Re: Anyone recording "family ambience"?

["Hugh Livingston" oaklandonian]

My grandmother took an old (well, modern at the time!) Sony cassette 
deck with her while on a riverboat down the Nile in the mid-1970s. 
She recorded audio letters home to me and my brother, replete with 
interviewing bizarre people she met and asking them to send messages 
to us. All the while you can hear the engines chugging in the 
background and kids calling out from the shore as the boat passes. 
Quite an evocative experience. I have used the material in my sound 
art work several times.

Also, it turns out from family recordings that I had a really strong 
Southern accent when I was 6.

Thank goodness for the audio record.



-- 
Hugh Livingston
El Mirador
491 Crescent Ave #304
Oakland Calif 94610
(510) 205-HUGH
www.livingstonsound.com