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Great Victoria Street

Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT1 5GS, United Kingdom

A 2-minute field recording by Georgios Varoutsos made in Belfast, United Kingdom on 28 August 2020, in the afternoon. Soundscape: streets & traffic, trains & stations and trams, metros & buses.

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Great Victoria Street
2:00CC BY 3.0by Georgios VaroutsosInternet Archive
2:00
Spectrogram of Great Victoria Street
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Recordist's notes

Next to the Europa Hotel, there is the Belfast Bus Station for local and distance commute around the island. Multiple times people were going in and out, either leaving/returning from work, a weekend trip, or just heading home from the city. People are trying to find the normal in their lives, certain areas have reopened, and others remain closed. People and vehicle traffic have retaken the sound of the city, masking the clarity of intricate sonic activities that were occurring throughout the lockdown. It begs to ask, what are we missing every day when we put ourselves everywhere? – Georgios Varoutsos (https://georgiosvaroutsos.com/covid-19/)

Written by Georgios Varoutsos on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Belfast is a city of about 348,005 people in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 93 field recordings from here.

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