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60 Minute Cities Ottawa (revisited)
Season 4
A special episode of The Place of Sound podcast featuring highlights from a project I did in 2017 for Bivouac Recordings, in Hong Kong, called 60 minutes Cities Ottawa, a series of winter time field recordings of Ottawa.
Note: This episode is also available in French.
This is a special episode of The Place of Sound podcast. You’ll hear highlights from a project I did in 2017 for Bivouac Recordings, a sound label based in Hong Kong, called 60 minutes Cities Ottawa - featuring winter sounds in Ottawa - curated by Terrence Lloren, which is a series of albums focused on an individual’s genius loci or the ‘spirit of a place’.
Each 60-minute cities album is a personal document of the recordists (re)discovery of their ‘city’ through sound. The 60 minutes of recordings are taken from the recordist’s own personal surroundings and include photos and text to describe the significance of these sounds to their own lives.
The result is a document that reveals the deepest character of a place through a native resident’s own experience so that (locals) and non-locals, as well as the recordist, can (re)connect with the city and (re)discover the beauty of their place.
You’ll hear excerpts from :
- Commemoration, recorded on November 11, 2016 at 10.58am at the National War Memorial on Elgin Street
- Running, recorded on New Year Day, 2017 at 11.28 am in Sandy Hill
- Protest, recorded on January 21, 2017 at 11am at the corner of Elgin and Gloucester street
- River, recorded on January 29th, 2017, at 1.34pm, on the Ottawa River west of downtown
- Office, sound of office towers and entry and exits at 150 Elgin St.
- Skateway, the rideau canal skateway, on January 26th, 2017
- Parliament Hill on February 18, 2017, at 11.58am
TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE
Note: below is my original script which I improvised from during the recording
(Choir singing O Canada at Remembrance Day ceremony, November 11, 2016, Ottawa)
Please stand for O Canada…
(Fade to silence)
My name is Claude Schryer. Welcome to a special episode of The Place of Sound, a radio show/podcast produced in Carleton University’s Communication and Media Studies Program by Dr. Vincent Andrisani and airing on CKCU FM, campus radio.
The Place of Sound explores the idea of ‘place’ through the ears of students and sometimes, guest producers, like me. Check it out.
I’m speaking to you from Ottawa, which is on the unceded and un-surrendered territory of the Algonquin-Anishinaabe nations, who are the customary keepers and defenders of the Ottawa River Watershed and its tributaries.
What you’ll hear today are highlights from a project I did for Bivouac Recordings a sound label based in Hong Kong. In 2017 I produced 60 minutes Cities Ottawa as part of Bivouac’s 60-minute cities project, curated by Terrence Lloren, which are a series of albums focused on an individual’s genius loci or the ‘spirit of a place’, which is closely related to the objectives of this podcast.
Each 60-minute cities album is a personal document of the recordists (re)discovery of their ‘city’ through sound. The 60 minutes of recordings are taken from the recordist’s own personal surroundings and include photos and text to describe the
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