Ohio

What would it be like to be able to listen to the 28th annual Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta with your head above and below the water at the same time? Let’s first assume for the moment that you’d even want to do this. Granted, the Cuyahoga River hasn’t caught fire in 55 years. That’s due in large part to many groups, both government and volunteer, doing positive and determined work to clean it up and keep it pollution-free, mostly. Even so, yuck. Let’s say however, that with the aid of a pair of underwater microphones, or hydrophones, one can achieve this simultaneous perspective. Well then, it would sound a little like the video below. Put on your snorkel tube and enjoy sounds from a rowing regatta.… Read More

Last month, I drove over to Newton Falls, Ohio (pop. 4,500) to record the sounds of an old round bank vault for my sound effects library Vaults, Safes, Keys and Locks. While there, the owner of the former bank, who … Read More

Tomorrow marks the 21st anniversary of the history-making cascading power failure that put much of the northeast United States and parts of Ontario, Canada in the dark. On August 14, 2003, a series of events occurred that switched off the lights for much of the eastern seaboard. High afternoon temperatures that day in much of the region lead to an increased energy demand on the power grid. This caused power lines to sag, some of which came in contact, or flashed, with overgrown trees below. … Read More

Evocative Sound and Visuals presents Abandoned Prison, featuring sounds captured at the historic Ohio State Reformatory (OSR) in Mansfield, Ohio. Included are nasty squeaks, loud bangs and deep thuds from the cavernous prison’s cell block doors and massive chapel door.… Read More

Images of the historic Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), built in the Romanesque style of architecture in stages between 1886 and 1910 in Mansfield, Ohio. The prison closed in 1990, the result of a federal court order. Its inmates filed a … Read More