Accordion day was celebrated all over in Iceland 5th of May with concerts in many public places all over the country. This was a perfect opportunity to cycle downtown and record a “squeeze box concert”. The concert was held in an open place at Hallærisplan (Ingólfstorg) in Reykjavik center and the players were members of the Reykjavik Accordion Club. In background, mostly on right side, are some bang and rumble noise from skate boards and motorcycles.
This recording was made with “binaural microphones” and Primo EM172 capsules. There were rather much wind which sometimes disturbed the recording. So -20db was enabled at 20hz in post.
Best to listen with headphones.
Harmónikudagurinn 5. maí 2012
Um allt land virðist sem þann 5. maí 2012 hafi „harmonikudagur“ verið haldinn með pomp og prakt. Það kom ekki skýrt fram á heimasíðu harmonikufélaganna en um það mátti lesa á ýmsum öðrum blogg- og vefsíðum. Þennan dag var þó auglýst harmonikuball á Hallærisplaninu í Ríkisútvarpinu.
Það var því kjörið að bruna þangað á reiðhjólinu með upptökutæki og heimatilbúna “Binaural” hljóðnema. Það er því best að hlusta á upptökuna í góðum heyrnartólum.
Download mp3 file (192kbps / 24,2Mb)
Recoder: Olympus LS10 (24hz/48Khz)
Mic. Binaural (Primo EM172)
Pix: Sony DSC-P120
Very nice recording (and sounds like a very fun day)! I was looking at the pictures you posted of the microphones you’re using – do the capsules sit inside your outer ears when a person wears them? It looks like they’re on the outside at least when they’re on the mannequin head.
Thanks Alex.
The capsules are on my outer ears. Not because I think it is better, it is just because it was so simple to put the capsules on this former headphones. ….Well, it sounds not so bad anyway.
In future I like to make some fastening to put the capsule as close to inner ears as possible.
Dummy head is also on my „drawing board“.
Magnus
I really like this piece Magnus. It’s fun but it is also important from a social history perspective. Imagine someone listening to this in 200 years time! I think recordings like this are really valuable so well done.
Thanks Des.
I hope this civilization will last next 200 years….
But anyway, I hope I can improve the quality of this daily life recordings for future generation. We always hope we do not wast time for nothing 😉