Not sure this is lighter

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Not sure this is lighter

« on: January 17, 2023, 07:21:30 »

Use of a former railway tunnel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/64139029

Different things for different sorts.

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grahame

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Re: Not sure this is lighter

« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2023, 07:37:08 »

Hmmm ...

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The race takes place in Combe Down Tunnel, a mile south of Bath city centre, and starts at 4pm on a Friday in March.

I will leave it in "Lighter side" as that's where the weird and wonderful goes. Reminds me of a book w-a-y back "Funny Ha,Ha and Funny Peculiar" ... and our "Lighter side" is really both.


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Re: Not sure this is lighter

« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2023, 12:08:36 »

At least they get music while they run. Assuming it's not turned off for the occasion; might be too stimulating!


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Re: Not sure this is lighter

« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2023, 13:07:42 »

The audio is (intended to be) motion activated and is also on a timer. It's asleep between around 7:30pm and 10:30am - so things are quiet for the people who use the route for morning travel to work.

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Re: Not sure this is lighter

« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2023, 14:14:27 »

I didn't realize it was on a timer. I think that's a slight shame; if I had to get to work that early, I'd appreciate a bit of music on the way!


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Re: Not sure this is lighter

« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2023, 17:28:34 »

If working 9 to 5 the happy traveller would have the opportunity to enjoy it on the way home. Wink

The timings were picked on the basis that the artwork would be a bit much when encountered day after day before 9 on the way to work. Fortunately the late owls and early birdsong in Lyncombe Vale is less repetitive. OK, the owl is highly repetitive...it

Here's a bit more on the artwork 'Passage' - the sound penned by one Mira Calix, now sadly deceased (and recorded at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast. Given that this is the Somerset and Dorset, it would have been more appropriate for that to be Cleethorpes perhaps, but Aldeburgh it was).

https://www.twotunnels.org.uk/passage.html

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