A pneumatic drill on a building site, recorded from a second story window via Zoom H2n. The drill runs in short bursts, breaking up concrete, a small cement …
November 18th, 2025
Roadworks with drills and banging. A strange whistling sound in the background gives the recording an 'ambience of Tibet'. Recorded on a zoom H4.
A pneumatic drill. Six utterances of varying durations. Recorded in Belfast using binaural microphones (Soundman OKMII) in 2002.
June 21st, 2022
a recording of pneumatic drill surrounded by general work sounds in city
This was just outside the hotel I was sleeping in in Sheffield.
Council workers digging up a major roundabout in Sheffield city centre.
It was a curious moment …
September 26th, 2011
Two pneumatic drills being used to breakup concrete at a construction site with a compressor running in the background.
August 5th, 2011
Recording of a pneumatic drill in the street in London
August 16th, 2010