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Downtown Seattle - 4th & Lenora

Seattle, King County, Washington, United States of America

A 61-minute field recording by rcarlberg made in Seattle, United States on 26 January 1999, in the afternoon. Soundscape: birdsong & dawn chorus, streets & traffic and airports & aircraft.

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Downtown Seattle - 4th & Lenora
1:01:03
Spectrogram of Downtown Seattle - 4th & Lenora
Spectrogram of the full recording (time left to right, frequency bottom to top), generated by the Internet Archive.

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Recordist's notes

An average hour on a typical day in the Seattle business district. I walked all over downtown listening for interesting acoustic environments. This one offered a tiny patch of greenery (with birds) surrounded by a small courtyard (with pedestrians) and a large angled glass bank building behind, which broke up the reflections from the ever-present traffic. Major elements: * Cars, trucks and busses * Pedestrians * Police and ambulance sirens * Birds (seagulls and finches) * Commercial and private aircraft See also: https://anode1.bandcamp.com/album/auss7-4th-lenora

Written by rcarlberg on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Seattle is a city of about 780,995 people in Washington, United States. OttoAnna lists 31 field recordings from here.

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