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Near London Road, listeing

137 London Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 9HZ, UK

A 5-minute field recording by Felicity Ford made in Oxford, United Kingdom on 21 March 2014, in the evening. Soundscape: wind, birdsong & dawn chorus and streets & traffic.

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Near London Road, listeing
4:46CC BY-SA 3.0by Felicity FordInternet Archive
4:46

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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...

Written by Felicity Ford on radio aporee ::: maps.

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Oxford is a city of about 162,100 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 73 field recordings from here.

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