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This is a collection of uncut field recordings, mostly done with a Zoom H4N handheld recorder. They are in stereo.
This collection is mainly comprised of ambient sounds and people walking. You will find staircases, rooms and corridors, as well as birds and trains. All these recordings are provided in the OGG Vorbis audio format. This can be played on every operating system, both on desktop computers and mobile devices. Losslessly compressed versions are available. If you need these please ask Jeanette
List of available recordings
"Jeanny's Hit, version 1.0" (35.71MB) Jeanny's Hits is a collection of electronic drum samples, recorded from analogue and hybrid digital hardware synthesizers and rendered with Csound. Hardware includes the Behringer RD-8 (analogue Roland TR-808 clone), semi-modular Behringer Neutron and Arturia MiniBrute 2S and the Dave Smith Instruments (Sequential Circuits) Prophet-12. The samples cover a good range of genres and they pack a punch.
"Walking along village road (winter evening)" (6.45MB) Walking along the main village road on a winter's evening, around 7 or 8pm. Snow and melting snow is on the ground. Recorded around Christmas.
"Walking along village roads (summer evening)" (12.15MB) Walking through a viallage around 7pm the evening before midsummer's eve.
"Village street (late summer)" (3.73MB) Walking along a village road on a late summer morning.
"Another walk through a uni corridor, followed by stairs" (10.22MB) Climbing stairs in the big entrance hall to the 800-900 seat auditorium, walk through a corridor connecting to the main building and straight into a stairwell, going down.
"Walk through uni corridor" (2.11MB) Walk through one corridor at university. Airconditioning is audible.
"Walk out of entrance hall" (3.74MB) Cross front hall of the university's audimax, pass through vestibule and step out.
"Village street (late spring" (3.07MB) Village road recorded in late spring. Intermittent wind, motorway audible in the distance.
"Train waiting and leaving (wiinter)" (4.30MB) A train waiting at a railway station, then leaving. People passing by. Recorded around Christmas, rainy weather.
"Toilet visit" (1.71MB) A visit to the toilet, recorded in a private bathroom.
"Birds morning chorus (summer)" (5.86MB) Morning chorus of the birds, recorded at 4:30am on midsummer's eve, in a cobs (small clump of trees). The motorway is audible in the distance.
"Long staircase up" (4.16MB) Again the long university staircase, this time going up.
"Long staircase down" (14.93MB) This is going down the eight and a half storey staircase again, but interrupted by walking through a corridor.
"Long staircase down" (2.61MB) The eight and a half staircase at university down.
"Staircase down and through corridor" (10.32MB) A big eight and a half storey staircase down, at level five one more stairwell joins this one and lower down one more. This is at a university.
"Small staircase up" (491.71KB) Six flat appartment house, two flats to each storey, tiled floors, plastered walls and big windows to the front.
"Small staircase down" (531.96KB) Going down a six flat appartment house, two flats to each storey. Tiled floor, plastered walls and big windows to the front.
"Slowly filling auditorium" (3.18MB) The audimax slowly filling, half an hour before the next lecture. Recorded from a seat in the front row.
"Yet more rain on attic window" (905.70KB) Yet more rain dripping on the same attic window.
"More rain on attic window" (1.40MB) Rain on the same attic window.
"Rain dropping on attic window" (1.23MB) Moderate to heavy rain drippig on an attic window.
"Railway station (winter)" (2.86MB) A train arrives at a small railway station in winter. Announcement and rain dripping from the roof.
"People leaving auditorium" (1.12MB) People leaving a big (800 or 900 seat) auditorium. The microphone is near the exit door into the front hall, which has two storeys, a big glas front and smooth concrete floors and walls. It was recorded in winter.
"Old Mercedes C180 from garage onto road" (653.15KB) An old Mercedes C180 starting in the garage and making its way onto a quiet road. Midsummer's eve, around 11am.
"Motor scooter passing by (summer)" (500.41KB) A motor scooter passing by on a village road at 5am on midsummer's eve.
"Moderately full auditorium" (4.61MB) A moderately full big auditorium, a few minutes before the next lecture starts.
"Living room walkthrough" (748.41KB) Entering the living room through one door - hollow wood with glas panel - and walking around on the laminate floor.
"Into the boiler room" (2.38MB) Walking through the short corridor, down two steps and into a house's boiler room. It's summer, so nothing much is happening.
"Entering house and then flat" (757.60KB) Entering the six flat apparment house, going up the stairs and then entering a flat. The time is midsummer around 9 or 10 am.
"Building a house-" (3.66MB) < Recording of a family home building site from an upstairs window, directly opposite.
"Full morning bathroom routine" (13.74MB) Ths includes brushing teeth, taking a shower and toweling.
"Full circuit through the uni corridors" (9.51MB) Walking once around the uni through the corridors connected by stairwells.
"Entering auditorium front room" (3.98MB) Entering the same front room of the audimax again.
"Entering audimax front room" (3.13MB) Walking from the outside, through the vestibule into the front hall of the 600 seat auditorium. Tiled floor, partially two storeys high, many big windows on the outer walls and brick on the inner walls.
"Walking through a long corridor" (5.79MB) This is a recording of walking through several corridors, connected by stairwells at a university.
"Cemetary gate open and close" (256.42KB) Opening and closing the gate on a small village cemetary. A B or C road is quite close. It was recorded on a summer morning.
"Cars passing (winter)" (978.94KB) Cars passing, on a suburban road, around Christmas, melting snows on the ground.
"Cars passing, bus arriving (winter)" (3.10MB) Cars passing, on a suburban road around Christmas. Melting snow on the ground.
"Cars passing on a B or C road" (1.46MB) Recorded from immediately beside a B or C road, allowed velocity about 80 km/h. The recording was done about 6 or 7am in the morning on a summer's day.
"Ride on a bus" (7.64MB) About ten minutes on a bus, with some talking in the beginning. Recorded around 6pm going from town to the suburbs and villages.
"Birds from balcony (summer)" (4.67MB) Recorded mid morning (around 10am) on midsummer's eve. The balcony looks onto the back garden, behind that a small street and another lawn with trees.
"Birds and street after rain" (3.33MB) Birds recorded from an upstairs window after a good shower. There's a lot of distant street noise on this recording.
"Audimax (uni auditorium) moderately full" (3.61MB) This is a recording from the front row of a moderately full auditorium maximum (600 seats).