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Recordist's notes
How to explain this sound ?! It's quite complicate. We are in an underground slate quarry. It's a dead end tunnel. In aim to extract the bad rocks, miners drill into the stone. They make a long drilling, diameter 3 cm, lenght 4 meters. At the end of the drilling, they put some explosive. Here, it's a drilling. As it was the end of the quarry (bankruptcy), they didn't explode the rocks. So, the long drilling remains, as this, since a century. Inside the stone, there's a spring. Water is following a strange way inside the fracking. This is the sound of the water inside the drilling.
About the place
Arlon is a town of about 26,179 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 58 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “6840 Neufchâteau, Belgique - Abandoned slate quarry” by Vincent Duseigne – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0