This recording should be sent over to the extraterrestrials as an illustration of human behaviour – an extremely typical McDonald’s cashier call drawing customers attention to the available desk. But in the meantime it’s just a request made by one of the oontz.ru blog readers in Russia called Ateh.

Recorded September 18th, 2010 (CA)
Published October 8th, 2010.

Tonight at the Sergiyev Posad railway station. Two homeless looking men, scraps of conversation and the beeping toys sold in a box laid on the ground.

Recorded September 5th, 2010 (CA)
Published September 6th, 2010.

Ostrovok (literally meaning small island) is a deserted part of the town made up of the two old houses, one of which is destroyed. Pictured above is an inhabited one, and nearly all the sounds of this place are connected to its dwellers’ activities in a way. You will hear a pigeon flying up to me and then stepping on the rustling leaves scattered all over the place and a man calling his cat. All these are backed by the air-went hum and distant trains.

Recorded September 25th, 2010 (CA-14)
Published October 1st, 2010.

A wheeled suitcase rumbling is heard all across the paved square in the town centre. The unexpected overtones are somewhat jet-like.

Recorded July 18th, 2010 (CA-14)
Published September 25th, 2010.

There’s a baffling billboard addressed to the drivers passing along the road in Semkhoz area of Sergiyev Posad. The slogan is ‘Do remember – you’re a parent of someone‘. So this is the sound of someone’s primogenitors cars recorded near the board.

Recorded September 19th, 2010
Published September 21st, 2010.

Sergiyev Posad central bus station safety message, delivered in a dry tone.

Recorded September 11th, 2010 (CA-14)
Published September 15th, 2010.

Two old ladies chatting on a bench by one of the most widely known block of flats in Sergiyev Posad. Located at 9, Karla Libknehta street it is alternatively dubbed as Pentagon for its c-shaped form with the name deriving from five adjacent blocks of one to three porches each. Pentagon’s inner yard has an unusual acoustics.

Recorded September 7th, 2010 (CA-14)
Published September 12th, 2010.