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Field recording · Belgium

Shopping mall

Boulevard de lEst 10, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

A 30-minute field recording by Vincent Duseigne made in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium on 15 December 2018, in the afternoon. Soundscape: sea & waves and soundwalks.

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Shopping mall
30:00CC BY 3.0by Vincent DuseigneInternet Archive
30:00
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Recordist's notes

A large shopping mall during a long walk. Make emerge a soothing sound from a huge commercial mall may seem like an antithesis. Indeed, the atmosphere can be particularly stressful. However, listening without being drowned into the busy place causes a sensation of calm. It's relaxing. After a while, we don't listen ; we hear, we are there but without being there. That's why I had chosen one of the worst dates possible : just a week before Christmas on a busy Saturday afternoon. These shops are so crowded that we are in a kind of wave, an hubbub, a flow. Discussions become indistinct. In reality excerpt a few fragments that startle in this density, we have an impression of drowning.

Written by Vincent Duseigne on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Louvain-la-Neuve is a town of about 29,521 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 351 field recordings from here.

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