SoundsField recordingsFrequenciesDecibelsInstrumentsGlossaryToolsLearn
  1. Home
  2. Field recordings
  3. Belgium
  4. Brussels
  5. The three minute wait for the photos from… – Brussels
Field recording · Belgium

The three minute wait for the photos from the photobooth

Saint-Josse-ten-Noode - Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Bruxelles-Capitale - Brussel-Hoofdstad, Communauté française, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale - Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, 1210, België - Belgique - Belgien, European Union

A field recording by Felicity Ford made in Brussels, Belgium on 19 June 2013, in the afternoon. Soundscape: wind, streets & traffic and construction & industry.

Listen

The three minute wait for the photos from the photobooth
0:00

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

Recordist's notes

Time spent waiting for the photobooth to develop four black and white photos of me and Valeria. The photos take three minutes to develop, a window of time for listening to the ambience of Botanique and the nice mechanisms of the photo processor inside the booth. Sirens, trams, many car horns passing and other large sounds passing outside... and inside, the churning innards of the machine, and the delicate noise of the completed photos falling down their little plastic chute. Recorded by sticking Naiant X-X microphones either side of the photo chute, onto the photobooth, with blu-tack. Used with FOSTEX FR-2LE.

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.

Recorded nearby

More by Felicity Ford

More wind recordings

Sources & credits