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Recordist's notes
In this derelict building is a very surreal object, a cubic metal container seemingly built on top of what was once a military tank - the gun barrel is still there but sawn short. It is totally bizarre, faintly comic, sight, in a white tiled room half open to the sky, decorated with graffiti. There are metal ladders attached for climbing in and out. If hit with the hand all these railing, rungs and sufaces sound at slightly different pitches and with a deep reverberance. At two points my mobile phone interferes with the recording. Who or what is trying to communicate? A pair of swallows have built a nest in the far corner of the room and are flying around soundlessly, worried at my presence.
About the place
Templin is a town of about 17,634 people in Brandenburg, Germany. OttoAnna lists 51 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Smartphones. Phones have become surprisingly capable field recorders – many sound-map recordings were made on one.
Recorded nearby
Drones zing and a Black Woodpecker hammers at the top of a dead tree
Templin, Germany
Crushing rubble into smaller pieces
Templin, Germany
Stepping on rotten floor boards in the derelict sports hall
Templin, Germany
Wood ants explore contact mics placed on their nest
Templin, Germany
Two vibrating pipes in the abandonned school building
Templin, Germany
Forest evening at Vogelsang mid June
Templin, Germany
More by Peter Cusack
Singing Fountain, Prague Castle
Prague, Czechia
Sound inside the rail plus a displaying hoverfly
Černý Most, Czechia
Symphony of Groans, Spreepark abandonned fun fair
Rummelsburg, Germany
Water pumps
Jüchen, Germany
Walking over a dead village, Opencast atmosphere
Jüchen, Germany
Whistling windgenerator
Grevenbroich, Germany
More birdsong & dawn chorus recordings
Sources & credits
- “Hitting metal railings and tank with the hand, exSoviet military base of Vogelsang, 3949+X7 Zehdenick, Germany - Hitting railings and metal side of a mysterious tank-like machine” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0