ExCel exterior dock 2:00
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 29 December 2014
Time of day: 1.50pm
Location: Outside the ExCel Centre overlooking the Royal Victoria Dock, North Woolwich.
Description: Quiet atmosphere with the cries of seabirds, distant traffic and aircraft drone, constant ventilation hum from the ExCel Centre.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder. Noise reduction above 4kHz in Soundforge.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Three interiors ExCel Centre 4:52
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 29 December 2014
Time of day: 1.30pm
Location: Three locations along the main gallery inside the ExCel Exhibition Centre, North Woolwich.
Description: Three separate recordings edited together, featuring generally quiet atmospheres inside the ExCel Centre. Hum of air-conditioning systems, a phone rings, a few staff at work cleaning floors, faint airplane drone.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Olympus LS-14 recorder. Noise reduction above 4kHz in Soundforge.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
North Greenwich cable car 1:25
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 27 August 2012
Time of day: 5.20pm
Location: By the North Greewnich terminal of the cross-Thames cable car lines.
Description: Voices of the children and adults queueing to ride on the cable cars, rattling of cable cars passing overhead, loud humming of the winch motor.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Sony PCM-M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
River Lea Bow Locks 1:00
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 29 December 2011
Time of day: 1.45pm
Location: Bow Locks, Bromley-by-Bow, east London.
Description: Churning and bubbling of water in one of the Bow Locks, constant traffic, faint 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 Lea Limmo Peninsula 1:00
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 30 November 2011
Time of day: 3pm
Location: Limmo Peninsula Park, Canning Town, east London.
Description: Loud, constant traffic on East India Dock Road, a regular hammering noise from a large building site.
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.
Trinity Buoy Wharf 0:57
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 8 October 2011
Time of day: Noon
Location: Trinity Buoy Wharf at Leamouth, near East India Dock.
Description: Traffic passes over the Lower Lea Crossing, a metallic clinking sound as moored boats shift around at the mouth of the Lea.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x DPA2006C mics, Sound Devices MixPre-D preamp, Sony PCM M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Thames path North Greenwich 4:30
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 18 December 2010
Time of day: 3.30pm
Location: Thames path on the Greenwich Peninsula.
Description: Quiet ambience with occasional calls of birds, distant traffic, a catamaran cruiser motors past and its wash crashes on the shore.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Edirol R09-HR digital recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Inside the O2 dome 3:37
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 18 December 2010
Time of day: 2.30pm
Location: Inside the O2 dome, north Greenwich.
Description: Recorded while walking a half-circle inside the O2 dome's gallery of restaurants and amusements. Loud humming of heating system, music piped over speakers, from restaurants and fairground rides, yells of children on go-karts.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Edirol R09-HR digital recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
Canning Town industrial estate 1:45
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 7 May 2010
Time of day: 1.30pm
Location: Walking past industrial estate units on Bidder Road, Canning Town.
Description: Vans and lorries passing by, a woman talks to a man outside a snack bar, humming and droning of industrial machinery, bulldozers shovel waste in a recycling plant.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. Sonic Studios DSM-6S/EH mics and PA-3SX preamp, Edirol R09-HR digital recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
London City Airport 1:00
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 12 February 2009
Time of day: Mid afternoon
Location: North side of the Royal Albert Dock, close to Royal Albert DLR station, facing London City Airport.
Description: Sounds of jet and turboprop engines of planes taxi-ing on the runway.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics. Olympus LS-10 digital recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
TQ 4023 8067 1:00
Grid square: Canning Town, Silvertown, North Greenwich
Recording date: 18 July 2009
Time of day: 3.00pm
Location: OS grid reference TQ 4023 8067. ON the north side of Royal Victoria Dock, near Royal Victoria DLR station.
Description: Traffic, wind rustles small trees planted near the dock, sound of JCBs working in the distance, an aeroplane from London City Airport flies overhead.
Technical guff: Stereo. Audio-Technica BP4025 mics and Fostex FR-2LE recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.
