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REEL 86
EAST END SOUNDWALK April 30, 1973
1. SOUNDWALK STARTS, inside to outside 2'15"
2. " 21'30"
3. SOUNDWALK CONTINUES 23'05"
REEL 86 COMMENTARY
General Remarks: These sequences contain plenty of conversation explaining what the recordist is doing, etc. Note how recordist changes language style for different people. On the side streets, kids are active and perform for the microphones. Traffic ranges from heavy to sparse, sometimes competing with people but mostly dominating the scene in the heavy traffic passages.
Time of day: approx. 5 p.m. (see also: reel 87, take 6).
Route of Soundwalk:
This is the recordist's own neighbourhood .
1. Opens in recordist's kitchen, ticking clock, then walking downstairs.
0'45" walking outside, street chant fragment from kids.
1'40" "Are you taping again?", then a sample shriek for the microphones.
2'10" recordist freaks out, stops recording.
2. Opens again in recordist's kitchen, then walking downstairs and outside.
1'10" car starting.
1'15" footsteps.
1'25" kids ("smart-ass neighbourhood gremlins") dive-bomb the microphones.
1'45" clear footsteps.
*2'30" hand mower.
4'15" getting into heavier traffic (on Victoria St.).
7'15" ball against wire fence.
9'30" first voices -- kids on playground -- in 6 or 7 minutes.
10'00" strange voice sounds.
10'50" bouncing ball, footsteps.
*11'15" clear voices, "Is that on?" followed by some story telling, questions, others from older boys.
14'00" and more questions, this exchange continues to end of the take.
15'35" radio appears briefly.
18'25" clacking sticks for the microphones.
19'35" clapping, and other sounds for the microphones.
3. Opens with a song ("White Coral Bells") from some kids. Heavy traffic.
1'15" conversation about the job with young man, then about blind people.
2'15" the kids are back again, screaming for the microphones (note the Nagra's compression pumping away!).
*3'20" "Help, murder, police!" urban nursery rhyme (and more screams). Still heavy traffic.
8'15" tire squeal, short.
8'35" car horn.
10'30" "Want me to say something?" and conversation about the work. Recordist explains.
13'00" continue the walk, cars starting.
13'30" on a side street, relative calm.
14'20" car radio (briefly), followed by children's voices, slow moving vehicles later. Then faster moving vehicles past the microphones, voices continue and other neighbourhood sounds. An extended angry exchange between two boys continues to about 22'00"
21'25" footsteps in front of microphones.
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