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In the woods

Avenue du Bois de Chapelle 67, 1380 Lasne, Belgium

A 7-minute field recording by Vincent Duseigne made in Rixensart, Belgium on 21 May 2017, in the evening. Soundscape: birdsong & dawn chorus, forests and streets & traffic.

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In the woods
7:00CC BY 3.0by Vincent DuseigneInternet Archive
7:00

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Recordist's notes

Recording of the birds into the urban woods of Belgium. The reality is that there's no real forest in Belgium, it's only trees, grass, leaves : in a nutshell, these objects scattered in an extremely urbanized landfield. Because of this pressure, pollution is considerable : the cars, the trains, but also and especially the intolerable airplanes. It's interesting to record the Belgian forest, as a sonic testimony of aggression on the natural environment. This explains why this sound is called "the woods" rather than "the forest". Birds are the European Robin, the Great Spotted Woodpecker, and the regular chip-chip-chip-chip are very young Great Spotted Woodpecker. At the back, European Green Woodpecker. Also the sometimes "teetooteedoodzzii" are Short-toed Treecreeper.

Written by Vincent Duseigne on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Rixensart is a town of about 21,616 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 20 field recordings from here.

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