{"id":2141,"date":"2010-03-01T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:22:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:22:11","slug":"soundscape-market-and-rideau-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/03\/01\/soundscape-market-and-rideau-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundscape: Market and Rideau Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4396019744_e649f2fc38_o.jpg\" alt=\"image by Google maps\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">image by Google maps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As an experiment, this past weekend I brought an omni-directional microphone with me during a walk through the Byward Market and Rideau Centre. Starting beside the Highlander at the foot of the William Street Mall, I walked along seeing what sounds might leave a strong enough &#8220;audio footprint&#8221; to identify when I played the file back.<\/p>\n<p>In the first segment I managed to pick out the sounds of Karen Carpenter thumping the life out of a tinny speaker outside a candy store, then the tuneless plucking of the world&#8217;s most melody-free busker, and finally the bustle and babble of the coffee shop in the Market building.<\/p>\n<p>Next was the sound of Hot 89.9 blasting through two head-high speakers near the cosmetics promotion table inside the the Freiman Mall; as I recall this was compelling some young women to linger by the cosmetician, and encouraging everyone else to scurry through faster.<\/p>\n<p>A few seconds later we emerge to hear the roar of buses on Rideau Street, and then a strange thing happened during the last leg, which was the long walk through the Rideau Centre. As much as it sounds like a noisy place on a crowded Saturday, the carpeted floor absorbed all the peaks in the audio signal, and the digital record of the walk was mostly a very low hum &#8211;edited out &#8212; relieved by only two or three audio artifacts. Can you guess what the electric motor is? Here&#8217;s a hint &#8211; wheatgrass comes into it. Once I got near the MacKenzie King doors the squeeky wheel of an electric scooter can be heard vying with the the roar of a 97 heading west.  The very last sound is the squeel of the brakes on the the 86, come to take me home.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"40\" width=\"50%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fspacing-ottawa%2Fsoundscape\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"81\" src=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fspacing-ottawa%2Fsoundscape\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\"><\/embed><\/object> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacing-ottawa\/soundscape\">SoundScape<\/a>  by  <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacing-ottawa\">Spacing-Ottawa<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an experiment, this past weekend I brought an omni-directional microphone with me during a walk through the Byward Market and Rideau Centre. 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