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Equinox

Zürich, Bezirk Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

A field recording by robinpender23 made in Zürich (Kreis 10) / Wipkingen, Switzerland on 20 March 2020, in the evening. Soundscape: parks & gardens.

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Equinox
Public Domain Markby robinpender23Internet Archive
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Recordist's notes

This is a spot in a park in Zurich where some builders constructed a latter-day stone circle with some sandstone boulders they'd found whilst excavating a nearby water reservoir in 1953. Made at sunset on Spring Equinox 2020, at the onset of the covid lockdown. Recorded in ambisonic B Format on a Twirling 720 Lite mic and Samsung S9 android smartphone, downmixed into binaural

Written by robinpender23 on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Zürich (Kreis 10) / Wipkingen is a town of about 15,718 people in Zurich, Switzerland. OttoAnna lists 3 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Binaural microphones, Ambisonic microphones and Smartphones. Microphones worn in the ears (or in a dummy head) that capture sound as a listener hears it – best experienced on headphones.

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 Spectrogram of Sound and the City #05

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 Spectrogram of Sound and the City #01

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 Spectrogram of Sound and the City #08

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 Spectrogram of Sound and the City #19

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