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Lunatic woman

Clivo di Rocca Savella, 10, 00153 Rome, Italy

A 5-minute field recording by maciej janasik made in Rome, Italy on 2 September 2014, in the morning. Soundscape: streets & traffic and crowds & voices.

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Lunatic woman
5:00Public Domain Markby maciej janasikInternet Archive
5:00

Tip: press play to see the sound's live frequency spectrum in blue over the waveform.

Recordist's notes

(binaural) came across a woman living in a makeshift tent in the bushes of this back street. every day she was waling along the road, carrying a bunch of weeds and a stick, out of the blue talking to passer-bys about different concepts. each "listener" heard a different story. she was smoothly changing topics in a blink of an eye as if it was one story. some people were running away scared of her, some were trying to get into the conversation. you could tell she had gone off her rocker yet her words and ideas were coherent and educated although. sometimes very abstract and out of this world. here only a short excerpt.

Written by maciej janasik on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Rome is a city of about 2,318,895 people in Lazio, Italy. OttoAnna lists 90 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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