Knäppingsborg Christmas shopping soundscape.

This is the sound of a quite popular market area in central Norrköping, and there is a bustling crowd ready to go shopping! ...or lack thereof.

The sounds is recorded around 10:30 and shops have been open for about thirty minutes, but most of the Christmas shopping in Sweden is made in the afternoon when everyone gets off work - including me. So this is simply a quiet marketplace in the days bef…