Barking town centre market 4:00
Grid square: East Ham, Barking
Recording date: 5 September 2015
Time of day: 1.20pm
Location: Walking westwards along East Street, Barking.
Description: Voices, footsteps, recorded music playing from market stalls, occasional cries of market stallholders, noises from a toy stall, distant traffic, rustling of carrier bags.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Arboretum Place Barking 2:30
Grid square: East Ham, Barking, Ilford
Recording date: 5 September 2015
Time of day: 1.45pm
Location: Middle of Arboretum Place, Barking.
Description: Voices of a group of youths echo inside the pedestrianised space of Arboretum Place, flanked by tall buildings. Distant sounds from Barking market, the wind stirs foliage on nearby trees, faint machine hum, footsteps.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Outside Barking station 2:00
Grid square: East Ham, Barking, Ilford
Recording date: 5 September 2015
Time of day: 1.10pm
Location: Station Parade outside Barking train station, east London.
Description: Constant traffic on Station Parade, voices in several different languages of passersby and people waiting outside the station, footsteps.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Barking Creek Cuckolds Haven 1:00
Grid square: East Ham, Barking, Ilford
Recording date: 30 November 2011
Time of day: 2pm
Location: Cuckold's Haven facing Hand Trough Creek, near Barking, east London.
Description: Constant traffic in the distance, a duck quacks, cries of seabirds, faint rushing sound from a weir on Barking Creek.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x DPA 2006C mics, Sound Devices MixPre-D preamp, Sony PCM M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
River Roding Alders Brook 1:00
Grid square: East Ham, Barking, Ilford
Recording date: 15 September 2011
Time of day: 4.30pm
Location: By the Alders Brook next to the City of London cemetery, Ilford.
Description: A train passes westwards along a viaduct, distant traffic, bird calls.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x DPA 2006C mics, Sound Devices MixPre-D preamp, Sony PCM M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
River Roding Barking 1:00
Grid square: East Ham, Barking, Ilford
Recording date: 15 September 2011
Time of day: 3pm
Location: North of London Road by the Roding Trading Estate, Barking.
Description: Constant background traffic, faint birdsong, beeping sound from a lorry reversing.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x DPA 2006C mics, Sound Devices MixPre-D preamp, Sony PCM M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Barking Creek 1:15
Grid square: East Ham, Barking, Ilford
Recording date: 5 March 2011
Time of day: 7.30am
Location: Town Quay, Barking, overlooking Barking Creek.
Description: Saturday morning ambience by Barking Creek with bird calls and traffic.
Technical guff: X-Y stereo. Audio Technica BP4025 mic and Fostex FR-2LE recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
TQ 4419 8447 1:00
Grid square: East Ham, Barking, Ilford
Recording date: 18 May 2008
Time of day: 11.20am
Location: OS reference TQ 4419 8447. Immediately south of the Northern Relief Road, near Barking town centre.
Description: Traffic noise from the Northern Relief Road and the yells of children in a nearby school playground. Two women talk as they go through an underpass. An empty crisp packet skitters along the ground close by.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics. Olympus LS-10 digital recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None