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Recordist's notes
Groups of large green heating pipes snake around this area, overhead, at path level and emerging or disappearing underground. An intriguing network. Sometimes they hiss very smoothly. This was a smaller silver pipe recorded normal and with a contact mic simultaneously.
About the place
Lichtenberg is a town of about 41,359 people in State of Berlin, Germany. OttoAnna lists 9 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.
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Sources & credits
- “Rhinstraße 67, 10315 Berlin, Germany - Hissing pipes amongst trees, normal & contact mic mix” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0