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Running water drops through small sluice
2:20
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Recordist's notes
This area of allotment and wet meadows is criss-crossed by small streams and ditches, at the moment full of water. The flow is controlled by regular sluices and weirs. Each has a different sound as one passes making a nicely varying sonic path. A robin sings in the background.
About the place
Braunschweig is a city of about 244,715 people in Lower Saxony, Germany. OttoAnna lists 165 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Running water drops through small sluice, Tafelmakerweg 1, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany - Running water drops through small sluice” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0