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Ilosaarirock Soundscape: Saturday Bicycle Parking

Ilosaarirock Festival is an annual rock festival held in Joensuu, Finland. The festival was founded in 1971 and it is the second oldest rock festival in Finland that is still active. It is also one of the oldest rock festivals in Europe.

In 2018 the festival had 65 500 festival goers. The festival lasted for three days and was held 13th - 15th of July. The city of Joensuu has 76 000 inhabitants. These recordings were made to study the change in the city soundscape during a mass event.

Many of the locals coming to the festival are using bicycles. There is a specific area dedicated to bicycle parking. This recording was made in front of the parking area around 1.30 am during the second day of the festival.

Sound & photo: Antti Makkonen

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2010s
143.7 MB
4 min 9 s
2 (Stereo)
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96 kHz
4608 kb/s
32 bit
72 dB

Recorded on July 14, 2018
Bicycle Parking Space
Joensuu, FINLAND
Creative Commons License