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REEL 85 [DAT C37]
MORLEY, ALBERTA Nov. 13, 1973
[0-tone][ID 16 44:13]
1. DIRECTIONS TO CAFE/STORE 0'35"
[ID 17 44:46]
2. IN CAFE/STORE 2'15"
[ID 18 47:00]
3. DIRECTIONS TO CEMENT PLANT 0'40"
[ID 19 47:54]
4. ENTERING BANFF NATIONAL PARK 0'30"
MINNIWANKA, ALBERTA
[false takes, 10"][ID 20 48:34]
5. WIND IN LODGEPOLE PINES 0'30"
[ID 21 49:01]
6. " " " " 16'50"
[0-tone][ID 22 1:05:53]
7. CHOPPING WOOD 14'00"
Nov. 14, 1973
[false take, 3"][ID 23 1:20:16]
8. RADIO SAMPLE, continued on reel 86 8'00"
REEL 85 COMMENTARY
1. Talking to woman, car motor turned off during conversation.2. Recordists were hoping for some native dialect here, but it didn't happen. Walking inside. Heavy hum from freezer, radio in background, cash register. People's voices submerged in this lo-fi ambience. Squeaky door opened and closed throughout.
3. Talking to man, with car motor off. Recordists never got to plant.
4. Checking in with the attendant. "One dollar, please." Can't hear the National Park!
5/6. Lots of disturbances in these takes, wind on microphones. This is at Sid Marty's place. His book of poems Headwaters comes from here and the Banff area. The wind blows in tall slender Lodgepole Pines. The sound is quite flat in quality, smooth
broadband, making very long wave patterns as wind fluctuates in strength. Some foreground rustle.
7. Super clear ambience. Take begins in silence. Then footsteps in the snow to woodpile. Can hear Sid's breathing while chopping wood, even a whispered curse as axe falls wrong way. The trees around reverberate the sound of chopping. At 9'30" Sid goes back inside house, talking as he enters. Recordist remains outside in this quietness. Good take.
8. Again fair amount of static and most stations sound far away.
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