WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT TAPE LIBRARY

VANCOUVER/BC COLLECTION

REEL 30

VANCOUVER STOCK EXCHANGE / DEER LAKE Feb. 14, 1973

A

1. STOCK EXCHANGE, reception area 1'25"

[0-tone]

2. STOCK EXCHANGE, on trading floor 15'30"

B

[false take, 15"]

[0-tone]

3. DEER LAKE 15'20"

 

REEL 30 COMMENTARY

1. Waiting in reception area for permission to record, typing throughout, some talk.

2. A fairly "quiet" day in the floor, about 1/3 of the traders were there. Many voices (male) shouting names and numbers of things. The recordists were walking across the floor to the far side of the room, pausing and continuing along with several stops at various points. General boyish behaviour on the floor, such as throwing chalk, joking, whistling, singing. There were no women present.

1'35" teletype machine.

2'35" jokes about decibels.

5'25" p.a. voice.

5'35" bell.

6'15" telephone buzzer.

6'35" relatively long pause in shouting.

7'45" telephone buzzer.

8'35" bell.

8'40" p.a. voice.

8'50" telephone buzzer.

10'00" relatively long pause in shouting.

11'30" short song about moonshine, whistles following.

12'50" "Here comes the answer now" -- man reads teletype.

13'35" p.a. voice.

14'15" man clapping a beat.

15'20" leave the floor into quiet hall.

3. Mostly duck sounds, some distant whistles toward first part of take, some lulls in quacking sound.

2'15" close-up quack.

6'45" duck coughing.

7'45" ducks react to man with dog.

*9'10" bird whistle, flurry of quacking.

*11'20" high jet.

14'00" another high jet.

15'20" a third high jet.


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