Treetop walkway Kew Gardens 3:00
Grid square: Brentford, Isleworth, Richmond
Recording date: 5 May 2013
Time of day: 4pm
Location: Kew Gardens, south-west London.
Description: Recorded while walking a circuit of the Treetop Walkway in Kew Gardens, south-west London. The walkway is about 60 feet/18 meters high and surfaced in perforated sheet metal which makes the clattering sounds you can hear as people walk over it. The planes are bound for Heathrow a few miles to the west.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Sony PCM-M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: Thanks to Jacky Minchella.
River Brent barge shed 1:00
Grid square: Brentford, Isleworth, Richmond
Recording date: 6 August 2011
Time of day: 6pm
Location: Disused barge shed by the Commerce Road industrial estate, Brentford.
Description: Echoing sounds inside the barge shed, with calls of ducklings, a plop as the mother duck dives underwater, aircraft drone, hammering in distance.
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 Brent Glaxo HQ 1:00
Grid square: Brentford, Isleworth, Richmond
Recording date: 6 August 2011
Time of day: 5.50pm
Location: By the GlaxoSmithKline offices near Boston Manor Park, west London.
Description: Constant sound of machinery at the side of the office building, faint rush and splash of an ornamental water feature that runs into the Brent, loud traffic with siren.
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 Brent under the M4 1:00
Grid square: Brentford, Isleworth, Richmond
Recording date: 6 August 2011
Time of day: 5.30pm
Location: Under the M4 motorway near Boston Manor, west London.
Description: Muffled sound of traffic passing along the motorway overhead, a coot calls, faint jingling from a chain as a walker approaches with his dog.
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.
Great Conservatory Syon House 2:46
Grid square: Brentford, Isleworth, Richmond
Recording date: 30 August 2010
Time of day: 2.45pm
Location: Inside the Great Conservatory at Syon House, Brentford
Description: Visitors walk through the Great Conservatory, jet planes fly overhead bound for Heathrow, a constant hum from a small wall-mounted transformer.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. 2 x MM-HLSO/Sennheiser MKE-2 mics and Edirol R09-HR digital recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
TQ 1647 7688 1:00
Grid square: Brentford, Isleworth, Richmond
Recording date: 30 May 2009
Time of day: 1.30pm
Location: OS grid reference TQ 1647 7688. Quaker's Lane, a broad alleyway running off London Road near the junction with Spur Road.
Description: Vehicles pass along London Road, a few dozen yards away. Aeroplane drone and voices of children walking along Quaker's Lane, who pause then run past the sound recordist, who is in motionless 'living statue' mode.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics. Edirol R09-HR digital recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: One of the few instances where the recordist's presence obviously influences the sounds in the auditory scene.
Brentford boatyards 1:00
Grid square: Brentford, Isleworth, Richmond
Recording date: 11 February 2009
Time of day: 11.00am
Location: Brentford boatyards at the mouth of the River Brent.
Description: Arc-welding equipment, drilling sounds from further away, honking of Canada geese, indistinct cries and shouts from boatyard workers, and airplane drone.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics. Olympus LS-10 digital recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
