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As we walk from the Knife-Edge sculpture
towards the Conservatory, we begin to hear
an airplane passing overhead. The dominant sound of the lookout area outside
of the Conservatory is that of the building's air vents, what R. Murray
Schafer refers to as the "bad breath" of buildings. Listen to how the airplane
sound decreases in pitch as the vent sound increases in amplitude, until
- as we approach the vent more closely - the falling glissando of the airplane
seems to melt into the vent's broad noise-band. |
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As we walk down towards the lookout area, away from the vent, its sound accompanies us, still fairly loud in relationship to other sounds, masking many of them. Finally, near the end of this excerpt, the sounds of passing footsteps emerge more clearly.
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We return to the lookout just as the sun is setting. Notice how many voices there are in this area now. Human voices and the sound of the Conservatory air-conditioning vents fill this soundscape.
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