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Recordist's notes
Meditation on Behoes Lane in Woodcote looking out over the Thames and Moulsford with Didcot power station in the distance. The shifting drone of a lawn mower is prominent throughout most of the recording punctuated in the foreground with birds and the scurrying of two rats that were intrigued by my presence. Recorded on a Sound Devices 788T with a pair of Sennheiser 8020s either side of a Jecklin Disk.
About the place
Reading is a city of about 318,014 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 153 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
Recorded nearby
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Reading, United Kingdom
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Reading, United Kingdom
Greenmore Ponds 10.30pm
Reading, United Kingdom
Birchen Copse
Reading, United Kingdom
Layby with traffic, wind, rain on windscreen, and weather bass
Reading, United Kingdom
Birchen Copse 10pm
Reading, United Kingdom
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Sources & credits
- “Behoes Ln, Reading RG8 0PT, UK - Behoes Lane Meditation” by Richard Bentley – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0