A world tour of bedrooms
Oct. 28th, 2005 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusThe Window Standpoint Series is one of those very simple ideas that, when made into a series with a standard format, becomes curiously intriguing. A bit like David Crawford's Stop Motion Studies, Window Standpoint makes watching not-much-at-all feel like something almost-too-much.
Various people from various places in the world have taken a 600 pixel-wide photograph of the view from their window, and supplied a four minute mp3 of the ambient sound at the place where the photo was taken. You look at the photo while listening to the sound. That's it! Yet it's fascinating, and as you click through the offerings (anyone can contribute) you can imagine you're on a very intimate, domestic and relaxing world tour. A world tour of bedrooms! (Art gossip: one of the pieces here is taken in the bedroom of an ex-lover of mine, but I'm not going to say which one. I'll give you a clue, though: it isn't Scanner.)
Since they don't have a Berlin one, I thought I'd make my own version here. This is the view from my living room window at 10.30 this morning. I was slightly disappointed a tram didn't go past during the four minutes I captured audio, because that's a very characteristic sound of this street. Oh, and since LiveJournal prohibits the embedding of audio files, you'll have to open the mp3 below in a new window, then throw it into the background so that you can listen to it while gazing at the autumnal scene through my window. (By the way, the clatter towards the end of the recording is my rabbit Baker knocking something over. That's his straw you can see on the balcony.)
Ambience (4.3 mb stereo 160kbps mp3 file, 4 mins)
Various people from various places in the world have taken a 600 pixel-wide photograph of the view from their window, and supplied a four minute mp3 of the ambient sound at the place where the photo was taken. You look at the photo while listening to the sound. That's it! Yet it's fascinating, and as you click through the offerings (anyone can contribute) you can imagine you're on a very intimate, domestic and relaxing world tour. A world tour of bedrooms! (Art gossip: one of the pieces here is taken in the bedroom of an ex-lover of mine, but I'm not going to say which one. I'll give you a clue, though: it isn't Scanner.)
Since they don't have a Berlin one, I thought I'd make my own version here. This is the view from my living room window at 10.30 this morning. I was slightly disappointed a tram didn't go past during the four minutes I captured audio, because that's a very characteristic sound of this street. Oh, and since LiveJournal prohibits the embedding of audio files, you'll have to open the mp3 below in a new window, then throw it into the background so that you can listen to it while gazing at the autumnal scene through my window. (By the way, the clatter towards the end of the recording is my rabbit Baker knocking something over. That's his straw you can see on the balcony.)
Ambience (4.3 mb stereo 160kbps mp3 file, 4 mins)
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Date: 2005-10-28 12:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-28 12:54 pm (UTC)Brussels and Ecuador supply 'an interesting third'.
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Date: 2005-10-28 01:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-10-28 03:05 pm (UTC)Ambience As Nutritional Necessity
Date: 2005-10-28 02:04 pm (UTC)Ants
Apples
Apricot Tree
Arrogants
AVIN Petrol Station
Baker Boy
Bamboo Bar
B. B. Beach
Blue Ocean Restaurant
Boss Classic Ice Cream
Calamari
Caffe Greco
Coach Radio
Corner of Death
Cousin D'Olivier
Cigarette Kiosk
Crazy Bird
Crazy Paving
Cockerel
Donny Pig-Dog
Dorian
Epirus
Festival
Firefly Alley
First-Aid Street
Flip-Flops
Foxes
Gaston
George Chakiris Hair-Do
General Toyrist Office
German Restaurant
German Horse-Taunter
Germans
Goat Island
Goats
Granny Chair
Greek Sausage
Greek Radio
Gyros
Horse
Hotel Montenegro
Hotel Mourtemeno
Italian Restaurant
Illy Coffee
Jesus With A Hard-On
King Herod's Castle
Krispies
Lacta
Lamb
Lavazza Crema e Gusto
Lays
Lemon Tree
Li-Lo
Lizards
Mary
Megapopolis
Megalamanios
Mosquitoes
Neilsons
Old Man
Olive Oil
Olivier
Olympic
Onion Restaurant
Ouzo
Parga
Parrot
Peter Stuyvesant
Police Station
Pussy Beach
Sarong
School
Scooter
Scotsmen
Shrine
Souvlaki
Snake
Spikey Stones
Spikes
Stavro
Steak House
Sunset
Supermarket
Sun Tan Potion
Swallows
Tarmacadam
Taverna
Tortoise
Town Beach
Unfinished Building
Unfinished Fountain
Wegetables
Zavia Beach
Audiophagia:
Date: 2005-10-28 03:02 pm (UTC)Re: Audiophagia:
Date: 2005-10-28 03:16 pm (UTC)Re: Ambience As Nutritional Necessity
Date: 2005-10-29 06:10 am (UTC)