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Recordist's notes
Mine 7 is the only active mine in Longyearbyen and provides the town with coal. The recordings are from in the mine. The noise level inside is immense and I recorded by using contact mics on the different infrastructure connected to the machinery. The field recording is a part of The Cold Coast Archive. http://www.coldcoastarchive.org
About the place
Longyearbyen is a town of about 2,368 people in Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen. OttoAnna lists 40 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
- “Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen - Mine 7, Longyearbyen” by signe lidén – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0