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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.
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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Sources & credits
- “City of Brussels, Belgium - Skate-boards, glass-recycling and faint Church bells” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0