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Recordist's notes
Sitting in the square in Villars Sur Var, you can hear people sitting and talking outside the cafe to the right, and in the distance in the centre people standing and talking outside the church. You can also faintly hear a fountain, and occasional cars winding around the roads. Recorded on a Zoom H4n internal mics.
About the place
Vence is a town of about 18,668 people in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. OttoAnna lists 5 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H4n. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.
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Sources & credits
- “Villars-sur-Var, France - Relaxed weekend café ambience” by RorySmith – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0