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Recordist's notes
The Milenium Bridge has long been known for its musical drones. The steel wires that prevent you from falling into the river sing when it's windy. It is not audible with normal ears but can be heard by touching the side of your head to the hand rail and listening to the sounds inside. Over the years several soundart pieces in the nearby Tate Gallery have revealed and exploited the sound. Contact microphones will pick up the sound. This track uses both normal and contact microphones and crossfades between them, from the outside to the parallel sonic world inside. Peoples footsteps, wheeled cases and push chairs also resonate the metal of the bridge.
About the place
London is a city of about 8,961,989 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 171 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.
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London's loudest building site from under the Millennium Bridge
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Parallel sonic worlds: Birchtrees & Tate Modern riverside
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Parallel sonic worlds: crossfading from above to below water and back
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Renaud Millet-Lacombe
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Superflex One Two Three Swing
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Sources & credits
- “Parallel sonic worlds: Millennium Bridge deep drone, Thames Embankment, London, UK - Parallel worlds: Millennium Bridge deep drone and atmosphere” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0