Its been a highly dynamic Fall season during this tumultuous year in New York City. This episode flows together in five sections:

1) TALK TALK - Verbal exchanges and monologues in Manhattan.

2) BROADWAY BOMBS - When a large political protest march and an illegal skateboard race converge at Broadway and Broome street, chaos ensues with thousands of skaters and demonstrators. The traffic snarls as a result and the audio is outrageous.

3) THE ELECTION - Sounds from inside a polling station to the reaction on the streets when the Presidential election results were announced. Cars driving on the Westside Highway and people gathered in Union Square, the excitement and celebration translates well in these clips.

4) SONIC INDUSTRY - Pings, pangs, vibrations, and tones. The sounds of workers and machines working around the boroughs.

5) PARK LIFE - NYC parks are always a gathering place for people from all walks of life. Multiple layers of sound blend together as a montage to create a peaceful finale. 

— Headphones are a must for the full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. —  Rob Rodrigues. 

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Audio clips from the warmest months, July and August. Rolling around New York City on my skateboard never fails, I always come across the craziest sounds. Whether it be the noise of city parks, random yelling, activist chanting, or industrial banging and humming. NYC is always producing an original soundtrack. — Headphones are a must for a full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. — Contact: [email protected] Instagram: @beach.108

Audio observations of NYC/Manhattan from mid-May through June 2020. A spectrum of sounds that came into my apartment or passed as I rolled around the city streets.

— Headphones are a must for a full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. — Contact: [email protected] Instagram: @beach.108

— I recently discovered that the hundred or so metal tables lining the riverfront walkway in New York City’s East River Park unintentionally make melodious tones when hit in the proper way. A pleasant surprise that became a fascination. Each table seems to produce a unique resonating gong-like sound depending on the place, intensity, and frequency of how and what they are struck with. — The tenth brief but intense journey highlights these “banging tables” along with the other background noises that come with life in NYC during the global pandemic lockdown. The city parks that have remained open are a place to exercise and get some fresh air. They are also heavily policed to enforce social distancing and buzzing with joggers. It was quite humorous trying to be inconspicuous while capturing high quality audio clips for this episode. — Headphones are a must for a full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. — Contact: [email protected] Instagram: @beach.108

- Being cooped up in a small New York City apartment for three weeks can make a person extra sensitive to the tapestry of odd sounds common objects can produce. This episode is a musical composition of sorts though A-Tonal & A-Rhythmic. All sounds were recorded in a NYC apartment, they are either coming in through the window from the street or audio clips of the sounds that everyday household items create. The stay-at-home social distancing initiative due to the COVID-19 pandemic has helped to make the usual “sleep meditations” produced for this podcast way more tense and agitated for the 9th installment. HAUNTING. - Headphones are a must for a full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. Contact: [email protected] Instagram: @beach.108

- As the month of March kicks into gear in NYC, daylight increases along with the temperature. This effects the psychology of people ready for warmer weather. - What better time than now to go through all of the unused audio clips recorded during the winter months and assemble them into a tapestry of sonic madness. - Predominantly featured throughout are the haunting sounds of a metal table in the East River Park. To my surprise when banged and drummed on in various ways, delightful yet scary sounds are produced. The table clips appear several times at different levels with complimentary (and not so complimentary) overdubs. - Headphones are a must for the full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. - contact: [email protected]

- I have no formal knowledge of meditation, yoga, or relaxation. But I do know that this piece speaks to me with those terms in mind. - Today is a big departure from the six previous journeys, it is a repetitive loop of two urban sounds that I recorded and assembled together with voice tones that answer to the sonic vibration. - As esoteric as this may sound, there is a beauty in the mechanical rawness. - The story is; I was walking by a Con Edison maintenance truck doing work on the street with tools feeding into a manhole cover. The truck was making a blaring noise, something that you would cringe at and hastily walk away from. I started to unconsciously hum a complimentary tone to the sound of the machine. That was my queue to record some of this “blaring loud noise”. I continued to hum and chant the tone for the rest of the afternoon. Finding a relaxing spirit at the root of an obnoxiously loud industrial sound, I was inspired to put this simple mix together and test it in my everyday life. - With the pattering of rain on concrete and the street machine layered beneath a repeating vocal hum, I have been using this piece for both still and moving meditation for the last month. The redundancy does not grow old, it has become a retreat synonymous with relaxation. - Hint; I tend to focus on the tone of the industrial sound, seeking to sync its sonic vibration with that of my body’s. - This chant is highly personal to me. I hope it inspires someone to find peacefulness in mundane or even annoying common sounds. - Contact: [email protected]

- Last Saturday’s predicted snowstorm turned out to be a bust. I still managed to take a walk in midtown and capture a few moments of powdered madness with interludes of peacefulness - Headphones are a must for the full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in and feel free to ease into city slumber. -

- After taking a holiday break in a tropical region, we are back for the New Year. Cathedral bells chime in the midnight hour on the 1st to start episode five. During the first few days of January I rode a cruiser skateboard through the streets of several Manhattan neighborhoods. The pace of the sound movement is greatly increased while navigating traffic. Things slow down only when stopped to reflect on something intriguing and how it blends in with the other city sounds that are always present in the background. - Headphones are a must for the full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber.