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Recordist's notes
I am exploring the sounds of my commute. After I park at Barton, I walk down the very busy and noisy London road. This moment when I turn off that main road and start heading for the quiet backstreets is the first part of the journey where you can find details; you can hear individual footsteps, the sounds of birds, the sounds of someone working at the back of the supermarket. Yes, you can also hear the deep bass rumble of London Road, but it's interesting to find so much detail and variety even so close to that very noisy road. The wind was extremely strong on this day, sorry for the bass of the recordings, those Naiant X-X omnis don't do so well on a really breezy day...
About the place
Oxford is a city of about 162,100 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 73 field recordings from here.
Recorded nearby
Stepping off the street into the lane
Oxford, United Kingdom
Going under the ring road around Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Photocopying in the LIbrary
Oxford, United Kingdom
Woodpecker and DIY duet
Oxford, United Kingdom
Mining bees going in and out of their burrow
Oxford, United Kingdom
Going into the office
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sources & credits
- “Behind the Waitrose carpark, just off London Road, Headington, Oxford, UK - Near London Road, listeing” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0