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Recordist's notes
abandoned watertower near small railway station (in soviet times the station was fully functional, now it is more dead than live). I placed my sound traps: contact mics on barbed wire, omnis, electromagnetic antenna. and there's portrait...
About the place
Utena is a town of about 25,397 people in Utena, Lithuania. OttoAnna lists 1171 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.
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Sources & credits
- “Ąžuolija, Lithuania, sonic portrait at abandoned watertower - Ąžuolija, Lithuania, sonic portrait at abandoned watertow” by alas23/sala – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0