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Field recording · Belgium

The viaduct

E411, 5101 Namur, Belgium

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

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The viaduct
5:01CC BY 3.0by Vincent DuseigneInternet Archive
5:01
Spectrogram of The viaduct
Spectrogram of the full recording (time left to right, frequency bottom to top), generated by the Internet Archive.

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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, which is here in steel and not concrete. Trucks make enormous explosions, smashing joint with high velocity and high burden. Infrasounds are gigantic and make effects on the human body, it's sometimes difficult to sustain. It was very hard to record as everything terribly vibrate and drowned into infrasound strong waves, but an accomplishment. Flavien Gillié adviced me about this kind of recording, in a smaller structure, and thanks to him. It was a dream to record this mythical box girder.

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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