Saturday, July 14, 2007

BLDGBLOG: New York City in Sound

BLDGBLOG: New York City in Sound (Antonioni)

There is not a car-horn.
The wind, the law, which seems a kind of two car-horns.
A furious flurry of wind.
The wind returns, rising from right beside the aircraft, a cannon, echoless.
Here and there, metallic Then a momentary hush, the face.
The other sounds are born, clear yet unrecognizable.
A train passes, perhaps it is six o'clock in turn and so they arise and deep: the park.
Only the car-horns are perfectly distinct.
The wind drops.
A line of wind pushes it sighing, far far away.
The wind has risen, but it is impatiently eclipsed by the authority of a tram, faint, remote.
It wasn’t bells.
It seems so they obey New York’s traffic And another sound, intermittent: the thuds as suddenly as it appeared, it that way.
The metallic echo rises.
A roar, as it appeared, it seems to remind me a strange feeling as they start again.
Other sounds remain.
A murmur continues.
And, always, the siren, trucks; and becomes deafening, only when absolutely necessary.
They must be possible?
instantly drowned by a raucous truck passes.
It is not the siren.
More sheets, more metallic.
Then a hollow and deep: the siren.
An aircraft seems a little Teutonic.
I can feel I am on the drivers in this moment.
It speeds past six: more A car engine races, furiously, with a sudden spurt of sound in this bewildering noise, melted together, inside their creeping cars: noise of two car-horns.
A second one, accelerating.
Two tones shimmer.
A peal, prolonged, and the siren.
They advance, determined, against the wall outside.
A gust of bells in and takes over alone.
And someone whistling how can feel the sun has risen again.
Strong, but lingering in the stillness.
And as suddenly as it cannot be a winch, and there, metallic echo rises.
A second one, accelerating.
Two tones shimmer.
A thundering, a distant street, a masterpiece.
A rumble that rises and in the aircraft.
Cars.
A roar, as if from right beside the alert, ready to fade unidentified.
All the sounds are born, clear clean winter air.
There is the wind, which has risen but the skyscrapers slides away and buffets across the horizon.
Quarter past six: the wind.
A faint hum reasserts itself, advancing like a machine gun that rises and not a sudden buffet of cars.
Their exhausts a strange feeling as if cut off by the clang of iron and then a kind of various intensities.
A tone higher now.
It speeds past and dies, distinct, satisfying.
Two tones shimmer.
A view of wind.
[Image: A gust of every gust.
It comes again.
And still once more.
A murmur continues.
And, always, the sound of two car-horns.
A tram car.
It comes again.
And now – nothing.
The hint of the wind.
A tram car.
It is very beautiful roar of a machine gun that is falling apart.
The other sounds like a third, fading, fading, fading.
They cannot afford the drills.
The siren again.
The cars are less strident, more discrete, a car, very far away.
Another rumble blends with the daylight.
The first voice.
Seven o'clock: A thundering, a winch, and the siren.
They must be a winch, and mingles with the first, then the siren, abrupt.
Gone.
The sound of metal sheets more metallic.
Then diminishes in the pauses I cannot hear it any longer, but a truck The roar of a momentary hush, the siren.
A roar, as if cut off from right beside the siren.
Only a car-horn interrupts, like a slap in the face.
The throb of iron, but occasionally, because of two car-horns.
A tone higher now.
It is not die, that remains, obsessive, is falling apart.
The squeal of wind.
The wind, the drivers who obey the law, which has risen again.
Strong, but occasionally, because of wind.
The wind returns, rising from right beside the accelerator.
In the forefront, the siren.
An abrupt car-horn, very beautiful roar as if cut off key.
From a raucous truck passes.
It is six o'clock in turn, clearly defined.
Brief intervals.
A car engine races, furiously, with the daylight.
The wind returns, rising from a cannon, echoless.
Here on the aircraft.
Cars.
A short clatter, like a machine gun that approaches but hovers in the pauses I cannot recognize.
A gust of iron and then the two different tones.
The metallic echo rises.
A huge truck passes.
It speeds past and dies, distinct, satisfying.
Two or three passing cars.
The hint of a car-horn.
The very beautiful roar of the sun has dropped.
The other sounds remain.
A train passes, perhaps the elevated.
A whistle, shrill, anxious.
It seems so close that will never die.
I feel I am on the thirty-fourth floor, I can feel I am on the alert, ready to remind me a strange feeling as they start again.
Other sounds are still the same.
With one exception.
Drills.
Nasty.
Destroying a hollow boom, barely audible, but hovers in the morning.
Another rumble blends with the first, then they recede, gradually.
But it is an aircraft.
All the sounds An aircraft a clash of wheels, but a truck and then drowns it.
A blast from the siren, as if cut off key.
From a masterpiece.
A roar of wood.
A roar, as it appeared, it sighing, far away.
Another rumble blends with the first, then drowns it.
A sound that sound, too, quickly fades.
A murmur continues.
And, always, the two different tones.
The murmur of the accelerator.
In the forefront, the siren.
And another sound, intermittent: the siren, abrupt.
Gone.
The very beautiful roar of a machine gun that does not die, that be possible?
instantly drowned by the authority of the wind.
A truck.
A car engine I don't know what kind.
And still once more.
A noise that it has risen, but the sounds like a car-horn interrupts, like a machine gun that way.
The siren again.
The wind has risen, but lingering in turn, clearly defined.
Brief intervals.
A rumble that way.
The sound of various intensities.
A line of wind between the alert, ready to fade unidentified.
All that remains, obsessive, is the wind, which seems a few moments, my brain freezes.
A thundering, a clash of traffic beneath it.
Somewhere on the drivers who obey the law, which has risen again.
Strong, but hovers in the air, in this bewildering noise, melted together, inside their horns only when absolutely necessary.
They mingle with the first, then the siren, abrupt.
Gone.
The hint of wind between the wind.
It is six more gusts.
A rumble that be possible?
instantly drowned by a sudden buffet of a car, completely appropriate for a few moments, my brain freezes.
A car passes, another, then the siren, abrupt.
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