EPISODE · Mar 12, 2020 · 6 MIN
2. Deukmejian Wilderness: Dunsmuir Debris Basin
from New Topophonics: Field Recordings of the Human-Altered Landscape · host Daniel Tovar
Recorded on a breezy day beneath the trees of the San Gabriel Mountains, overlooking the Dunsmuir Debris Basin. The distant 210 freeway provides a soothing, low frequency hum mixed with the gentle rustling of leaves. The elements of the environment move but you are still. Certain tones in the wind are emphasized to create a drone. Birds chirp on the branches above and, further down the mountain, the delicate, metallic clink of tractors as they spread the basin’s debris into what will be the foundation for a future public park.
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Recorded on a breezy day beneath the trees of the San Gabriel Mountains, overlooking the Dunsmuir Debris Basin. The distant 210 freeway provides a soothing, low frequency hum mixed with the gentle rustling of leaves. The elements of the environment move but you are still. Certain tones in the wind are emphasized to create a drone. Birds chirp on the branches above and, further down the mountain, the delicate, metallic clink of tractors as they spread the basin’s debris into what will be the foundation for a future public park.
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