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<p class="legio-kicker">FIELD NOTE · 2024-03-10</p>
<h1>Zermatt - Bridge over River in heavy snow</h1>
<p class="legio-story-deck">Heavy snow, a mountain river and a wonderful day walking around Zermatt.</p>
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## Listen
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<strong>Listen to the field recording</strong>
<small>Zermatt - Bridge over River in heavy snow</small>
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## The story
Zermatt was wrapped in heavy snow when my wife and I wandered away from the busier streets and found a small wooden bridge crossing a mountain river. Snow softened the town around us, but beneath the bridge the water was rushing with extraordinary energy.
I stopped to listen to the contrast: the quiet fall of snow above us and the broad, continuous roar of the river below. I set up the Zoom F3 with my stereo pair and let the recording run while we stood there in the cold. Yes - it was deliciously cold.
Snow itself is almost impossible to hear, yet it transformed the whole recording. The river became a wonderfully natural blanket of white noise. - powerful and detailed up close, but strangely calming when I stopped concentrating on its individual movements.
It was one of those unplanned moments that made the day memorable. Next time I would love to move closer to the water, perhaps even lower a hydrophone into the river, and hear what this frozen mountain landscape sounds like beneath the surface.
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<span>Recorded, photographed and written by Mark, from Legio Sounds</span>
<span>Legio Sounds</span>
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