sounds of everyday life

 

Minimally edited, sonic snapshots provide auditory glimpses of the sounds of places near and far, mundane and momentous, exotic and quotidian. See here to contribute your own recordings to DocumentaryWorks.


• Piano Rolls at Musee Mechanique, San Francisco:
    › Piano Roll Blues. Recorded by Wendy Adams King, October 2005.
    › I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby . Recorded by Wendy Adams King, October 2005.

Cable Cars in San Francisco. Recorded by Wendy Adams King, October 2005.

Watching Fish at the Georgia Aquarium. Recorded by Wendy Adams King in Atlanta, December 2005.

Boston Duck Tour. Recorded by Wendy Adams King, November 2005.

Salvation Army Parade. Recorded by Wendy Adams King in San Francisco, October 2005.

Tibetan bowl and wind chimes at Locus Voci in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Recording made by Rob Tow. Copyright Rob Tow, 1999. Used by permission.

Hummingbirds at feeder on front porch. Recorded by Kiane King in Strange Creek, West Virginia, July 2005.

Pilgrimage to Compostela. Recorded outside Notre Dame du Bon Secours, Brussels, Belgium, December 2000 by Cheyanne Vanderdonckt.

• New York City collection:
    › Canal Street. Recorded by Michael LeVan, July 2005.
    › Penn Station. Recorded by Michael LeVan, July 2005.

• Appalachian folk songs, sung by the Gibson "girls." Recorded by Wendy Adams King at Strange Creek, WV.
    › Groundhog
    › Birthday
    › Ol Dusty Miller

Weeki Wachee tour boat guide. Recorded by Elizabeth Fendrick at Weeki Wachee Springs, FL in June 2005. (click here for the visually implored)

• Street musician collection:
    › Port of Cozumel, before Hurricane Wilma (recorded by Wendy Adams King, September 2005)
    › Opera enthusiasts, Copely Place Mall, Boston (recorded by Wendy Adams King, November 2005)
    › Traditional, Chinatown, San Francisco (recorded by Wendy Adams King, October 2005)
    › Yankee Doodle, Chinatown, San Francisco (recorded by Wendy Adams King, October 2005)
    › Steet musician at Pier, San Francisco (recorded by Wendy Adams King, October 2005)
    › Wine, Wine, Wine, New Orleans (recorded by Floyd Turbonic, April 1992)
    › Caledonia, New Orleans (recorded by Floyd Turbonic, April 1992)
    › Ain't Gonna Marry Blues, New Orleans (recorded by Floyd Turbonic, April 1992)
    › Barcelona, Spain (recorded by Mark Neumann, January 2003)
    › Seattle I (recorded by Mark Neumann, November 2000)
    › Seattle II (recorded by Mark Neumann, November 2000)

Ham radio operator Mike Seguin of Burlington, VT on Mt. Washington. Recorded and edited by Floyd Turbonic on 3 July 2005. (click here for the visually implored)

After the big rain. Recorded by Michael LeVan in Tampa, FL in June 2005.

 

 

Last updated 15 May 2006