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Skate-boards, glass-recycling and faint Church bells

Ville de Bruxelles - Stad Brussel, Bruxelles-Capitale - Brussel-Hoofdstad, Communauté française, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale - Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, 1000

A 4-minute field recording by Felicity Ford made in Brussels, Belgium on 27 March 2013, in the afternoon. Soundscape: wind, church bells and streets & traffic.

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Skate-boards, glass-recycling and faint Church bells
4:27CC BY-SA 3.0by Felicity FordInternet Archive
4:27

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Recordist's notes

Recorded with FOSTEX FR-2LE and Audio Technica BP4029, in a very nice listening situation with many young people skateboarding on the concrete, and many older people driving over to put their empty glass bottles in the recycling. It was a sunny day, but a bit windy as you can hear in some of the audio. Car drivers were passing the area, but the sound of the skateboarding dominated, filling the area with a sort of festive percussion of concrete and skateboards.

Written by Felicity Ford on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Brussels is a city of about 1,019,022 people in Brussels Capital, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 565 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Audio-Technica microphones. Including the AT8022 and BP4025 X/Y stereo microphones.

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