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Listening to the N11

N11, Bellevue Demesne, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

A field recording by Felicity Ford made in Greystones, Ireland on 29 July 2017, in the afternoon. Soundscape: rivers, streams & waterfalls, birdsong & dawn chorus and streets & traffic.

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Listening to the N11
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Recordist's notes

This is the sound of the N11 motorway and the birds in the trees, at the site where a road-protest was once en-camped. You can hear the traffic, the stream has dried up at this place (though it is still burbling away further down the valley). This was once a place where people gathered in 1997 live in and protect the nature reserve from a road-expansion project. Recorded with the EDIROL R09, sat at a picnic bench, listening to dog-walkers leaving in their cars, to the traffic on the main road, and the quietness of the trees themselves.

Written by Felicity Ford on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Greystones is a town of about 22,009 people in Leinster, Ireland. OttoAnna lists 13 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Roland / Edirol R-05 & R-09. Compact Roland/Edirol recorders that were popular for early sound-map contributions.

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