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24 hours Bicycles

Collège Albert Descamps, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

A 18-minute field recording by Vincent Duseigne made in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium on 25 October 2017, in the evening. Soundscape: night soundscapes, crowds & voices and festivals, parades & fireworks.

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24 hours Bicycles
18:00CC BY 3.0by Vincent DuseigneInternet Archive
18:00

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Recordist's notes

24 heures vélos means, in french, 24 hours bicycles. Students are doing a big race, with traditional VTT running fast, folk and completely crazy bikes, running slow and bad and drunk, all running during 24 hours. Every whistle notice a bike incoming. Also, its a gigantic carousal. Every student is drunk. On evening it's happy people, shouting, pissing everywhere and vomiting also everywhere. Later on the night, more and more alcohol, it will be another story... But also this feast, it's bleusailles. It's a patois word meaning ... perhaps trial by fire, its hard to translate as it's a quite special belgian folk, with clothes and rules. 9:30 mn, it's baptized students walking, coming from Hermes school, shouting and ... singing ? I think they are completely drunk ! Recording while walking in the center of the city. It's all night shouting like this !

Written by Vincent Duseigne on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Louvain-la-Neuve is a town of about 29,521 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 351 field recordings from here.

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