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Stopped Reefer
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Recordist's notes
Sound from a refrigerated boxcar (reefer) from a train stopped on the tracks captured simultaneously in MS stereo and from a geophone attached to a guard rail surrounding one end of the parking lot. MS recording starts and fades out as geophone recording fades in.
About the place
Ballwin is a town of about 30,577 people in Missouri, United States. OttoAnna lists 29 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.
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Sources & credits
- “Sherman Beach Parking Lot, Ballwin, Missouri, USA - Stopped Reefer” by Pierrot Desperes – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0