pub. My friend Joe helped by going through the hand drying motions as I held the PCM-D50 recorder to capture this beautifully obnoxious high frequency noise.
High Powerd Hand Dryer
I recorded this freight train during a winter bike ride with a group of friends recently. We rode through deep snow, on frozen lakes, head first into snowbanks and all over the place.
My friends waited patiently while I carefully held the recorder and gestured to them to keep quiet while making the recording. Although, this train made enough noise to drown out any other audible sounds.
Winter Freight