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Recordist's notes
Overhead belt conveyor transporting sintered iron ore from Arcelor's Ougrée sintering plant to the blast furnace in Seraing. The noise of this conveyor used to be one of the most characteristic features in the area and has even been immortalised in the soundtracks of several films by the Frères Dardenne. Binaural recording. Zoom H2 with OKM ear mics. Sent by fotoralf@... at 21.04.2009 01:13
About the place
Liège is a city of about 195,278 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 27 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H2n and Binaural microphones. A compact recorder with five capsules offering X/Y, mid-side and surround modes.
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Sources & credits
- “Ougrée, Rue de la Gare, overhead belt conveyor” by fotoralf@... – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0