Today, 12:00 CET (in about 10min!) radio.earth live session:

*** Walking Berlin with a broom by katrinem / Sam Auinger ***

In this streaming session katrinem and Sam Auinger walk from Prenzlauerberg to Moritzplatz. A broom is always with them and is pulled behind them relaxedly.
Its soft dragging sound sometimes reveals the different floor patterns and
coverings. They linger for at least 10 minutes each at particular places/sites, such as Mauerpark or Alexanderplatz. tune in at https://radio.aporee.org

this looks promising!

tuned in. that's a pretty busy, noisy city soundscape

we will have a few different one I guess, along their path

yeah, I was thinking what the path will be and how different the surroundings are going to sound

katrinem often performs streets and places with her brooms, sometimes with large groups.

this type of hat is a great way to be inconspicuous with the mics :)

he looks like the audio-shamane ;) but indeed the mics are nicely embedded

where are we now?

sounds like this playground is in a well made of blocks of flats. the rumbling car bounces around nicely

compared to yesterdays's session this gives a completely different impression on public space and how it is inhabited and utilized

the soft broom is ear massage

yes, it is a nice, consistent element of the changing soundscapes

surface sensor

I have just noticed that I am bobbing my foot to the rhythm of the shoes/steps, since a while! 😄

Playground next to Volksbühne

To talking about the biodiversity, as they wrote Udo, John G. and Neoscene. For me it is strong and important topic. In our small town you can observe dead fields with exhauted soil, without insects and of course without meadow birds. New homes, new habitats for the birds are gardens around the houses in towns. It is also interesting to observe differences in biodiversity within these urban gardens. It very much depends on how we behave in these gardens, how we farm here. In 2013, we decided to change one field where it was managed "chemically" into a forest park with a wetland. In total it was 6ha. A completely different landscape was created that created a completely new soundscapes. We are now working on two other similar projects. I hope that we will start to implement them next year.

thanks katrin and sam for this beautiful binaural transmision 🙂

Yes, this sound really good and the transitions from place t place comes across very well in the changes in acoustic and what is going on. Particularly in this last 15 min moving into central Berlin showing huge contrasts between loud traffic/tram streets to the surprsingly quiet ambiences protected by large buildings. The pigeons were great.

that's true, they even go inside and behave like pidgeons, eg. coming close for food.

By and thanks for joining us!

dankeschön!

thank you.

This is really great. Thanks Katrin and Sam for this beautiful walk. Shows so many possibilities of acoustic spaces within a city, we can't really imagine unless we hear it this way.

Thank you for these nice comments

walking with someone else's ears always so impressive!