A documentation of sounds left unheard during the time of curfew in the Netherlands.
The curfew is limiting our freedom of movement during the night. As an evening person, who enjoys to take a walk late at night, this was a reason to get out on the street at night, and as an artist document the sounds that are outside - left unheard, except for dog owners and workers who have to be out on the street, those trespassing the curfew and the police monitoring the curfew.
Upon taking a walk every night at roughly the same time, following the same route, the repetition of each walk and the deviation of this repetition each night becomes apparent. The weather is different each night (wind or no wind, wind directions, rain, snow, ice), the regular dog walkers are met at different moments during the walk, the passing of traffic of cars, trams, busses, bikes, boats and scooters, and the birds.
Presented on a dynamic website, the visitor can listen through these walks, and compare the different recordings, jump to pauses in the walk and see a visualisation of their own walk through these recordings.
show guide
Below here there are multiple file players. You can start and pause playback, jump to a new marker within a file, and you can drag the playhead to a different location in a file.
The (i) to th left of each player shows at which date the recording was made and what the total duration of the recording is.
The circles visualise your path through the field recordings of my walks.
The ranges indicated in the player area are indicated here in a circular manner, the yellow markers appear here as red markers, and the yellow spans indicate the parts you have listened to.
Copyrights on this work (interface and recordings): Marije Baalman, 2021
Recordings made with a Zoom H2N recorder and slightly mixed and marked in Ardour.
Thanks to Netherlands Coding Live for Javascript/CSS/HTML5 suggestions (especially Timo Hoogland and Joana Chicau)
Player based on: https://essential.audio