Soundwalk in an Airport
I work in an airport and I spend my entire time, I have to walk around the terminal and speak to people a lot. There are a few parts in my day where I don't talk to anyone and just stand around listening and observing people and the terminal itself. I decided to record my soundwalk at this time. The airport terminal is large, tall, and is most of the time filled with hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of people. It's very echoey so anytime someone has a conversation from one end of the terminal, if it's mostly empty, you will faintly hear their voices. Every 30 minutes or so there is an announcement that plays and says to not leave bags unattended at any time, all checked items are subject to search, and even not to get a ride from someone you don't know. As I stand there observing everything and everyone I hear children crying and yelling, TSA agents LOUDLY instructing people to have their IDs' and boarding passes ready to for them, people on lines complaining about them being extremely long, multiple conversations (even in different languages), bags rolling, and the beeping and conveyor belts of the x-ray machines. There is a lot of negativity at the airport because of people not following simple directions and they end up yelling at the workers and TSA agents. There was a passenger that was yelling at the airline worker for a good 5-10 minutes until the port authority police department came up and arrested the man. Apparently, the airline worker called them as soon as the man became aggravated and when he started yelling at the worker. As soon as the PAPD came up to him, almost everyone within a 10-15 foot radius became quiet. They became quiet enough to hear the handcuffs snap on the man's wrists. Airports have many different sounds that you could hear, these are just a few of the hundreds of sounds I hear in the airport.
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