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Sound Clip: Arborea Sardinia Under Water by Michael Peters
The city of Arborea on the island of Sardinia, Italy, lies where a large swamp used to be. In the early 1920s, Italian dictator Mussolini ordered it to be drained, so drainage channels and pump works were built. Where the swamp used to be, residents built an artificial city with rectangular numbered streets that used to be called Mussolinia, and is now called Arborea. A mile north of Arborea lies a warm lagoon and a beautiful (although fascist) Bauhaus style drainage pump work, called Idrovora di Sassu. A road goes by, with a bridge crossing the end of a drainage channel at the edge of the lagoon. A hydrophone was placed into the water, not far from a group of flamingos. You can hear the occasional rumble of cars passing over the bridge, and most prominently, the beautiful sounds of what I think are underwater insects.
Great sound- lovely to think these tiny sounds of life go on all the time without us aware….