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Sonorous bathroom vent

Hastings, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom

A 28-minute field recording by Felicity Ford made in Hastings, United Kingdom on 4 January 2023, in the morning. Soundscape: wind and sea & waves.

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Sonorous bathroom vent
28:22CC BY-SA 3.0by Felicity FordInternet Archive
28:22
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Recordist's notes

In this beautiful crumbly old Victorian hotel, we had a creaky old vent in the bathroom. It's an extractor fan, but if you leave it switched off, it seems to capture and filter and resonate the sounds of the sea from outside through its rattly old arteries. I loved listening to the sea both through the thin glass of our huge windows, and through the pipes and tunnels of this amazingly sonorous old fan. Recorded by leaving my trusty Edirol R-09 on the bathroom light while we left the room for our breakfast.

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

About the place

Hastings is a town of about 92,855 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 14 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Roland / Edirol R-05 & R-09. Compact Roland/Edirol recorders that were popular for early sound-map contributions.

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