City Sounds: Real Street Ambience from Around the World (500 episodes)
By Robin Verrue
Categories: Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-Improvement
City Sounds: real street ambience recorded on location in cities around the world. Every episode takes you to one real place, in one real city, at one real hour, and lets you listen. No music, no host, no voices you can follow, no sirens. Just the city.Every city has its own sound. The trams of Lisbon grind and hum as they climb the hills of Alfama. The canals of Amsterdam lap softly against the quays while bicycles rattle over the bridges. Ferries rumble into the piers of Istanbul and Sydney at first light. Footsteps echo through the stone alleys of Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, the hutongs of Beijing wake up one bicycle at a time, and the great station hall of Antwerp breathes slowly late at night. City Sounds collects these moments, one city per episode, so you can hear what a place is really like when you stop and listen.Each episode is labelled with the city and the place where it was actually recorded. That is the whole idea of the show: the name on the episode is where the sound comes from. You will never hear the same recording under a different city name, and you will never get a generic urban loop dressed up with a famous name.What you will hearStreet ambience, squares, stations, trams, canals, harbours, riverside promenades, market streets and quiet night walks. Some episodes are walking recordings, where the scene changes gently around you as you move. Others are stationary, recorded from one spot while the city passes by, like sitting on a bench in a square and simply listening to the place around you. Episodes move through every hour of the day: dawn before the streets wake up, the easy rhythm of a weekday morning, the long middle of the afternoon, the soft exhale of the evening and the spacious calm of a city at night.What you will not hearNo music of any kind, including shop or street music. No identifiable speech, no host and no announcements. Sirens and sharp horn peaks are carefully edited out, because they are the sounds most likely to pull you…
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- City Sounds in New York: Greenwich Village Night Walk | Footsteps & Distant Traffic for Evening Wind-Down
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