町の音の地図についてのラジオ特集

態度、意見、推論

1. a) He realised he could not remember the old ferry hornフェリーの汽笛が取り替えられた後、彼はその音の高さを思い出せないことに気づき、それがきっかけで本気で録音するようになりました。
2. d) They matter more than recordings of special events普通の音こそが最も価値があると述べています。お祭りなら誰でも録音できるからです。
3. b) She found it slightly foolish最初は少しばかばかしいと思い、戸惑っていたと述べています。
4. c) A child's comment gave her a new way of hearing her shutterある男の子が、彼女のシャッターの音は「龍が目を覚ます音」のようだと言い、それ以来、彼女はその音を同じようには聞けなくなりました。
5. d) Sudden loud events have become more common, although the average is similar平均的な音量はそれほど上がっていませんが、ピークははるかに頻繁になりました。
6. a) It depends too heavily on him alone彼は、自分が1本のマイクを持った一人の人間にすぎないことを心配しています。町がプロジェクトを引き継いで初めて、自分より長く続くことになります。
7. c) To make them notice sounds before they capture them機械は、その人がすでに気づいたことしか捉えないので、まず注意深く聞くことが先だと述べています。
8. b) Paying attention to everyday sounds can preserve a place's characterこの特集は、ありふれた音を録音することが、町を特徴づけるものに人々が気づき、それを守る助けになることを示しています。

細かい点を聞き取る

1. six / 6ナレーターは、彼がこれを6年間続けていると述べています。
2. three / 3Idris は、古いフェリーの汽笛が3年前に取り替えられたと述べています。
3. four hundred / 400ナレーターは、その地図には400強のクリップが収められていると述べています。
4. roofクリップの1つは、トタン屋根に当たる雨の音です。
5. dragon男の子は、シャッターを目覚める龍にたとえました。
6. Thursdayこの特集は、灰色の木曜日の朝に始まります。

Narrator: On a grey Thursday morning in the harbour town of Selmouth, a retired electrician named Idris Vane is standing very still beside the fish market, holding a microphone in a fluffy grey cover. He has been doing this for six years. His aim is to build a sound map of the town: hundreds of short recordings, each tied to the place where it was made.

Idris: People think a town looks like something. I'd say it sounds like something, too, and that we only notice when a sound is about to vanish. The old ferry horn was replaced three years ago. Nobody complained, but I went down that week and found I couldn't remember the pitch of the one I'd heard all my life.

Narrator: That loss prompted him to start recording in earnest. The map now holds just over four hundred clips, and local schools use them to teach history. A good few are unremarkable by design: a bus door, a shutter being pulled down, rain on a tin roof.

Idris: The ordinary ones are the most valuable. Anyone can record a festival. It's the Tuesday morning sounds that nobody thinks to keep.

Narrator: Not everyone was convinced. Odile Marsh, a shopkeeper whose shutter features in the collection, admits she was bemused at first.

Odile: I thought it was a bit daft, if I'm honest. Who wants to listen to my shutter? But then a boy from the primary school played it back, and he said it sounded like a dragon waking up. I've never heard it the same way since.

Narrator: The project has a practical side as well. Acoustic researchers are using the recordings to measure how noise has changed along the seafront since the new road opened. Their early finding is that the average level has not risen much, but the peaks, the sudden loud events, have become far more frequent, and those, they suspect, matter more for sleep.

Idris: What worries me is that I'm only one man with one microphone. Were the town to take this on, it would outlast me. At the moment it's a hobby that happens to have grown rather large.

Narrator: He has begun training teenagers to take over, starting with one simple rule: listen for a full minute before you press record. As Idris puts it, the machine only captures what the person has already noticed.