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Recordist's notes
After descending the endless steps downward and onto the beach I turned left and walked behind the sand towards a stand of Bull Reeds dancing in the wind. Recording is made using 2 Contact Microphones, one attached to a seperate stalk to reed. What you can hear is the internal drone of the wind passing (playing ?) through the reed. The scratching is various reeds rubbing against eachother.
About the place
University Endowment Lands is a town of about 16,920 people in British Columbia, Canada. OttoAnna lists 2 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
- “Wreck Beach Reeds - Windy_Reeds” by timothy.sound.art – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0