thesecretsongwithin

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This is an archive of field recordings, currently spanning eleven countries and eighteen cities worldwide. The project commenced in May 2006. It continues. We are interested in finding sounds of cities, of places, of people, how we locate ourselves in and through sound.

We are arranged by Location (recorded in) & Category (assigned) at the moment. Assignations may change, much as we do. Enjoy.

To play / download a selected sound click on the play / download button of the individual piece. If you want to hear a selected sound on the page you need to scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the pause button for the embedded player first otherwise you will hear both sounds at once. You may want to do this though in order to achieve a weird mashup effect. It's up to you.

Archive in process of being updated constantly. Please bear with us.

Munich

2007-04-11T22:58:00.000-07:00

Recorded live in Munich (Germany) July 2006

Munich Thunders

Munich goes Brazil!

Street violin

Street violin II

Santa Cruz

2007-04-11T17:49:00.003-07:00

Recorded live in Santa Cruz (California, USA) in February 2007

We made a visit to the fantabulous Central Branch Public Library, where branch manager, Barbara Snider, gave us a guided tour. Thanks Barbara! Listen in by clicking on the audio below:

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San Juan Bautista

2007-04-11T17:49:00.001-07:00

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The frogs go for broke during a spot of full-on rain. Recorded live in the rain in San Juan Bautista, CA, USA in February 2007

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Recorded live outside the chicken coop in San Juan Bautista, CA, in February 2007

Newcastle Upon Tyne

2007-04-11T17:48:00.003-07:00

Barcelona

2007-04-11T17:48:00.001-07:00

Recorded live in Barcelona August 2006

A Portuguese band play in a Barcelona street

Electric guitar on a Barcelona Street

San Francisco

2007-04-11T17:47:00.001-07:00

Poet Robin Coste Lewis reads at 'Writers with Drinks' at the Makeout Room, April 14th 2007

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Read-out for 'Justice in Oaxaca, Mexico' outside the Mexican Consulate (532 Folsom St, between 1st St. and 2nd St.) in San Francisco, which took place on Monday, March 26, from 12 noon. It featured: Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Blood on the Border; Larry Bogad, author of Electoral Guerrilla Theatre and a veteran of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army; Aryeh Shell, Herstories Project; Itinerant Poet Bill Evans; Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate of San Francisco and more . . .

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Aryeh Shell reads

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Poet Laureate of San Francisco, Jack Hirschman, reads a poem

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Bill Evans reads a poem

Rebecca Solnit, Larry Bogad *coming soon*, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, attorney John Viola, Ted Lewis *coming soon* of Global Exchange and more.

16th & Mission Street recordings. Recorded on a continuing basis Thursday nights from February 2007 onwards between 10pm-midnight, out on the street between 16th & Mission, next to the BART station entrance

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Thatch Baker plays to the crowd. We think this was his name, but we didn't get a chance to ask. Recorded live on the corner of 16th & Mission street, San Francisco on Thursday March 1st 2007

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Carson (words) & Cody (Beatbox on flute>. Recorded live on the corner of 16th & Mission Street, San Francisco, on March 8th 2007

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Double Bass, recorded live on the corner of 16th & Mission on March 15th in San Francisco

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Guinevere speaks a poem, recorded live on the corner of 16th & Mission on March 8th 2007, San Francisco

Golden Gate Park. Recorded live in Golden Gate park, San Francisco on March 10th 2007, on a very sunny, jazz kinda day

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Prague

2007-04-11T17:46:00.008-07:00

Recorded live in Prague in June 2006

A Czech train

A Czech train announcer

Dresden

2007-04-11T17:46:00.007-07:00

Windy Dresden

Berlin

2007-04-11T17:46:00.005-07:00

Recorded live in Berlin in June 2006, during the World Cup frenzy.

A German kettle on a stove in Berlin

Brazil vs. Croatia match, a crowd in a park go wild

Swedish football fans on a nightbus in Berlin

A Track by Berlin musician Dennis

A Track by Berlin musician Ichier

The bells of Berlin ring out

Paris

2007-04-11T17:46:00.003-07:00

Recorded live in Paris July 2006

Paris Thunders

Vienna

2007-04-11T17:46:00.001-07:00

Recorded live in Vienna in June/July 2006

The Sound of an Austrian ‘ooh’

Accordion in the Vienna Naschmarkt

London

2007-04-11T17:45:00.000-07:00

The sound of underwater. Under the water in Tooting Lido (London, UK). Recorded with an underwater microphone (obviously).

Underwater sound

Amsterdam

2007-04-11T17:40:00.004-07:00

Recorded live at 'Vurige Tonguen' Festival at Ruigoord in Amsterdam as well as the Landjuweel Festival at Ruigoord

A Dutch mic test

Erwin the Antistress Poet’s Belgian Baby at Ruigoord Poetry Festival, Amsterdam

Dutch frogs get mighty hot in a pond at Ruigoord poetry festival

Bagpipes at Landjuweel played by a member of the self-titled 'Fake Scottish McBastard Clan' on August 13th 2006

Banjoman at 4am playing in the 'Groovy Movie' tent (solar-powered) on August 13 at Landjuweel Festival 2006

York

2007-04-11T17:40:00.003-07:00

Norwich

2007-04-11T17:40:00.001-07:00

Antwerp

2007-04-11T17:39:00.000-07:00

Recorded live at the Hopsack cafe, Antwerp, Belgium on November 12 2006.

A poem called Family Room written and read in the original Japanese by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, with a Dutch translation read by Erwin the Antistresspoet.

A poem performed by Philip Meersman, of the sound and wordscapes experimental group Artiesten Collectif JA! (Belgium)

A sound poem performed by Peter Waugh, of Labyrinth poetry group (Vienna)

Budapest

2007-04-11T00:23:00.001-07:00

Recorded live in Budapest July 2006

An accordion player underground in the Budapest metro

A Budapest train announcement

Water and wind and a starry, starry, night at Lake Balaton

How an Hungarian bird talks to an Hungarian cat

An Hungarian train passes through

Budapest rain