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Recordist's notes
Balcony inside the building, a nice listening situation. I simply placed 2 omni-directional Naiant X-X mics perhaps 2 feet apart on the balcony, and listened to how the peoples' footsteps - as they passed below - excited the resonances of the very echoey space.
About the place
Brussels is a city of about 1,019,022 people in Brussels Capital, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 565 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Brussels, Belgium - Listening in the Palais de Justice” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0