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… the small hours of the morning, after a long 40th birthday party… the remaining guests reassemble the living room… settle around the low table… and Anna reaches for the Polish song books in the shelves behind her…. … in den frühen Morgenstunden, nach einer langen 40sten Geburtstagsparty… die verbleibenden Gäste setzen das Wohnzimmer wieder in Stand… sammeln sich um den niedrigen Tisch… und Anna greift nach den Polnischen Liederbüchern im Regal hinter ihr… mobile phone recording Anna Huebsch is an artist, originally from Gdansk, now based in Hamm. http://www.arto-hamm.de
About the place
Hamm is a city of about 178,967 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 129 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Smartphones. Phones have become surprisingly capable field recorders – many sound-map recordings were made on one.
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Sources & credits
- “Westtünnen, Hamm, Germany - Anna's Songs...” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0