{"id":709,"date":"2010-01-27T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant2\/2010\/01\/sound-the-city-deep-listening.html"},"modified":"2010-01-27T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:21:00","slug":"sound-city-deep-listening-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/2010\/01\/sound-city-deep-listening-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Sound &amp; the City: Deep Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On My Rooftop<\/p>\n<p>In No Particular Order<\/p>\n<p>The constant low pitched whir of the kitchen exhaust piped from the restaurant below.<\/p>\n<p>The random short whoops of a police siren.<\/p>\n<p>One long whoop whooop.<\/p>\n<p>Buses stopping and going, compressing and decompressing to lower their steps for people to enter and exit. The beep that accompanies it before the doors open and close.<\/p>\n<p>Truck idle while parked, continuously throughout and just behind my right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Planes going to and fro.<\/p>\n<p>The rustle of the Christmas lights against the coarse rooftop floor.<\/p>\n<p>Cars moving at nominal speed<\/p>\n<p>Squeaking car brakes.<\/p>\n<p>Wind swirling about.<\/p>\n<p>The ding sound of a text message notice on my phone.<\/p>\n<p>A car passing with music playing, possibly a ballad &#8211; and it faintly fading.<\/p>\n<p>Another car passing with music louder, maybe a pop song, can&#8217;t it&#8217;s hard to tell.<\/p>\n<p>The church bells of my phone alarm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/roof.m4a\">Rooftop Recording(m4a)<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/roof.mp3\">Rooftop Recording(mp3)<\/a><br \/>(Apparently it didn&#8217;t record while I was sitting still &#038; listening the first time, so I make a 2nd attempt while I was writing down what I heard).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/sound_roof6.JPG\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/sound_roof.JPG\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/sound_roof2.JPG\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/sound_roof3.JPG\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/sound_roof4.JPG\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/sound_roof5.JPG\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/sound_roof7.JPG\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/ITP\/SOUND\/sound_roof8.JPG\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On My Rooftop In No Particular Order The constant low pitched whir of the kitchen exhaust piped from the restaurant below. The random short whoops of a police siren. One long whoop whooop. Buses stopping and going, compressing and decompressing to lower their steps for people to enter and exit. The beep that accompanies it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itp","category-soundcity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}