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Soundscape Conjunto Mirador de Suba (balcony)

Bogotá Distrito Capital, Región Andina, 11001, Colombia

A 2-minute field recording by jhgarcia11 made in Cota, Colombia on 17 May 2021, in the morning. Soundscape: rain, wind and birdsong & dawn chorus.

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Soundscape Conjunto Mirador de Suba (balcony)
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Spectrogram of Soundscape Conjunto Mirador de Suba (balcony)
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Recordist's notes

In the present soudscape that belongs to the balcony of a building, we found -Tonic or Fundamental Sounds-: trafic in morning hours (10:00 a.m.) formed by cars, motorcycles and buses that cross the puddles of the streets; we heard this atmosphere so dark and melancholic that happens when it stops raining it mixes with the repetitive construction sound, and this urban sounds set and the cold wind contrast with the sound signals: the vigorous energy of birdsong and the hits against the ground of metal tools. Because we are from a perspective a little away of the street, we can find certain sound marks: we perceive voices almost whispered and people behind the balcony, also it's possible to filter someone sweeping. All this indentifies that we are recording a city soundscape, but from a residential. I consider that in itself, all of the city scape with the construction and the whistles of birds are too a sound mark of the place. This was recorded with a cellphone.

Written by jhgarcia11 on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Cota is a town of about 20,462 people in Cundinamarca, Colombia. OttoAnna lists 15 field recordings from here.

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