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Recordist's notes
I wanted to hear the electricity that makes all this possible - that makes recording sounds and uploading them to aporee and sharing them online etc. etc. into a feasible thing. I took an electric pickup coil and walked underneath the nearest accessible pylon to my home. You can hear in the recording that I am walking under and around the cables of the pylon; the loudest sounds are when I am standing directly beneath the wires. It's amazing to think of how this sound imbricates all our gadgets and the landscape.
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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Clanging wires heard with the traffic of the A33 road
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Robin singing in Winter
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Sources & credits
- “Under the pylons, Waterloo Meadows, Reading, Reading, Reading RG2, UK - Electromagnetic hum” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0