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Recordist's notes
“Posting postcards, day 1 of phase 2, at the time of covid19” Soundwalk Chapter LXVI of Ascolto il tuo cuore, città. I listen to your heart, city. Monday May 4th 2020. Walking to mailbox to post postcard, San Salvario district, fifty five days (but first day of Phase 2) of emergency disposition due to the epidemic of COVID19 Start at 8:14 p.m. end at 8:34 A.m. duration of recording 20’39” Binaural recording made with ZoomH2n and Soundman OKMII, 24 bit, 48 KHz, stereo wave converted in MP3 320 kbit/s As binaural recording is suggested headphones listening. The entire path is associated with a synchronized GPS track recorded in the (kml, gpx, kmz) files downloadable here: http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/4_Mag_2020_20_13_40.kmz http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/4_Mag_2020_20_13_40.kml http://users.libero.it/gigav/GPSTracks200310/4_Mag_2020_20_13_40.gpx.zip
About the place
Turin is a city of about 847,287 people in Piedmont, Italy. OttoAnna lists 203 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
- “Ascolto il tuo cuore, città. I listen to your heart, city. Several chapters **SCROLL DOWN FOR ALL RECORDINGS** - “Posting postcards, day 1 of phase 2, at the time of covid19” Soundwalk” by giuseppe gavazza – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0