bonus episode - solar eclipse 2024

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This is a special bilingual episode of the conscient podcast recorded on April 8, 2024 during the solar eclipse in Ottawa. The same recording can be found on both the conscious podcast and the conscious podcast. Here is a transcript of what I said.

This is a bonus episode of the conscient podcast.

It's 3.15pm Eastern Standard Time. I'm in Ottawa near the path of totality of the solar eclipse that's going to hit its peak in about 10 minutes.

Un épisode spécial du balado conscient le lundi 8 avril 20024. On est à la veille d'arriver au point culminant de l'éclipse solaire ici à Ottawa, et j'ai pensé l'enregistrer pour vous.

It's April 8th 2024. I am going to record the transition towards the peak at 3.25 pm and beyond to observe acoustically what changes. I would say the light is definitely decreasing and has been doing that for the last 20 minutes or so. But the soundscape, I don't know... Let's listen, I'll stop talking. Let's listen to the sound of the 2024 total solar eclipse in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Bonne écoute.

This is the peak. Voici le moment. (note: at 11 minutes in the recording)

Well that’s it. It’s sonically interesting because right around the peak, the birds started becoming much more active and it was very quiet before then so maybe the lesser amounts of light triggered something in their behavior. That's possible or it could also be random.

Donc il ne s'est pas passé grand-chose. Sauf que la vie était à la fois tranquille comme d'habitude, mais aussi animée avec les oiseaux qui, je ne sais pas trop pourquoi, se sont mis à chanter au moment clé à 3 h 25 de l'après midi lorsque le soleil était caché par la lune. Et de toute façon, c'est un bel exercice de méditation et d'écoute. Ce qui nous entoure, le ronflement, le chant des oiseaux, les sons des voisins. J'ai entendu une ou deux voix dire ‘it’s 2 minutes to’. Mais c’est tranquille et c'est bien parce que c'est un moment de.. Comment dire?

It's a moment of great significance in the planetary cosmology, if you want and it's a moment where we, that we can all share depending on where you live in the world, but we can all be aware of other earth's and its cycles, and there's good things that can come from that.

So this is the end of this episode. I will let it run for another couple of minutes. I thank you for listening and for sharing this soundscape recording of the 2024 solar eclipse from Ottawa on the unceded territory of Algonquin Anishinaabe peoples.

Merci de votre écoute.

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