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At the stairs
6:34
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Recordist's notes
At the stairside of Wiener Platz on a mild windy spring day. The sound of a foreign mother talking on her mobile phone. Other people sitting on the stairs and talking in the distance. Trams ringing and traffic passing by. soundmap safe spaces - topographic field recordings and social ambiences
About the place
Mülheim is a town of about 41,711 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 43 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Smartphones. Phones have become surprisingly capable field recorders – many sound-map recordings were made on one.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Wiener Platz 1, 51065 Köln, Deutschland - Cologne - Wiener Platz - at the stairs” by Frank Schulte – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0