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Recordist's notes
This random pile of fencing wire abandoned decades ago is still silvery and un-rusted, but grass and other plants grow through it. In wind it moves as complex interlinked system creating percussive hums from low bass to higher pitches that reverberate inside. Unhearable to the ear, but audible to contact mics. The contact mics are the simplest self made piezos, but using TritonAudio BigAmp Piezo pre-amplifiers, which are very effective. They reveal bass frequencies that previously I had no idea were there.
About the place
Templin is a town of about 17,634 people in Brandenburg, Germany. OttoAnna lists 51 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
- “Singing/rumbling wire at the exSoviet military base, Vogelsang, 16792 Zehdenick, Germany - Wind in abandoned fencing-wire as heard by contactmics” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0