Human Voices
The sounds left me with quite an empty feeling - they are such cold sounds. In the recordings, because they are so clear, they sound even less human. Just a giant machine. All the emotions I felt when actually making the journey didn't return to me upon listening to them. It felt very detached. I wonder if others felt that? If you take away the human voices, the corridor is a scary place - repetitive sounds and a huge echo. They sound like effects from a horror movie. The visuals are modern, very up-to-date, and there is no doubt that they have been taken recently, but the noises could have been taken from a different time, they are almost nostalgic. Grinding, sliding, whooshing, scraping, tapping, thudding - the sounds also appear to be disconnected instead of what they really are, which is just one part of a huge machine. (London, August 2005)
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