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Al Quoz - Dubai - United Arab Emirates - Air Conditioned Bus Stop

16 D 65 - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

A field recording by Chris Weaver made in Umm Suqaym, United Arab Emirates on 16 January 2016, in the evening. Soundscape: streets & traffic, trams, metros & buses and construction & industry.

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Al Quoz - Dubai - United Arab Emirates - Air Conditioned Bus Stop
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Spectrogram of Al Quoz - Dubai - United Arab Emirates - Air Conditioned Bus Stop
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Recordist's notes

Late afternoon traffic recorded inside an air-conditioned bus shelter. Recorded using a Zoom H4 This sound was used in the soundtrack to a work by Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver called "Tracing The Chora". "Tracing The Chora" was a sound walk around the industrial zone of mid-Dubai. Tracing The Chora https://soundcloud.com/farib/tracing-the-chora-fari-bradley-chris-weaver

Written by Chris Weaver on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Umm Suqaym is a town of about 16,459 people in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. OttoAnna lists 5 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Zoom H4n. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.

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