Laurel Hill Recordings specializes in high quality stereo ambient sound recordings for the film and video industry. Recordist John M. Miller brings 20 years of location production experience to each recording.
Multiple distant bells from various sources, recorded on a back street in the Cannaregio district. Sounds of water and gondola passing on nearby canal near end, voices. Foley,
Afternoon ambience, accordion and male vocalist duet performs traditional tune. Their volume grows and fades as the gondolier train passes. Watercraft, Row boats
Accordion, male vocal duet gets louder as gondola approach a busy bridge in San Marco district. Sound changes as they pass beneath the bridge. Music gradually fades in the afternoon ambience, other gondola pass, (no music). Watercraft, Row boats
Quiet afternoon ambience, footsteps, water sounds, accordion begins quietly, then louder, voices, coughing, music fades into distance, sounds of hammering. Watercraft, Row boats
Gondola train, accordion and male vocal duet, sound fades as they pass beneath a nearby bridge, then fade into distance until lost in general ambience. Watercraft, Row boats
Rialto exterior. ACTV waterbus maneuvers below bridge, fades. Small motorboat passes, water lapping the shore, distant bell rings 3 o’clock. Multiple bells ring further in distance. Traffic horns, voices. Ambience,
Riva del Vin, just south of Ponte di Rialto, water in foreground, ACTV docks on the far side of the canal, engine sounds of maneuvering, momentarily prominent. Voices, pedestrians, someone pulls roller-luggage past. Ambience,
