Listen

Tip: press play to see the sound's live frequency spectrum in blue over the waveform.
Recordist's notes
Tous les samedis, parfois aussi les mercredis de la belle saison, quelques habitants se retrouvent pour une partie de boule. Ici on joue à la "longue" plutôt qu'à la pétanque. On joue en mixte aussi, fait assez rare. C'est presque un rituel, où l'ambiance & les discutions importent davantage que le jeu lui-même. Every Saturday, and sometimes on Wednesdays during the summer months, a few locals get together for a game of boules. Here, they play ‘longue’ rather than pétanque. Women play as wel as men. It’s almost a ritual, where the ambiance and the discutions are more important than the game itself. binaural recording
About the place
Échirolles is a town of about 33,088 people in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. OttoAnna lists 5 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Binaural microphones. Microphones worn in the ears (or in a dummy head) that capture sound as a listener hears it – best experienced on headphones.
Recorded nearby
More by juL McOisans
Sources & credits
- “Oris-en-Rattier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France - Jeu de boules” by juL McOisans – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0