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Recordist's notes
A group of kids practices skateboarding on the small football pitch. A helicopter and a plane join the soundscape too. The architecture of this location creates a reverberant acoustic that seems to amplify the sounds. The recording was made using Uši Pro pair and zoom H8.
About the place
Rotterdam is a city of about 868,135 people in South Holland, The Netherlands. OttoAnna lists 106 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: LOM microphones (Uši). Small omni microphones from the Slovak LOM collective, popular for quiet nature recording.
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Sources & credits
- “Willem Buytewechstraat 100, 3024 CH Rotterdam, Netherlands - Kids skateboarding” by Josue Amador – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0