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Street Music
« on: July 13, 2003, 04:11:10 am »

Last week I recorded some music and a few small video clips of two Romanian musicians playing on the streets of Paris.  Their routine was to set up in the street or on the sidewalk in front of a cafe, say "bonjour, bon appetit" and launch into 3 or 4 tunes.  Then the saxaphonist would take his coin purse and pass through the cafe while the accordianist went on playing another tune or two.  Then on to another cafe.  After 5 or 6 cafes, they would disappear back into the subway.

It's how they earn a living and it's about as basic and honest as music gets.  They get paid if people like the music.

Here's a 10MB video clip.  It will take about as long to download as MC does.

http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/pavel/MOV00899.MPG

(I had to fiddle with Internet Explorer settings under "advanced" to keep IE from playing the video.)

Anyone else interested in street music?  It would be nice to collect a few clips.

BTW, they spoke no English and almost no French, so we did a lot of talking without understanding too much.  I tried to tell them I wanted to buy some music for exactly this purpose.  I think they understood the 40 Euros ($45) I gave them and the beer I bought.

Here are some smaller music clips of the same musicians:
http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/pavel/030708007.WAV
http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/pavel/030708009.WAV

In the second one, you can hear a guy playing along by striking the bell on his bike as he rode by (around 1:15 into the track).
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Re: Street Music
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2003, 02:02:54 pm »

JimH, encode them into MP3 for faster download! :)
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Re: Street Music
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2003, 05:17:53 pm »

I think they are compressed wav.  88Kbps.  They are from a Sony Clie PDA, using the voice recorder software.

While I was recording, I met another guy coming down the street, with a mini-disc recorder and a nice microphone.  I asked him what he was doing and he said he ran a web site that records sounds each day -- from Paris, I think.  It's here:

http://www.lesondujour.com/

"le son du jour" means "the sound of the day".
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Re: Street Music
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2003, 05:30:19 pm »

Nice site but i didnt get too much from it coz you know! ..... Language skilling :)
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Re: Street Music
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2003, 05:35:05 pm »

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Re: Street Music
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2003, 03:40:05 am »

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Re: Street Music
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2003, 04:38:28 am »

thought you were on the same island as gilligan for a few days.
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Re: Street Music
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2003, 12:45:15 am »

Hello JimH

I'm the guy with the nice microphone ;-) You can listen the mix of this record on this place http://www.zedigitalhub.com/lemonde/envoi2.zip


I just have a look to the video... Cool! it's a good view of the Paris touch.

I hope you enjoy yourself in france.

Cordialement,

Jean-Charles Baudot

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Re: Street Music
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2003, 10:14:18 am »

Hi Jean-Charles,
It's a nice surprise to find you here!  I had a great time there and the Romanians were some of the best fun I had.  Seeing you walking down the street was like seeing myself in the mirror, except that your equipment was better.

Please use any of the sounds or movies that you like.

Jim

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