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Bird sound speaker at the train station

3 Chome-9-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tōkyō-to 153-0041, Japan

A field recording by Felicity Ford made in Shibuya, Japan on 3 February 2017, in the afternoon. Soundscape: birdsong & dawn chorus and trains & stations.

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Bird sound speaker at the train station
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Recordist's notes

I was in the station when I heard this amazing bird sound; it was not familiar to me, so I walked around, trying to tune in and listen more. I found a place where the noise seemed louder, and listened for a while before realising the sound was strangely repetitive... I looked up to discover that there was a speaker above my head playing the sound. Not sure what the original bird call is, nor why it is playing in the Komaba Todai-mae station, but I thought this was an interesting feature of the Tokyo soundscape.

Written by Felicity Ford on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Shibuya is a city of about 230,609 people in Tokyo, Japan. OttoAnna lists 13 field recordings from here.

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