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Recordist's notes
On the top of the mountain, the wind is howling in the old installation of the ski station of Chacaltaya, Bolivia. The station was the highest in the world, and stops a few years ago, because of the smelting of the ice (du to global warming). The teleski cable and tube is still there and the wind sing in it! :-) Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8 with a Cinela Zephyx Windscreen Sound Devices 788T recorder with CL8 MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right recorded in february 2014 on the top of Chacaltaya Mountain, above La Paz, Bolivia. Wave 96kHz 24bit Sound Reference: @SAM140216
About the place
La Paz is a city of about 2,004,652 people in La Paz Department, Bolivia. OttoAnna lists 14 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders and Schoeps microphones. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
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Sources & credits
- “Chacaltaya - Wind singing in an old tube on the top of the mountain” by Felix BLUME – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0