KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Man Snoring and Trains Moving

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1983.XX.XX.01

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

15 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

Two ambient recordings made by David Brown in the Summer of 1983. This first recording is of a person, identified as “George”, snoring, and can be quite disturbing at times to listen to. The second clip was made in the Burlington Northern freight train yard in Minneapolis and has some excellently evocative railroad sounds.

Genres

Field recordings

Musical Selections

[George snoring] (7:00) / David Brown -- [Freight trains, Burlington Northern Yards, Minneapolis, MN] (7:39) / David Brown

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds
Snoring
Railroad sounds

Acknowledgment

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

Related place

Minneapolis (Minn.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Brown, David