KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Pentecostal Singers, Drumming Circle, and Union Square, San Francisco

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1970.08.16.02

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

38 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 1970-08-16 | created

Description

Ambient field recordings made in San Francisco and Berkeley California on August 16, 1970. First heard are a group of Pentecostal singers performing in Union Square in San Francisco. This is followed by the sounds of a drum circle in Sproul Plaza on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley. The last clip is of general street noise, also recorded in Union Square.

Genres

Field recordings

Musical Selections

Pentecostal singers, Union Square, San Francisco, Aug. 16, 1970] (8:15) / Richard Friedman and/or Denny Smithson -- [drummers at Sproul Plaza, U. C. Berkeley, Aug. 16, 1970] (10:36) / Richard Friedman and/or Denny Smithson -- [Union Square, San Francisco, Aug. 16, 1970] (18:17) / Richard Friedman and/or Denny Smithson

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds
Songs (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble
Percussion ensembles
Drum circles
City sounds

Related places

San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Friedman, Richard
Smithson, Denny