For
World Listening Day 2013,
I thought I'd post something a little different from my usual
environmental recordings. This piece was recorded from the window of the
ACE Hotel, 20W 29th Street, New York City, just before 1am Sunday 24
February 2013. One first pass, it may seem like a typical city
soundscape. Traffic. Distant voices. Hum. However, to my ears it was
distinctly different to what I was familiar with. I live in a busy city,
Sydney, in Australia. I'm used to these sounds. But as I sat there
listening to these sounds, the subtle differences in the sounds, the
sources of which were all too familiar, from what my ears were
accustomed to sounded somehow new. Unique. I guess this taps into the
ideas behind World Listening Day, it isn't just the sounds, its what you
hear.
You can listen at Soundcloud
here.
