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Recordist's notes
Clicking gas meter on the pavement recorded with a Cold Gold contact microphone. This sound was used in the soundtrack to a work by Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver called "Tracing The Chora". "Tracing The Chora" was a sound walk around the industrial zone of mid-Dubai. Tracing The Chora https://soundcloud.com/farib/tracing-the-chora-fari-bradley-chris-weaver
About the place
Umm Suqaym is a town of about 16,459 people in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. OttoAnna lists 5 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
- “Al Quoz - Dubai - United Arab Emirates - Clicking Gas Meter” by Chris Weaver – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0