We are getting in, passing through and getting out the all the time very crowdy underbridge, connecting the south-west-end areaway of "Galata Köprü" with the areaway of "Mısır Çarşısı" and "Yeni Cami". There are really a lot of shops, people, toys, speaker systems, mobiles, life ... .  Artificial head recording - works best on headphones!

"Ragip Gümüspala Caddesi" Underbridge, Eminönü/Istanbul

This artificial head recording was made while walking around at the fishmarket at the Galata Kpr. at Karrakoy/Galata/Istanbul. The market is located left at the Beyoğlu Riverside. Artificial head recording - works best on headphones.

Fishmarket at "Galata Kpr.", Karaköy/Istanbul

This recording was made while Istanbul was still getting up. We hear all those activities going on around the famous place "Galata Kulesi" quite early in the morning. Artificial head recording - works best on headphones.

"Galata Kulesi" in the morning, Galata/Beyoğlu/Istanbul

Istanbul "Adhān", the prayer of the muslim Turkish people recorded from the top roof of a house near "Galata Kulesi" in Beyoğlu/Istanbul. So there is a various range of different mosques in different distances transmitting the muezzin voices of different surrounding districts. Artificial head recording - works best on headphones.



"Adhān" in Galata/Beyoğlu/Istanbul

The Egyptian Basar or Spice Basar is located at the Faith side of the "Galata Kpr.". It is a sound walk recorded by in-ear artificial head microphones. So it works best on Headphones. Interesting moment at 06:15 min where i pass an open service entrance facing to the "Yeni Cami" mosque from where we hear a short but clearly wind of the muezzin voice of the last prayer of the day streaming into the baser building.

"Mısır Çarşısı" ("Misir Carsisi"), Faith/Istanbul

The "Eyüp Sultan Camii" is located right at the last stop of the Üsküdar-Karaköy-Eminönü-Eyüp-Line, the golden horn passenger seabus. We here the atmosphere of inside the Dome, a full carpet filled room with a great architecture. Artificial head recording - works best on headphones.

"Eyüp Sultan Camii" Inside the Dome, Eyüp/Istanbul

This recording was made outside the "Eyüp Sultan Camii" in the stone atrium in front of the main entrance of the mosque. Artificial head recording - works best on headphones.

"Eyüp Sultan Camii" Atrium, Eyüp/Istanbul

The Energy Museum at "Silahtarağa Elektrik Santralı" at "Bilgi Üniversitesi" in 
Eyüp/Istanbul is a very nice lace to hang out. There are manny lovely interactive exhibits all around electricity, physics and logical thinking. We hear a exhibit with little different size metal balls running down and moving through a complex structure of aglets. Artificial head recording - works best on headphones.

Energy Museum at "Silahtarağa Elektrik Santralı"/"Bilgi Üniversitesi", Eyüp/Istanbul

So we move constantly away from the Dome of the "Eyüp Sultan Camii", through the atrium into the second square belonging to the mosques complex, the fountain square. The recording was made while the prayer was held inside the mosque. In the end of the recording manny people are getting out of the mosque and the place is getting real crowd. Artificial head recording - works best on headphones.

"Eyüp Sultan Camii" Fountain Square, Eyüp/Istanbul

The atmosphere is recorded with a artificial head mic in the dome of the "Ayasofya-Camii" in ‪Sultanahmet/Istanbu‬l. It was a relative low crowded day, but there were still manny visitors inside. Onto the end of the recording i move out of the dome into the west gallery to end up in a little stone atrium between baptistery and south gallery. There the track noises of the modern istanbul tramway "T1" are clearly healable.

"Ayasofya-Camii", ‪Sultanahmet/Istanbul‬ ‪Sultanahmet/Istanbul‬

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