On a recent visit to Istanbul I recorded several ‘soundwalks’ through the cityscape. The recordings were made with a discreet pair of self-made binaural mics (panasonic wm-61a capsules) on a Sony PCM-D50. What becomes clear is that moving through space (as opposed to a stationary recording position) reveals just how diverse the spaces are in Istanbul). These walks were done as a casual pace, occasionally pausing to highlight particular sounds.
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Istanbul soundwalks
10 Nov
This entry was written by john grzinich, posted on 10 Nov ’09 at 01:39, filed under location / site, mp3 / sound recordings and tagged binaural, Istanbul, Panasonic WM-61A, phonography, radio aporee, Sony PCM-D50, sound mapping, soundwalk, urbanism. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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The Museum of Modern Art wasn’t so noisy (or busy) when I was there – glad to hear that the Biennale was well-attended. One sound that I found particularly interesting on my recent visit was duelling muezzin: we were at dinner one night at a place equidistant between three mosques and the call to prayer was comparable to a free-jazz barbershop quartet.
Hope you had a good time!