Between Soundmarks and Landmarks

*Recording technique: ORTF *The Soundscape: Remarkable about this recording is the night aquatic life on the Ilm river in Bad Berka. There is a few geese population. A car can be heard slowly driving past and the voices and tones of the river can be felt in distinctive stereofields. The Ilm is a 128.7 kilometers (80.0 mi) long river in Thuringia, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Saale, into which it flows in Großheringen near Bad Kösen. Towns along the Ilm are Ilmenau, Stadtilm, Kranichfeld, Bad Berka, Weimar, Apolda and Bad Sulza. In the valley of Ilm river runs the federal motorway 87 from Ilmenau to Leipzig and two railways: the Thuringian Railway between Großheringen and Weimar and the Weimar–Kranichfeld railway. Part of the Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway also runs through the upper part of the valley near Ilmenau. *Recording and monitoring gear: Zoom F4 Field Recorder, RODE M5 MP, Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO/ DT 1990 PRO.