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I know that you would think that music and urban space do not have all that much in common but I think somewhere deep down in the way good music pulls you in and gets you to dream in a way you weren’t sure you could, good livable urban spaces started in the same place. It’s passion spilling into the world in different ways.
I was digging through some old camera equipment we had laying around and found these awesome studio headphones, I tried them on and plugged them into my ipod with the new Radiohead album and I swear it was like listening to it for the first time, all the subtle background noises that made up the sound were not only there but made what I was hearing so much more alive. I wish there was some way to put on some city headphones and see a place in the way it was really intended to be.
Next time you go for a walk in your favorite part of town put on your city headphones and look around. Stop in one place and see if you can hear what it is that makes that place feel how it does…Look for the passion, listen for the subtle noises that make up the sound.
What do you see?
Levi
4 responses so far ↓
1 wburg // Aug 22, 2008 at 12:26 pm
“Industrial music for industrial people” was the motto of an organization that was once dedicated to the idea of making music for the modern industrial setting, even if neither the city they interacted with nor the music they made could be easily called pretty.
The city sings a constant song, whether the tune is a breakneck guitar solo, a pounding bass rhythm, or an introspective breakdown, depending on what corner you’re standing on and which way your ears are aimed. Next time the train goes by, stand fairly close (not too close) and close your eyes and listen to the song that the great metal beast sings to you.
2 Phillip // Aug 22, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I think Sacramento sings U2. And it sings it best when I ride my bike along its grid streets slowly….
3 dustin // Aug 22, 2008 at 10:14 pm
When doing the same, I hear Badly Drawn Boy’s - The Shining
4 Mike // Aug 23, 2008 at 3:22 pm
R St plays Radiohead. Perfect in a raw humm of a refrigerator kind of way…
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