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san francisco bay ( 1998 - 2001 ) Field recordings made around San Francisco. Source sound for Maritime Suite. |
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| año nuevo | 1.3 MB | Elephant seals and the humans gawking at them at Año Nuevo State Reserve. |
| atm | 570 KB | The last of my cash being withdrawn to pay for equipment to bring you these sounds in the convenience of your cubicle. |
| cable car | 700 KB | A cable car from downtown. The chain rattling after it departs is from the buried cableworks that pull the cars. |
| cafe | 620 KB | Regulars holding forth at a San Francisco cafe. Conversations involve the phrase "dot com" less frequently these days. |
| caltrain | 700 KB |
The cacaphony at a train crossing at the bottom of Potrero Hill. |
| cancun | 700 KB | My favorite vegetarian black bean and cilantro burrito, birthed by the experts at Taqueria Cancun in the Mission (the 19th Street location, of course). |
| carlos dicarlos | 2.4 MB | Mission busking regular and former Tom Waits sideman Carlos DiCarlos playing Robert Johnson. |
| construction | 710 KB | Market Street construction, as heard from a vast concrete plaza enclosed across the street. |
| embarcadero | 1.2 MB | Seagulls, forklifts, and a helicopter on San Francisco's developed downtown waterfront. |
| final call | 250 KB | For the ferry to Larkspur. |
| fog horns | 1.1 MB | As recorded from a nearby hilltop at moonset, around 5 AM. |
| fountain | 950 KB | Exploring a downtown fountain. |
| goat hall | 710 KB | Pausing beneath the open windows of a nearby community space. A class ... but for what?. |
| la rondolla | 940 KB | Merrymakers making merry in a popular Mexican restaurant and bar on Valencia Street. |
| marina ambiance | 940 KB | Sitting amid the berthed boats at San Francisco's marina. |
| muni brakes | 150 KB | As heard by terrified bikers and pedestrians. Muni is a local bus and rail system. |
| musee accordian | 700 KB | A player accordian, at the wonderful Musée Mechanique. |
| musee barbershop | 1.3 MB | An ancient animatronic barbershop quartet, and then a raunchy player piano, at the Musée Mechanique. |
| musee laughing sal | 1.3 MB | Laughing Sal, the outsized, wild-eyed (ani)matron who has terrorized children at the Musée Mechanique for generations. |
| obscura | 1.4 MB | Ambiance from within the endangered Camera Obscura above Seal Rock. Mostly the tape that sets the mood in the dark room. |
| playground | 970 KB | Recess at a nearby elementary school. |
| potrero soccer match | 700 KB | A local well-attended soccer match, from the sidelines, at the field near 16th and Potrero. |
| preacher | 700 KB | A street preacher holding forth on the corner of 16th and Mission, the heart of the north Mission. |
| protest | 1.1 MB | I believe this was an anti-INS protest passing by. The bells are from the Mission's ubiquitous ice cream carts. |
| scaring gulls | 700 KB | Disturbing the dozens of seagulls on the docks at San Francisco's marina. |
| shorebreak | 700 KB | At my favorite nude beach, a mere twenty minutes from the city. |
| sidewalk dining | 700 KB | The clatter from one of the city's many chic eateries. |
| skaters | 700 KB | Such acrobatics make me feel sedentary, old, and unfashionable. Which I am. |
| thunderstorm | 1.4 MB | It was a dark and stormy night. |
| transformer | 1.3 MB | The mysterious and intense hum from an equipment building near the Caltrain station. |
| typing | 700 KB | What I do, day in and day out, both vocationally and avocationally. People say that I am a fast typist. |