Now the Toilet

Friday, February 9, 2007
2:45 PM


For this recording I chose to get some sound from the lady's bathroom again. The more recordings I did there, the more I realized that you could hear the hum of the park waterfall in every recording I did. I didn't even know the waterfall was working since the lake was frozen. While I was in the bathroom, though, I kept hearing background noises and wondering what they were. In this recording you can also hear the thrum of cars outside on Highway 18. For this recording I stuck one mic in a bucket under the divider between stalls, and the other I stuck in the toilet bowl. It made a high pitched noise from the toilet and a close-in, dampered noise from the left mic. It made for a nice contrast in the recording. You coudl hear the two mics almost fighting each other in harmonial dissonance. You can also quite strongly still hear the heater. Click here to hear the recording.