Pitworker

Monday, December 17th, 2012 | sounds | No Comments

A couple of months ago, sound artist Panoptic Sweep has published a great soundscape remix of my “Elevator of Doom” recording. It’s called “Pitworker” and is an intensely atmospheric experience. Listen with headphones, but not too late at night…!

Check it out at: http://margaretnoble.net/blog/pitworker/

A couple of months ago, sound artist Panoptic Sweep has published a great soundscape remix of my “Elevator of Doom” recording. It’s called “Pitworker” and is an intensely atmospheric experience....

Chernobyl Journal #11: Music and Mirrors

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | decay, gallery, hdr, project wormwood, sounds, travel journal, video | No Comments

This is part eleven of my travel photo journal to the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. Check out the Chernobyl Journal page for the full story, all pictures, videos and sounds.category.

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Leaving the docks, I went on to the cinema/theater complex to the north. In front of it must have been a large gathering area, probably with fountains, which was now a collection of concrete plates with yellow grass between them. On the side of the cinema, there was a large red-and-blue Soviet mosaic on the wall. Unfortunately, the lighting inside the cinema was almost absent, and I couldn’t get a good shot of the projection room (Beat has a picture of the room, I don’t know how long he had to expose in there!). Not surprisingly, its closed nature made the cinema one of the spots in Pripyat with the lowest radiation levels I had measured (<0.1 uSv/h, lower than my living room).

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This is part eleven of my travel photo journal to the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. Check out the Chernobyl Journal page for the full story, all pictures, videos and sounds.category....

Tags: Chernobyl, hdr, photography, Pripyat, travel, urban exploration, urbanexploration

Chernobyl Journal #10: Pripyat Port

Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | decay, project wormwood, sounds, travel journal | No Comments

This is part ten of my travel photo journal to the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. Check out the Chernobyl Journal page for the full story, all pictures, videos and sounds.

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After seeing the school, I decided to go explore Pripyat port to the east. The port must have been a beautiful spot back in 1986. Located at the River Pripyat, a café with a round outside terrace overlooked the passenger dock, accessible via a wide stairway [that's how it looked in 1986]. From a ship passenger’s point of view, the city entrance had been through a gate flanked by the café on the left side and the dock’s tower to the right side, and V-shaped columns in the middle. A bus stop and ticket office used to be right after the gate.

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This is part ten of my travel photo journal to the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. Check out the Chernobyl Journal page for the full story, all pictures, videos and sounds....

Tags: Chernobyl, photography, Pripyat, sound, travel, urban exploration, urbanexploration