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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.
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.
Recorded nearby
Listening to the stream in the Glen of The Downs
Greystones, Ireland
Revisiting the site of a road protest where I'd lived in 1997
Greystones, Ireland
Listening to the stream and the N11 playing together
Greystones, Ireland
Chamber Orchestra
Greystones, Ireland
Fireside Music
Greystones, Ireland
Birds and cars
Greystones, Ireland
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Robin singing in Winter
Reading, United Kingdom
Creaky train between Waterloo East and London Bridge
London, United Kingdom
Doves fluttering
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Owls and jackdaws
Winchester, United Kingdom
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Walking Holme Fence, Holme Moss
Saddleworth, United Kingdom
Essen, hohe domkirche, fountain
Essen, Germany
Hoscheid, small stream schlänner
Arlon, Belgium
Hoscheid, sound object, choeur de la foret
Arlon, Belgium
Hoscheid, small stream schlänner
Arlon, Belgium
Hoscheid, sound object, lithophon
CR348, Belgium
Sources & credits
- “Beside the N11, sitting at the edge of the carpark at the Glen of the Downs nature reserve, Co. Wick - Listening to the N11” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0