Sifting through hours upon hours of audio recorded with a field recorder I found this epic noise orgy. Recorded 4 years ago it took me a while to remember what this was.
Workers in the back yard of the house next door pummeled a concrete walkway with jackhammers, waking me up from a sound, sound sleep. Closing the bathroom door and the bedroom door provided a reasonable amount of insulation to buffer the noise but man, what a rude awakening. The picture of the man with the jackhammer is not the person making the noise in this recording. It just happens to be the only picture I have of someone using a jackhammer. Man With Jackhammer was posted to sorabji.com on March 26, 2000, followed by several other shots which show folks standing nearby looking on.
