Recorded by Dietrich Hasse, December 1993
Recordist's notes
| NO. |
SUBJECT |
DURATION |
| 1 |
 Tegel
Airport, main hall (gong and announcement at 0:56) |
1:22 |
| 2 |
Lichtenberg Railway Station, main hall (large hall, low reverberation) |
3:30 |
| 3 |
Lichtenberg Railway Station, passage (gong and announcement at 0:52) |
1:35 |
| 4 |
Lichtenberg Railway Station, outside platform, partly roofed (S-Bahn
comes and leaves) |
5:14 |
| 5 |
Hauptbahnhof Railway Station, main hall (similar in size to
Lichtenberg, but more reverberation) |
5:02 |
| 6 |
Hauptbahnhof Railway Station, passage (gong and announcement at 6:47) |
7:47 |
| 7 |
Hauptbahnhof Railway Station, platforms (completely covered by am
arch-shaped construction, steel and glass) |
3:10 |
| 8 |
Alexanderplatz Railway Station, platform (similar in construction to
the Hauptbahnhof, but a bit smaller) |
4:25 |
| 9 |
Friedrichstrasse Railway Station, platform (similar to others, sounds
from distant trains are transmitted by the rails as clicks, gong and announcement at 2:11 in the background) |
3:22 |
| 10 |
Zoologischer Garten Railway Station, platform (a more modern,
rectangular roof construction, signals of closing doors of the ICE
(InterCity Express) at 1:47, gong and announcement) |
2:24 |
| 11 |
Zoologischer Garten Railway Station, platform (closing doors again at
2:38, announcement of incoming train) |
4:02 |
| 12 |
S-Bahn
City Train from inside (an older one, ringing bell as a caution signal) |
0:32 |
| 13 |
S-Bahn City Train from inside(new one from East Berlin) |
2:58 |
| 14 |
S-Bahn
City Train from inside(new one from West Berlin) |
4:39 |
| 15 |
U-Bahn
Subway from East Berlin (starts outside and gets into the tunnel at
1:14) |
4:09 |
| 16 |
U-Bahn
Subway from West Berlin |
2:20 |
| 17 |
Streetcar
(only in service in East Berlin; a very old one, standing awhile before
starting; Walkman can be heard) |
4:12 |
| 18 |
Streetcar (newer one, with buzzing sound when it speeds up or slows
down; police car passing at 0:40) |
4:37 |
| 19 |
Streetcar
(same type with another steering mechanism without buzzing sound) |
3:33 |
| 20 |
Crosswalk
signals (usual crosswalk signal at several crossroads in Berlin) |
3:42 |
| 21 |
Crosswalk
signals (steady signal to find the location, loudness depends on the
level of the surrounding sounds) |
2:52 |
| 22 |
Kaufhof
Shopping Centre (telephone, cash register, signal for the staff in the
background) |
0:58 |
| 23 |
Recording
from the recordist's balcony (workers on a building site, streetcar in
the background) |
2:54 |
| 24 |
Recording
from the recordist's balcony (the same with a concrete mixer and some
cars) |
3:06 |
| 25 |
Recording
from the recordist's balcony (rainy Sunday morning with churchbells in
the background) |
2:02 |
| 26 |
Birds
(ducks, high frequency sounds comes from the ducks walking over thin
ice, planes in the background) |
1:21 |
| 27 |
Birds
(seagulls and coots, industrial sounds in the background) |
2:41 |
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