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Recordist's notes
Palm trees trunks are covered with matted dry fibres, the remains of leaf fronds from previous years. It's easy to hide a contact microphone amongst them. They sound when a wind blows. Another contactmic picking up the bassier sound of a bigger branch as it meets the trunk recorded in sync is mixed in. DIY piezo contact mics: Triton Bigamp piezo preamps
About the place
Amora is a town of about 52,577 people in Setúbal, Portugal. OttoAnna lists 6 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
- “R. dos Malmequeres 20, 2845 Amora, Portugal - Windgusts through palmtree fronds and fibres heard by 3 contactmics” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0