Heating Oil Jingle
Comments: 15
Winter, late afternoon, a rainy twilight. The heating oil truck is making its way through the neighbourhood, playing its winsomely melancholy jingle.
Heating Oil Jingle, Rainy Night (228K mp3, 00:00:28)
Three cars come by with perfect timing, and from 00:00:16 the rain stops. A drop of water falls onto the tin above the window.
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Posted to Audio • 2003.02.15 (Sat) • 09:25
Comments
Posted by Infininight 2003.02.15, 15:25
I’ve got to be missing something… The heating oil trucks over there make music?
Posted by Michael Morgan 2003.02.15, 22:04
That’s pretty creepy sounding, alright. Man, I’ve gotta move to Japan. Do they need anyone to teach English over there, cause I be speaking it good, yo.
Great site!
Posted by Niko 2003.02.15, 22:16
Nice. What audio equipment are you using to make the actual recording itself?
Posted by Todd Dominey 2003.02.15, 22:19
That’s a keeper. Lovely. Great atmosphere.
Posted by steve 2003.02.16, 00:57
In Taipei, Taiwan, the garbage trucks play Fur Elise.
Posted by Matthew Aaron 2003.02.16, 02:08
That’s eery and amazing all at the same damn time. What inspired you to record it and with what? Excellence.
Posted by vis10n 2003.02.16, 02:17
Amazing.
I can just picture some BLADERUNNER set with all the strange folks moving in and out of shadow, as a little truck on mis-aligned wheels trumbles through the scene… it’s once bright-and-happy paint faded and scarred.
Posted by rabiddeity 2003.02.16, 06:10
Man, that’s pretty eerie. Most of the tunes they play at the train stations are peppy and upbeat, but this is a pretty sharp contrast.
Posted by Mary Beth 2003.02.16, 09:17
Amazingly wonderful to listen to but I have to say I enjoyed reading the description so much beforehand that I almost didn’t listen to it at all. I actually read the description out loud a couple times. thanks
Posted by jh 2003.02.16, 11:19
Yep, the heating oil trucks play music. Hell, this is Japan: everything plays music.
The recording set-up couldn’t be simpler (hence the shoddy quality of most of these recordings). I have an old Apple Plain Talk mic resting on a shelf just in front of the window (Apple intended these mics to be used with speech recognition, but they’re actually surprisingly good general-purpose microphones). If something’s happening outside, I open the window and then open AudioX to record the input from the mic.
I export the recording to AIFF, bring it into Sound Studio to edit it and maybe apply some basic filters. Then I use iTunes to convert to mp3.
Posted by Kris 2003.02.22, 19:23
You should start an audio gallery.
Posted by Tokyocrow 2003.05.22, 23:02
Nice recording. Almost made me run downstairs with the 20 liter red fuel can and 1000 yen in hand.
Yes everything makes a sound here. Even my toilet has a chime. The bath heater will speak to you in a nice female voice but I’m not sure she’s saying what I’d like her to say though -:)
Posted by Omni 2005.02.11, 03:06
The music of the oil truck is money to my ears.
Posted by T. Edward Tucker 2005.03.05, 09:24
The Oil Business needs musical trucks like the ice cream business. It would take our minds off the high prices.
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