KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Rain Drain at 2 AM

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1970.11.03

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

20 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 1970-11-03 | created

Description

A field recording of a rain drain, made at 2 in the morning on November 3, 1970 by Karlheinz Martens. Along with the sounds of what appears to be rain going down some sort of drain, culvert, or gutter is the sound of occasional musical accompaniment by some unidentified solo instrument. If you close your eyes you may be able to imagine yourself in some forlorn alleyway in a European city, standing in the rain, and listening to a street musician making halfhearted appeals to the occasional passer byes.

Genres

Field recordings

Musical Selections

[sound of a rain drain with occasional soft musical accompaniment, at 2 am, November 3, 1970] / Karlheinz Martens

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds
City sounds

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Martens, Karlheinz