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Recordist's notes
A 20 minute meditation in Forbury Gardens overlooking the bandstand and Abbey Gateway. Construction work and the Inner Distribution Road behind dominate the soundscape and generate a lot of low-frequency rumble. This is punctuated with a light breeze blowing through the trees, pigeon calls, young children exploring the park with their carers and the chat of workers from the surrounding offices walking past. Recorded using a spaced pair of Sennheiser 8020s on a SD MixPre 6.
About the place
Reading is a city of about 318,014 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 153 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
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Sources & credits
- “A329, Reading RG1 3JH, UK - Forbury Gardens” by Richard Bentley – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0