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Recordist's notes
What better way to relax after the walk around Aphrodite's Trail with extraordinary views, giant and 500 year old trees and the panorama from Mutti tis Sotiras? A short, immersive (not literally, sadly) moment of listening to the polyphony of watery sounds in the natural fissure and cave that is the bath place of Aphrodite. An extraordinary complex sound scene with drips and flows, close by and resonating along with a distant but very definite conversation between two birds (pigeons?) maybe the souls of Aphrodite and Adonis? I used a pair of Roland binaural mics on either side of the branch of a tree that looked directly into the bathing place to an Olympus (how appropriate) LS5
About the place
Paphos is a town of about 35,961 people in Pafos, Cyprus. OttoAnna lists 3 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Binaural microphones. Microphones worn in the ears (or in a dummy head) that capture sound as a listener hears it – best experienced on headphones.
Recorded nearby
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A pair of wrens feed their young
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Middle Hope Cove - Turning of the tide at Middle Hope
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Sources & credits
- “Rd To Fontana Amoroza, Neo Chorio, Cyprus - Aphrodites Bath” by Peter Annear – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0