Album
Four nights in the depot
Notes from the sessions for Field Recordings for Machines, written each morning at the tram stop outside.
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Written by Ida Nachtfeld in Leipzig. Photographs from the archive.
Night one
Set up in the inspection pit. Two microphones in the roof beams, one on the spring tank. Played for three hours and kept eleven minutes.
Night four
The hum from the overhead lines is in every take now, so we tuned the whole album to it. The first tram of the morning is on the last track, exactly where it happened.
From the entry
At 04:10 the first maintenance tram goes past. We stopped fighting it on night two.
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