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Sound from a Town

Sound from a Town

A collection of natural urban sounds. Field recordings, audio walks, features. www.soundfromatown.com

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09:54

Abandoned social club in Salford

Sound from a Town ·

2024/05/01

Apparently the Pendleton Bowling and Social Club shut down not long after a pandemic, after the owners couldn't raise funds to keep it going. I used to live opposite, well after it shut, and with no other properly social venue within a 30 minute walk, even I missed this place. Kids run about in here, climb on the ledge outside, and chuck things at stuff. That's until a parent finds them and drags them away from the crumbling neighbourhood institution. Everywhere else in the building is pretty much

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15:35

An Overflowing Derwent Dam

Sound from a Town ·

2024/04/19

I took the long route to Derwent Dam, walking south down the Ladybower Reservoir, then along the sheep fields on Crook Hill and beyond, and back to the Dam via Hagg Side, recording bits as I went, and ending on a recording of the overflowing dam. Like most rushing water, it's very white-noisey, which I quite like. Derwent Dam was built in 1902, and the reservoir was used for practising Dambusters raids. I used 2xClippys, a geophone to record one of the streams up close, and an F6. Recorded on 11th

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20:02

Egham under planes

Sound from a Town ·

2024/04/15

From Cooper's Hill in Egham I recorded the mixture of birds and planes. I didn't edit too much, as I wanted the 'natural' rhythm of the planes to be close to what it was on the day. The loudest planes are those that head east after takeoff due to them turning and heading pretty much overhead. Used 2xClippys and an Audio Technica BP4025 as I find the Audio Technica gives the tones I want for recording machines. Recorded on the 28th March from midday. www.georgepowell.online

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30:35

Ally Pally Dawn Chorus

Sound from a Town ·

2024/04/12

Recorded at Alexandra Palace. Swapped places once while I was there. If you listen carefully, you can hear the screech of - I think - a hawk amongst the more common birds. Recorded on 24th March, 05:30. www.georgepowell.online

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10:00

Feldstraße Bunker, Hamburg

Sound from a Town ·

2023/07/10

I recorded a bunch of sounds from different levels of the spiral starcase in the Feldstraße Bunker back in April. What you'll listen to is a non-linear edit of these sounds to try and convey the sense that the building is a living object, which is what I felt when I was in there. The bunker was used as a bomb shelter back in WWII, I believe. When I visited there was a load of rumbling and clanging construction going on outside which appropriately made it seem as though I was in the middle of a

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25:55

A Sunday in Bedford

Sound from a Town ·

2023/04/19

An audio walk in Bedford on a Sunday, contrasting the sounds of St. John's Retail Park and St. John's Church. You can read a more detailed write-up in a blogpost on my website here: https://georgepowell.online/blog/ Recorded on 12th March 2023.

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07:50

Tottenham High Road on Match Day

Sound from a Town ·

2023/03/15

Many businesses on the High Road thrive on match-days. Many don't. The businesses that suffer due to the council-enforced road closures, often barbershops, beauty salons and off-licenses and other retail, still have to pay the same business rates, despite many customers staying away when Tottenham play at home. In some instances, the till can be down more than half compared with a non-match day. Here you can listen to Mem, who works in an off license, talk about how things have changed for him

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25:39

Westminster

Sound from a Town ·

2023/03/07

A walk around Westminster on Thursday 19th January. From 12 bells to 1 bell. Along with the sound of Big Ben, you can hear me get shouted at by police speeding through Parliament Square and the sound of many gates being closed and locked. There were also people protesting outside Downing Street, and I spoke to Geza Tarjanyi, who made headlines a week later for pushing Matt Hancock in a tube station.

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10:35

Nurses Strike: Outside University College London...

Sound from a Town ·

2023/01/19

Listen to what nurses are saying and singing on the picket line outside UCLH in Camden. Recorded on 19 January 2023. Location: 51.5251963, -0.1367342

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38:17

Tynemouth Road Mid-Tunnel Ventilation Shaft

Sound from a Town ·

2023/01/07

Recorded in April 2021.

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06:28

Snow in North London

Sound from a Town ·

2022/12/12

A short walk during the heavy snowfall on the 11th December 2022, where children and adults ventured outside to make a mark on their brand new surroundings in the form of footsteps, scooped handfuls, and snow angels.

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03:51

A walk from Seven Sisters Road to Clissold Park

Sound from a Town ·

2022/12/03

I forget when I did this, maybe late January 2021. Location in the title. www.georgepowell.online

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07:37

Middlesbrough Train Station

Sound from a Town ·

2022/12/02

Recorded at 19:56 on 3rd November 2022. 54.57901, -1.23466

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15:37

Flaybrick Hill Cemetery with Terry Briscoe

Sound from a Town ·

2022/09/20

Terry is known as the Bard of Flaybrick. A volunteer at the cemetery who recites poems to the visitors on Flaybrick's walking tours. He's written over 2000 poems with subjects ranging from historical figures of Birkenhead, to local people, places and organisations. I spoke to Terry to find out where his love of poetry came from, why he volunteers, and how important Flaybrick is to him, and by extension, the rest of Birkenhead. www.georgepowell.online Location: 53.3984171, -3.0622207

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23:07

Hilbre Island at High Tide

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2022/06/21

About a mile off the coast of West Kirby, on The Wirral, is a sandstone archipeligo with an on-off relationship with the rest of the peninsular. Roughly every twelve hours, the tide arrives and cuts off the outcrops from the mainland. For around 3 to 5 hours, anyone caught on Hilbre or Middle Eye is pretty much alone, save for the curious brown seals, elegant swallows and swifts, and the sea. There is plenty of folklore about Hilbre Island and its smaller cousins; a place of monk's pilgrimmage, a

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21:13

Blackpool Central Pier

Sound from a Town ·

2022/05/10

Recorded during Easter Half term in 2022, this walk up and down Blackpool’s Central Pier captures the town’s summer season kicking into gear. While Blackpool hasn’t recovered its popularity as a seaside resort since the rise of package holidays in the 50s, many people still travel down to the piers. From local day trippers with their children, to older visitors who would have first holidayed there in the resort’s hay day. Many attractions still haven’t changed much since the 50s, but for many,

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15:00

Tones from Underground: Noise Pollution on the...

Sound from a Town ·

2022/05/02

A solution to cool down London's Tube network is causing all sorts of problems above ground. Mid-Tunnel Ventilation Shafts are placed at intervals along the tunnels to expel hot air, but to do so they use fans, which emit a noise that can ruin the lives of people that live around them. This episode looks at two different cases, on either end of the Victoria Line, how the structures have affected their lives, and what efforts, if any, Transport for London are going to, to help them out. More info can

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21:59

Bingley 5 Rise

Sound from a Town ·

2022/04/26

The Bingley 5 Rise is the steepest staircase lock on the whole canal waterway in the UK. In 1972, the locks appeared on a satirical BBC2 programme called ‘Black Safari’. The programme turned the ‘white explorer discovers Africa’ trop on its head, and instead saw a group of African explorers discovering deepest darkest England - with the 5 Rise being one of the landmarks they studied. Originally a French design in the 17th Century, the idea of staircase locks was brought over to Bradford in March

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38:53

Following Fabrizio's Footsteps: Sascha's tour of...

Sound from a Town ·

2022/04/20

In July 2020, I was invited to Sardinia by my friend Sascha. He was keen to show me around his favourite place on earth, and tell me all about the songwriter Fabrizio De André, who himself fell in love with the island. I gladly saved, packed my Zoom H2N, and headed out for my first trip to Italy. I wanted to record as much as possible of Sascha telling me about Fabrizio de André, showing me around Cagliari, Iglesias and Gonnesa in the south of the island, and whoever we bumped into along the way,

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22:46

Recordings from Nyanga and Harare, Zimbabwe

Sound from a Town ·

2022/04/19

Recordings from Nyanga and Harare in the north-east of Zimbabwe. Nyanga is known as the highland area, with its own micro climate and unique species of birds. There’s also alot of cattle farming so, you should be able to hear the cow bells in the distance. The final recording is of the Harare suburbs where, like most cities, nature is barely audible. Submitted by Ste Hughes and Gugu Masuku; recorded on an iPhone 13. Nyanga Location: -18.18032, 32.81052 Harare Location: -17.7553, 31.0436

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