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Tip: press play to see the sound's live frequency spectrum in blue over the waveform.
Recordist's notes
Trains, birds, people waiting for their train, distant cars. Trains, oiseaux, personnes attendant leur train, voitures sur les routes à proximité. Oiseaux (via Merlin App) : Mésange charbonnière - Parus majour Mésange bleue - Cyanistes caeruleus Pinson des arbres - Fringilla coelebs Verdier d'Europe - Chloris chloris Hirondelle rustique - Hirundo rustica Tech Note : DPA 2006c AB -> Zoom F3.
About the place
Watermael-Boitsfort is a town of about 25,157 people in Brussels Capital, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 16 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom F3 and DPA microphones. A tiny two-input 32-bit float recorder – no gain setting needed.
Recorded nearby
Spring ambience with airplanes
Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium
Wood work
Uccle, Belgium
Meadow – a summer evening
Uccle, Belgium
A homeless woman
Ixelles, Belgium
The squeaky door at the entrance of the art school building
Ixelles, Belgium
Some people praying 'Je vous Salut Marie" into the "Abbaye de La…
Ixelles, Belgium
More by Flavien Gillié
More birdsong & dawn chorus recordings
Sources & credits
- “Groenendaal, 1560 Hoeilaart, Belgique - Platform ambience” by Flavien Gillié – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0