One of the many many things I miss about city life is the wonderful sound each city makes. Each city seems to have their own unique sound and even neighborhoods have their own sound. Take Lisbon, Portugal for example. The traditional Fado concert doesn’t really get started until 2 or 3 Am. And it’s common practice to have them in open venues… like the street! Or take my experience in Vienna, Austria. I almost never closed by windows unless it was really really cold. My neighborhood had a vibrant, often questionable night scene (nothing dangerous or anything, it’s Austria people!) and it was common to hear what my Spanish apartment-mate would call low-brow South American Spanish from midnight to the early AM. Add the fact that one of Vienna’s busiest train stations was less than a kilometer away and it was a little loud for some. Not for me. I don’t speak Spanish, never mind understand it, but I really miss listening to the raw sounding conversations of the local night population. Some people call that sound noise, but I’ll argue it’s really just spoken blues. Don’t get me wrong, I totally respect people enjoying the quiet sounds of the countryside, but I like the rawness of city-music. Well, after spending some time looking for a hi-fi recording of a city, I discovered a blog for an NYC photographer/videographer who is using his Canon 7d to record video of the Sounds of NYC. It made my day.
NYC Sounds:LIVE underground:Canon 7D,1080/24p from Mike Kobal on Vimeo.
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