Earth Notes: Hanwell Hootie Ambient (2022-05)

Updated 2024-04-08.
Random samples of soundscape from a loud local music festival and just after. #festival #fieldRecording

This episode has no particular words from me, it's all ambience.

Some snatches of sound while people enjoy themselves post-plague in pubs and the open air, with music and beer and a bit of bhangra dancing. 60 years of Marshall, 10 years of Hootie...
676s "Hanwell Hootie 2022 ambient" (captions) Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • small lo-fi very low-bandwidth audio/opus mono clip 1144kB +
  2. • lo-fi low-bandwidth mono clip 3995kB ++
  3. • stereo clip 14839kB +++
  4. • hi-fi lossless audio/flac stereo clip 61479kB +++++
Transcript:
[Ambient sounds from the Hanwell Hootie in west London on a pleasant May evening.]

Show Notes

Recorded on the Zoom H1n, hand-held.

Each clip was normalised separately.

Other than start/end fade -in/-out, the clips are raw and in order.

Not all clips were used, especially right at the start before I realised that I had to turn the mic sensitivity down a long way as the first venue was so LOUD!

I had a couple of good-natured enquiries about what I was recording!