Breakspear Road South UB10 June 2:00
Grid square: Ruislip
Recording date: 19 June 2015
Time of day: 4pm
Location: Breakspear Road South near junction with Greenacres Avenue, Hillingdon.
Description: Loud traffic, including heavy goods vehicles, passing at speed along Breakspear Road.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
St Georges Drive UB10 June 2:00
Grid square: Ruislip
Recording date: 19 June 2015
Time of day: 3.40pm
Location: Halfway down St George's Drive, Hillingdon.
Description: Airplane drone, distant traffic, faint birdsong, footsteps of a passerby, faint sound of radio playing in a nearby house, a car drives past, noise of building work in the distance.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: Some wind noise on recording.
Hoylake Crescent west UB10 June 2:00
Grid square: Ruislip
Recording date: 19 June 2015
Time of day: 3.25pm
Location: Hoylake Crescent near junction with The Mead, Hillingdon.
Description: Distant traffic, voices of children outside a primary school, occasional traffic on Hoylake Crescent, birdsong, footsteps, a car door slams, the wind stirs foliage, faint adult voices, music from a passing car.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Mad Field Covert June 2:00
Grid square: Ruislip
Recording date: 19 June 2015
Time of day: 3.15pm
Location: Middle of Mad Field Covert woodland to the east of Hoylake Crescent, Hillingdon.
Description: Birdsong, airplane drone, distant traffic, faint banging or knocking sounds in the distance, the wind stirs foliage.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Hoylake Crescent east UB10 June 1:57
Grid square: Ruislip
Recording date: 19 June 2015
Time of day: 3.10pm
Location: Hoylake Crescent near junction with Woodland Close, Hillingdon.
Description: A van door slams, sound of a power saw and other noises from nearby house renovation work, occasional passing traffic, faint music from a nearby house, a man's voice heard faintly.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: Some wind noise on recording.
River Pinn July 2:00
Grid square: Ruislip
Recording date: 13 July 2013
Time of day: 12.30pm
Location: By the river Pinn between Swakeleys Road and Copthall Road East, Ickenham, north-west London.
Description: Birdsong, crows call, the wind stirs foliage, faint aircraft drone.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Sony PCM-M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: Bass roll-off at around 100Hz to reduce wind noise.
Copthall footpath July 2:00
Grid square: Ruislip
Recording date: 13 July 2013
Time of day: 12.45pm
Location: In a field between Harvil Road and Breakspear Road South, Ickenham, north-west London.
Description: Distant traffic and airplane drone, faint birdsong, stridulation of grasshoppers, the wind stirs foliage.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Sony PCM-M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
TQ 0854 8826 1:00
Grid square: Ruislip
Recording date: 27 June 2009
Time of day: 3.30pm
Location: OS grid reference TQ 0854 8826. Arlington Drive.
Description: Quiet residential street. Sounds of a woman tending her front garden, birdsong from trees lining the street, distant traffic, faint and indistinct voices.
Technical guff: Stereo. Audio Technica BP4025 mic, Fostex FR-2LE recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: A very pleasant couple noticed the microphone's windshield and came out of their house to talk. They said that the trees in the street were filled with ring-necked parakeets in the mornings, and they weren't too fond of those birds' raucous screeches.