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Recordist's notes
Round midnight, where the marshy area of Adventdalen merges into Adventfjord. Passing cars at the beginning, bird voices. Tascam DR-100 MKIII, Immersive Soundscape Earside Standard mics on stand with light windshields. wav 96kHz, 24 bit converted in mp3 320 kbps.
About the place
Longyearbyen is a town of about 2,368 people in Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen. OttoAnna lists 40 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Tascam DR-100. A rugged recorder with both directional and omni microphone pairs.
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Sources & credits
- “6MCQ+4R Longyearbyen, Svalbard e Jan Mayen - Round midnight, where the marshy area of Adventdalen merges into Adventfjord” by giuseppe gavazza – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0