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It’s five o’clock on Saturday with bells in the time of COVID19: Soundwalk

Isolone Bertolla, Torino, Piemonte, 10099, Italia

A 41-minute field recording by giuseppe gavazza made in Turin, Italy on 13 February 2021, in the afternoon. Soundscape: church bells, trains & stations and soundwalks.

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It’s five o’clock on Saturday with bells in the time of COVID19: Soundwalk
40:53Public Domain Markby giuseppe gavazzaInternet Archive
40:53
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Recordist's notes

"It’s five o’clock on Saturday with bells in the time of COVID19": Soundwalk Chapter CXXXI of Ascolto il tuo cuore, città. I listen to your heart, city Saturday, February 13th, 2021. San Salvario district Turin, walking to Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, then Porta Nuova railway station and back. More than three months of new restrictive disposition due to the epidemic of COVID19. Start at 4:55 p.m. end at 5:36 p.m. duration of recording 40’53” Binaural recording made with ZoomH2n and Soundman OKMII, 24 bit, 48 kHz, stereo wav converted in MP3 320 kbit/s. As binaural recording is suggested headphones listening. The entire path is associated with a synchronized GPS track recorded in the (kmz, kml, gpx) files downloadable here: http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/13_Feb_2021_16_54_35.kmz http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/13_Feb_2021_16_54_35.kml http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/13_Feb_2021_16_54_35.gpx.zip

Written by giuseppe gavazza on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Turin is a city of about 847,287 people in Piedmont, Italy. OttoAnna lists 203 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Zoom H2n and Binaural microphones. A compact recorder with five capsules offering X/Y, mid-side and surround modes.

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