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Recordist's notes
This Hinterhof is new, surrounded by media/tech business. It is quiet, the city sounds arrive over the roof tops. Mostly it is car park but the one tree and a patch of green is enough for a blackbird sounding in the dusk before it roosts. There is a small pond with a tiny, very quiet, fountain switched off at night. At weekends the gates to the road are closed.
About the place
Kreuzberg is a city of about 153,135 people in State of Berlin, Germany. OttoAnna lists 790 field recordings from here.
Recorded nearby
Large open space; damp amongst the apartment blocks
Kreuzberg, Germany
Moritzplatz underground mezzanine
Kreuzberg, Germany
Eingang zum Untergrund / underground entrance
Berlin, Germany
Zwischengeschoss mezzanine Moritzplatz
Berlin, Germany
Backyard reverb – so much that sirens becomes continuous
Kreuzberg, Germany
Vibrations in the elevated structure as a UBahn train passes
Kreuzberg, Germany
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Symphony of Groans, Spreepark abandonned fun fair
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Water pumps
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Walking over a dead village, Opencast atmosphere
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Whistling windgenerator
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Sources & credits
- “Ritterstraße 3, 10969 Berlin, Germany - Quiet of a new Hinterhof plus an evening blackbird” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0