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The viaduct

E411, 5000 Namur, Belgium

A 5-minute field recording by Vincent Duseigne made in Namur, Belgium on 19 April 2016, in the dawn. Soundscape: rivers, streams & waterfalls, streets & traffic and prayer, chant & ritual.

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The viaduct
4:57CC BY 3.0by Vincent DuseigneInternet Archive
4:57
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Recordist's notes

This viaduct is one of the more important road equipment in all Belgium. It's an enormous metallic viaduct on an highway crossing the Mass / Meuse river. All internal structure is hollowed. This recording is made inside the box girder bridge, as you can walk inside the bridge as in a metallic tunnel. Trucks make enormous explosions. Infrasounds are gigantic and make effects on the human body. It was very hard to record as everything terribly vibrate, but an accomplishment. Flavien Gillié adviced me and thanks to him.

Written by Vincent Duseigne on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Namur is a city of about 110,939 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 43 field recordings from here.

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