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Recordist's notes
The internal condenser-mics of my fieldrecorder (H4N Pro) were used. The device stood on the stonewall around the clocktower on a small stand and pointed south-west. It was a sunny morning, which was particularly silent at first, because of the corona-virus lockdown. All of a sudden the alarm of a car standing somewhere far away began to beep loudly, and the noise overlaid the whole area around the "Schlossberg" and "Hauptplatz". Shortly after the alarm had stopped the curch-bells of Graz began to ring at 7 o'clock in the morning, together with the bells of the clocktower immediately behind me. After the churches went quiet again, I stopped the recording.
About the place
Graz is a city of about 303,270 people in Styria, Austria. OttoAnna lists 47 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H4n. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Schloßberg 3, 8010 Graz, Österreich - Car-alarm, clocktower and church-bells at 7 oclock” by felix.wagner – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0