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Telephone pick-up recording of Metro ride, escalator, and ticket validation machine

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

A 5-minute field recording by Felicity Ford made in Brussels, Belgium on 23 March 2013, in the night. Soundscape: sea & waves, trams, metros & buses and harbours, ports & boats.

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Telephone pick-up recording of Metro ride, escalator, and ticket validation machine
4:50CC BY-SA 3.0by Felicity FordInternet Archive
4:50

Tip: press play to see the sound's live frequency spectrum in blue over the waveform.

Recordist's notes

Listening to the Metro from Port de Namur to Arts-Loi using a very cheap telephone pick-up coil, and therefore hearing only the electromagnetic waves along this trajectory. The beeps at the end are from when I put my ticket into the ticket validating machine. Mono recording, with telephone pick up coil plugged into EDIROL R09

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

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