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Recordist's notes
The UBahn tracks here are elevated above the road. These are the vibrations in one of the massive metal supports recorded with a contact mic. Between trains not much is audible in the structure - just very minimal traffic - so I've edited to shorten the gaps. The sound is somewhat different depending on train direction. In this recording it is eastbound followed by westbound, repeated twice.
About the place
Kreuzberg is a city of about 153,135 people in State of Berlin, Germany. OttoAnna lists 790 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
- “Gitschiner Str. 49, 10969 Berlin, Germany - Vibrations in the elevated structure as a UBahn train passes” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0