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STADSRUIS - CITYSOUNDS #03 Berlin

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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 just one location in Berlin: Bahnhof Nollendorfplatz and its surroundings. Complete and illustrated show notes can be found here: tmblr.co/ZRwPpx23xzCdc

Nollendorfplatz is an intersection of all sorts of transportation and the station is a complex of its own. The station is home to four subway lines, with two underground platforms and one elevated track.
The most beautiful part of the station is the entrance, close to which several memorials are built in remembrance of victims of persecution during the Second World War. One of these memorials is inside the station and has quite an impressive architecture. The memorial is adjacent to the main hall of the station and because it is a bit receded, the station noises are not as loud as anywhere else in the station. A beautiful effect, very much in line with the purpose of such a space.

This episode features the following sounds:

- Entrance Bahnhof Nollendorfplatz, ticket verding machines, talking passengers (start-3:20)
- A greeting by a vendor in one of the stalls on the basement floor of the station (repeated; 0:15)
- Trains crossing the overpass and entering and exiting the elevated part of the station (0:50-8:20)
- Sounds from the middle platform: passing trains, passengers, announcements (2:00-3:30)
- The vendor’s greeting, heavily edited to resemble The wind sounds in the subway tubes (2:50-3:20, twice repeated later)
- Inside the U3 line to Krumme Lanke: announcements, squeaking train wheels, doors opening and closing, panning to left channel (3:10-6:20)
- Sounds recorded at Augsburgerstraße station, announcement of the train to Nollendorfplatz, panning to right channel (3:30-7:10)
- Inside the U3 line to Nollendorfplatz: talking children, announcements, squeaking train wheels, doors opening and closing (4:10-6:40)
- Sounds recorded at Augsburgerstraße station, coughing man, announcement of the train to Nollendorfplatz (5:20-8:40)
- Edited announcement of terminus station (9:10-9:30)
- Inside the U3 line to Nollendorfplatz: talking children, announcements, squeaking train wheels, doors opening and closing (5:40-end).

Complete and illustrated show notes can be found here: tmblr.co/ZRwPpx23xzCdc

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released March 25, 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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