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Jeu de boules

42, Montée des Rivoirettes, Oris-en-Rattier, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France métropolitaine, 38350, France

A 14-minute field recording by juL McOisans made in Échirolles, France on 29 July 2026, in the afternoon.

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Jeu de boules
13:43
Spectrogram of Jeu de boules
Spectrogram of the full recording (time left to right, frequency bottom to top), generated by the Internet Archive.

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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

Written by juL McOisans on radio aporee ::: maps.

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.

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