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Famished slug eating

Rue de la Poste 5, 1435 Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium

A 7-minute field recording by Vincent Duseigne made in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium on 1 June 2016, in the evening. Soundscape: contact-mic recordings.

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Famished slug eating
7:06CC BY 3.0by Vincent DuseigneInternet Archive
7:06
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Recordist's notes

In the all-animals-eating collection, this recording is about a slug eating a spinach leave. I was wishing to do this on the same time of the snail recording, but this brat didn’t want to eat anything !! So, I put it in a pot during 24 hours, in a dry place, and I famished it. After this time of latency, strategy was to put it on a wet young spinach leave, as I know slug adore this kind of vegetables. I put two contact microphones below the leave, fixed on toothpicks. Slug immediately eat this banquet, making big holes in spinach. The sound of a slug eating is clearly more flabby than a snail, but it remains quite interesting.

Written by Vincent Duseigne on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Louvain-la-Neuve is a town of about 29,521 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 351 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.

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