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Recordist's notes
Am Willy Brandt Platz nahe einer Rolltreppe. Der Klang klingender, hier in den Boden eingelassener Spielsteine. Im Hintergrund Gespräche einer Gruppe Alkoholiker und Verkehrsgeräusche der naheliegenden Straße At the Willy Brandt Platz nearby a moving staircase. The sound of sounding play stones on the pavement. In the background a group of alcoholics and the traffic noise of the nearby street. Projekt - Stadtklang//: Hörorte - topographic field recordings and social ambiences
About the place
Essen is a city of about 593,085 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 215 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Stadtkern, Essen, Deutschland - essen, willy brandt square, sounding play stones” by Frank Schulte – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0