Some thoughts on Beijing:
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And on Shanghai:
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You’ve seen this already, but here’s my photos:
I’d suggest considering a trip to Hangzhou from Shanghai (1 hour ish by busy, efficient, cheapish train) for the day, or stay over. It has a pretty lake. And apparently the trips to the tea growing areas are a nice day out.
I love how these read like some sort of miniature poetry. Maybe one day I’ll upload some of the recordings.
disk 4 2005-07-04 12_44.wav - supermarket 6.8 Mb 2005-07-04 12_44(1).wav - supermarket talking in background 11.7 Mb 2005-07-04 13_16.wav - squacking bird, too windy 3.1 MB 19s 2005-07-04 13_16(1).wav - quiet a few birds 22.1 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 13_20.wav - cleaning up sounds 14.4 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 14_23.wav - bbq little wind at start 22.2 Mb *** good for radio (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 14_25.wav - clearing sticks train in the middle 66.6 Mb * really high pitched sounds 2005-07-04 17_21.wav - town and country 19.2 Mb 2005-07-04 17_58(1).wav - windmill and laughing *** good for radio 2005-07-04 18_01.wav - cars and windmills (a touch of wind) 23.1 Mb ** bit windy, maybe ok 2005-07-04 18_37.wav - rustling birds wind at end 8.3 Mb windy 2005-07-04 18_39.wav - flies, cars, rumble 13.2 Mb *** good for radio (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 19_38(1).wav - talk, fireworks, some wind in middle 20.4 Mb *** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 20_11.wav - klang klang wind at start and end 17.5 Mb windy 2005-07-04 20_13.wav - drips and wind mill 11.2 Mb ** make into loop cut before beeps at end 2005-07-04 20_57.wav - mdstartup noise, long approach car, some birds 18.8 Mb windy 2005-07-04 21_10(1).wav - v quiet. metal tinking. birds. cow at end pinto canyon road 18.4 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 21_14.wav - cows, birds insect, stone throwing 31.3 Mb *** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 21_38.wav - bad sound in car, car door, after dusk at pinto canyon, cars passing 52 MB 5m10s *** edit down start 2005-07-04 22_23.wav - town and country after dark, train passing 27.7MB 2m45s 2005-07-05 06_51.wav - windy then quiet then windy luna at the arroyo, dogs and roosters, distant highway 53.9MB 5m21s 2005-07-05 06_59.wav - amber at luna on the last morning, birdies chirping, roosters 25.3MB 2m31s wind 2005-07-05 07_26.wav - Ben at luna on the last morning, birdies, dogs, roosters, crickets 32.2MB 3m12s *** (speaking at very end) radio too 2005-07-05 7_37.wav - Burros and pissing and and crickets and a truck at luna 58.7MB 5m49s *** (speaking at very end) radio too 2005-07-05 9_11.wav - footsteps and birds, beautiful, quiet metal banging 14.7MB 1m28s ** wind through 2005-07-05 9_13.wav - good cars passing rockshop, quiet, 14.2MB 1m25s ** edit off start 2005-07-05 9_14.wav - GOOD TRUCK (topped out) 11.8MB 1m11s 2005-07-05 9_16.wav - seven minutes of perfection, am at rockshop 73.6MB 7m18s **** fade in and out 2005-07-05 9_23.wav - one minute of perfection, am at rockshop ** a little wind 2005-07-05 9_32.wav - truck at rockshop 9.2MB 55s 2005-07-05 9_57.wav - Good! train tracks by the drug blimp 54.8MB 5m25s 2005-07-05 11_54.wav - annoying mexican radio broadcast 45.7MB 4m32s disk 3 2005-09-13 19_01.wav - TALKING the fear is that the train was going away 13.7MB 1m22s 2005-09-13 19_02.wav - TALKING I don't hear anything. 1m22s 2005-09-13 19_02(1).wav - TALKING and cars 7m17s 2005-09-13 19_02(2).wav - drunk and under the shirt, beer bottles 5m07s 2005-09-13 19_03.wav - nowheresville 18s 2005-09-13 19_03(1).wav - redford dog story 1m48s 2005-09-13 19_03(2).wav - junk 02s 2005-09-13 19_03(3).wav - blather 1m45s 2005-09-13 19_04.wav - this is the train, shh 5m56s 2005-09-13 19_04(1).wav - crickets, cars, listening from trestle, some wind, scratchy 5m45s disk 2 2005-07-03 13_31.wav - judd 2m09s 2005-07-03 13_52.wav - footsteps, crunching at chinati, wind ~2m *** radio cut wind 2005-07-03 14_29.wav - inside artillery shed at chinati 1m53s *** radio cut talkk at very end 2005-07-03 14_35.wav - inside artillery, joey speaking 21s 2005-07-03 15_35.wav - what are you recording? crap 1m30s 2005-07-03 15_57.wav - boring 1m24s 2005-07-03 16_07.wav - joey braiding hair 1m07s 2005-07-03 19_24.wav - rays are supermarket 1m28s 2005-07-03 21_54.wav - wind 28s 2005-07-03 22_17.wav - 3m of crickets, then rest yapping 7m14s 2005-07-03 22_30.wav - loud, boring crickets with wind 49s 2005-07-03 22_30(1).wav - loud crickets and cars under trestle 2m20s 2005-07-03 22_43.wav - more crickets and cars under trestle 3m20s 2005-07-03 23_18.wav - this is the train from ben's mic 5m43s 2005-07-03 23_44.wav - crickets and cars again (plus one dooley) and some wind 1m14s 2005-07-03 23_45.wav - crickets, crickets and a car 1m23s 2005-07-04 00_08.wav - mumbling at the marfa lights and a truck or two 3m26s 2005-07-04 00_27.wav - luna crickets, foosteps and Lalito's engine 12m45s disk 1 2005-09-13 18_22(1).wav - wmbr 8s 2005-09-13 18_22(1).wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23.wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23(1).wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23(2).wav - rockshop rustling not so crappy but crappy 2005-09-13 18_23(3).wav - testing rockshop 15s 2005-09-13 18_23(4).wav - birdies and cars ar rockshop; some wind but not bad especially at the end, train horn in distance 5m20s 2005-09-13 18_24.wav - wind 8s 2005-09-13 18_24(1).wav - lots of wind and drops of rain on tin and rustling, cars 1m27s 2005-09-13 18_24(2).wav - wind. metal. 2005-09-13 18_26.wav - nothing 2005-09-13 18_26(1).wav - rain and thunder. nice a bit short 2005-09-13 18_26(2).wav - rain and thunder. 2005-09-13 18_26(3).wav - thunder and rain. 2005-09-13 18_26(4).wav - wind. birds. laughing. "hello" 2005-09-13 18_26(5).wav - rustle rustle. wind. 2005-09-13 18_27.wav - wind and rustle. then quiet rooster. then more wind. 2005-09-13 18_27(1).wav - boring. 2005-09-13 18_27(2).wav - trying to record the train. *** radio 2005-09-13 18_27(3).wav - glitch 2005-09-13 18_27(4).wav - train horn bad wind in middle. 2005-09-13 18_27(5).wav - rustle. late night fire talking. 2005-09-13 18_28.wav - aroya. wind and mic knocking. 2005-09-13 18_28(1).wav - long windy walk through aroyo 2005-09-13 18_29.wav - frogs and crickets 20s of good then windy 2005-09-13 18_29(1).wav - slow fade in and out. crickets and aroyo 2005-09-13 18_30.wav - 2005-09-13 18_30(1).wav - 2005-09-13 18_30(2).wav - rock shop birds short wind: 2005-07-04 12_44(1).wav 2005-07-04 17_58.wav 2005-07-05 9_12.wav 2005-07-05 9_56.wav - crunching, walking and wind 10.5MB 1m03s short speaking: 2005-07-04 18_45.wav - throwing rocks 18 Mb 2005-07-04 22_55.wav - luna "what are you thinking- of painting the house white?" 9.1 MB 55s bad: 2005-07-04 18_21.wav - banging headphones test 2005-07-04 19_38.wav - nothing 2005-07-04 21_10.wav - not much 2.2 Mb
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