Sounds

The texture of a sound can be manipulated in multiple ways. One of the most prominent manipulated sounds is the sound of the subway, from above ground. The texture of the sound of the subway underground is crisp and not interfered with by anything however it is accompanied with the culmination of sounds coming from all the subway riders and the announcer. From above ground the texture of the sound of the subway is muffled by the concrete and asphalt which is able to keep almost the entire sound of the subway underground except for that high pitch whine the train makes when it stops and starts. I like this sound most in the morning because the sound of train which comes off like it's trying so hard to move thousands of pounds of human flesh whereas in my case my I'm still in bed so it makes me feel kinda bad but it truly pressures me to get up out of bed every morning. The sound of my alarm clock is something my brain registers as something I can just set again for another 40 minutes of sleep but the way they sound of the subway makes me feel is unique to the subway because it is a certain type of morning guilt (a if I'm working hard in the morning so should you) that is the perfect form of pressure to push me to get up and do things. My opinions of the city symphony are harsh, NYC is a really noisy city and you can almost always hear construction somewhere. My favorite symphony is 18 miles north up the Hudson Valley, this is where the symphony feels like it has been organized by nature itself, the sporadic sound of the leaves picking their rustled selves up in the wind, the slow consistent southward flow of the river, the multitude of birds singing, and if it's warm there will always be one lawn mower somewhere. These are the sounds I usually hear around Tarrytown.