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Recordist's notes
Excerpt from Houston's Fourth of July spectacle. Recorded from a very sparsely populated vantage point. Bombs bursting in air, etc. Pretty much just us hooting and hollering, helicopters, distant soundsystem blaring top 40 tunez. Church Audio CA-14 omnis mounted to glasses > Tascam DR100 MK-2
About the place
Houston is a city of about 2,314,157 people in Texas, United States. OttoAnna lists 30 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Tascam DR-100. A rugged recorder with both directional and omni microphone pairs.
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Sources & credits
- “Fireworks: July 4th 2012, Eleanor Tinsley Park, Houston Texas - Fireworks: July 4th 2012 @ Eleanor Tinsley” by ryan urban – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0