White Elephant, by Ludwig Berger

White Elephant

by Ludwig Berger

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This work is published with the article "White Elephant. Notes on an entangled field recording" By Ludwig Berger in the 4th issue of Field Notes, Gruenrekorder.

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An elephant lies directly beneath the tracks of the main railway station in Zurich, Switzerland. 170 metres long, 24 metres wide, 5 metres high. As part of a large infrastructure project in the 1970s, it was the beginning of a proposed highway tunnel. The project was controversial, as a motorway junction was already to be built in the middle of the city. Due to a popular initiative, the project was finally stopped, and as a result, this concrete shell was left behind between the long-distance above-ground traffic lanes and the regional train tracks underground. A huge, useless building in the middle of the city. An investment ruin, garnering the name "white elephant", without any function since 30 years. Currently, there are plans to make a bicycle underpass out of the tunnel fragment, but in the meantime the void is still silently encased in concrete.

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released January 15, 2021

Recorded at the main station of the Schweizerische Bundesbahn AG, Zurich, Switzerland in 2019.

FIELD NOTES #4, GRUENREKORDER

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Gruenrekorder is a German record label for field recording, soundscapes and sound art. It was founded in 2003 by the sound artists Lasse-Marc Riek and Roland Etzin in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The releases are mainly published on CD and Vinyl, but they are also distributed on Tape as well as in digital formats (USB-Card USB flash drives, WAV/MP3/FLAC). ... more

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