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Recordist's notes
Small fountain in the middle of the complex known as the "Court Yard". Recorded using a Zoom H4 and Cold Gold contact microphone. This sound was for 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.
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: Zoom H4n and Contact microphones. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.
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Sources & credits
- “Al Quoz - Dubai - United Arab Emirates - Fountain in the Court Yard (contact Microphone)” by Chris Weaver – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0