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Recordist's notes
Pausing at the service station on the M25 home, we were sitting having our coffees when I realised that the service station soundscape really reminded me of a huge swimming pool. The hum of electricity, the fraught children yelling, the huge expanses of glass reflecting all the sounds... ok the coffee-making sounds are less swimming-pool like but the din of many people in a large, reflective space was quite astounding. What a soup of noises. I drank my coffee and tuned in to the soup. Weirdly, you can't see the services at all on the aporee map; I think the satellite imagery predates this build. It feels very strange to overlay this very industrial, car-related racket onto a green field site. But I did double check the post-code and this is where the sound is. Maybe in thousands of years time aporisti will overlay this recording with the sounds of birds and trees once again.
About the place
Cobham is a town of about 16,724 people in England, United Kingdom.
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Sources & credits
- “Motorway service station, Downside, Cobham, Surrey KT11, UK - Motorway service stations sound like swimming pools” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0