Date: 2006; Time: -; Location: Berlin; Length: 1'38

Two field recordings of traffic sound from Ackerstraße/Bernauer Straße and from Ackerstraße/Torstraße, Berlin. 

Both recordings are radically changed in duration and in tone pitch. First, traffic sounds are replayed in quick-motion. After 30 seconds, it starts to fade over to traffic sounds in slow-motion. 

These modifications are meant to highlight some rythmical patterns in the "behaviour" of internal combustion engines across the city, on a "macroscopic" as well as on a "microscopic" level. 

At the end you can hear the sound of a German ambulance siren replayed very slowly (at the very end you will hear a short bit in normal pitch). 

Traffic noise, Berlin - time stretch manipulated -

Fritz is a cultural anthropologist studying the sonic environment. He lives in Berlin. 
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[Header and background photo by Laura Caroline Ranglack]

Traffic noise, Berlin - time stretch manipulated -

Field Recording