Kitchen cleaning and espresso machine cleaning: over several minutes you hear the cleaning of an espresso machine, cleaning all the metal parts of it and working with water and sponges. Recorder: zoom h4n with the internal mic on 48khz with 24bit.
Ambience of an traditional austrian coffeehouse. Recorded within the bar. Very light walla, dishes, coffeemachine, key and money rattles from the waiter, water drain, garbage,. . . Recordingdevice: tascam dr-100mk2, 44,1khz, 24 bit.
The whole precedure: switch-on-klick. Heats up. Hisses with a few nice whistling melodies (from 00:27 on). Boils. Automatic switch off. Close stereo recording (10cm) with sony pcm-10. Pretty low background noise (kitchen ambience).
This recording was made 15 nov 2008 at 21:55 when i was walking my dog. At a distance i heard running (melted) water so i took my h2 and went to the place where the sound originated from. Recorded at gps coordinates n59 16. 303 e18 04. 460.
Pulling apart and throwing / dropping / breaking / smashing chunks of ice from the frozen water pooled up over the cover of my swimming pool. The breaking ice sometimes sounds a bit like shattering glass; at other times the sound is more crunchy and wet.