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Recordist's notes
This is the sound of us bottling up a batch of beer. The first job involves sterilising all the bottles, so the bubbling sound is me filling up loads of glass bottles with sterilising solution. As soon as I heard the first bottle glugging, I thought "this is a lovely sound! I want to record it for World Listening Day!" So I went and got the recorder. You can hear some chit chat about that; then we bicker about Mark drinking extra beer out of some of the bottles to get the liquid levels right; we fiddle around with the fancy bottle-capping device. Traffic moves on the street, very slowly, you can hear the wonderful birds in our neighbourhood, mostly sparrows in this recording. All the timings are made by our work together as we sterilise the bottles, fill them with beer, cap the bottles then rinse them down. It's a batch of 30 bottles.
About the place
Reading is a city of about 318,014 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 153 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Our back garden, Katesgrove, Reading, UK - Bottling the beer” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0