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STADSRUIS - CITYSOUNDS #01 Den Haag

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STADSRUIS - CITYSOUNDS is a collection of sounds, edited and mixed to give you an impression of parts of, or spaces in a city.

In this episode you are listening to locations and spaces in Den Haag (The Hague), the Netherlands. The complete, illustrated shownotes can be found here: tmblr.co/ZRwPpx2294RL3

The part of Den Haag you will listen to is under major construction. A new entertainment area will be built, and the old theaters (only 30-something years old) are being demolished as I write this. Former ministeries are being replaced with new ones, recreating the centre of a city in a decade or two. It is great work, urban planning.
All this demolition, construction and renovation is going on in a very busy area. One thing I remember about the recordings I made was that I had to lower the gain of my recorders quite often, something that I only have to do in a storm, or other situations with high wind speeds. Noise is a constant backdrop to the great views Den Haag has to offer.

The recording session was a joint effort of Michel Campfens and me. Michel is a professional photographer, and his pictures of some of the recorded locations are featured in the complete, illustrated shownotes at tmblr.co/ZRwPpx2294RL3 (click).

Recorded locations, in order of appearance:

- Den Haag Centraal, stationary busses (Start to 1:00)
- Hall Den Haag Centraal Railway Station, passsengers, announcements, trains and streetcars (0:50-8:40)
- Prins Bernhardviaduct, pneumatic drill and passing cars, looped (1:00-2:50)
- Intersection Utrechtsebaan/Juliana van Stolberglaan, passing bus, cars, motorcycles (1:20-2:40)
- Escalator (1) Streetcar Station Ternoot (3:05-3:15)
- Tramviaduct near Royal Library, cars and streetcars (3:15-6:20)
- Partikel Tramviaduct Turfmarkt, granular synthesis of streetcars passing through a tunnel, own composition (3:30-8:10)
- Synthesizer track, own composition (4:15-6:10)
- Schedeldoekshaven, demolition crew working with aluminium siding (4:30-5:40)
- Escalator (2) Streetcar Station Ternoot, original and edited sound, simultaneously, looped (7:10-8:50)
- Dr. Anton Philipszaal (demolition started, October 2015), air vent (7:55-8:30)
- Parking Garage Schedeldoekshaven, exiting car (8:30-9:10)

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released February 21, 2016

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The great thing about cities is: they sound different, every time. Whether you are there, or not. But every city will sound better when you are there.

Electronic ambient music, mixed with urban field recordings / citysounds. ... more

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