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Recordist's notes
This factory complex makes rails for train tracks (presumably mostly for Deutche Bahn). This looks like a storage area and the overhead crane moves them around. The sound is an instantly recognisable soundmark of the Kirschmöser area. When the crane is still the soundscape is very quite - the distance low drone of a pasing boat, crows, ravens and wind trees. Today is windless, cold and sunny. Comparing this recording with the one beside it is interesting. They both sound almost the same, although there is 10 years between them. The technology here hasn't changed in that period.
About the place
Brandenburg an der Havel is a town of about 59,826 people in Brandenburg, Germany. OttoAnna lists 139 field recordings from here.
Recorded nearby
Kirchmöser Ost - starlings /w air traffic noise
Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
6pm garden ambience, jackdaws, geese, churchbells, distant train
Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
Winter morning, garden ambience
Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
Morning garden ambience, horns and drone
Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
Garden ambience
Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
Quiet evening garden ambience
Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
More by Peter Cusack
Singing Fountain, Prague Castle
Prague, Czechia
Sound inside the rail plus a displaying hoverfly
Černý Most, Czechia
Symphony of Groans, Spreepark abandonned fun fair
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Water pumps
Jüchen, Germany
Walking over a dead village, Opencast atmosphere
Jüchen, Germany
Whistling windgenerator
Grevenbroich, Germany
More wind recordings
Sources & credits
- “Overhead crane moving steel rails in the storage yard, Grenzstraße 69, 14774 Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany - Overhead crane moving steel rails in the storage yard” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0