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Cairo ambience

القاهرة, مصر

A 21-minute field recording by hannes strobl made in Cairo, Egypt on 3 April 2014, in the evening. Soundscape: streets & traffic.

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Cairo ambience
20:32CC BY-SA 3.0by hannes stroblInternet Archive
20:32
Spectrogram of Cairo ambience
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Recordist's notes

cairo ambience with the typical car honking, interaction and reaction to each other in traffic, the different pitches and chronological sequence of the horns create a melodic and rhythmic structure and generate a kind of audio geography of the space

Written by hannes strobl on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Cairo is a city of about 9,606,916 people in Cairo, Egypt. OttoAnna lists 9 field recordings from here.

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