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Basketball and Birds
5:39
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Recordist's notes
People playing basketball below me in the park on a Saturday morning, while the birds (parakeets and pigeons) behind me eat grains that somebody gave them. In the second half of the recording you can hear a man pushing a shopping trolley of empty bottles along the pavement to the recycling bank, then dropping them in. Recorded with ZOOM H4n.
About the place
Barcelona is a city of about 1,686,208 people in Catalonia, Spain. OttoAnna lists 169 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.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Plaça Josep M Folch i Torres, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain - Basketball and Birds” by RorySmith – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0