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Recordist's notes
World Listening Day: midnight ambience at Brüsseler Platz, Cologne. Many people are hanging out here in warm summer nights, which provokes quite some conflicts with neighbours. (live broadcast on radio aporee, captured with an ifon, tascam ixj2, primo em172)
About the place
Köln is a city of about 1,024,621 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 772 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Primo EM172 capsules. Tiny, very low-noise electret capsules at the heart of many DIY and boutique nature-recording mics.
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Sources & credits
- “Brüsseler Platz, Köln, Deutschland - midnight ambience” by udo noll – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0