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Recordist's notes
This strange recording is simply a mole digging a tunnel. I saw a mound moving, so walking very cautiously, I put a contact microphone into the mound... and I heard it was working. Great ! As this, you can hear it digging (very deaf small sound) and after pushing the clay outside (noisy clay movements). And again and again and again. At the end of the recording, the microphone made a jump into the mound, collapsing !
About the place
Troyes is a town of about 60,785 people in Grand Est, France. OttoAnna lists 14 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Bourguignons, France - Mole digging” by Vincent Duseigne – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0