The texture of the city sound for me usually ranges
from shoes walking on the hard
pavement to the loud beeping of cars. Early in the
morning you can hear these sounds very
clearly since barley any other activity is going on.
The sound of shoes stomping on the pavement
is very prevalent since most people go jogging early
in the day. Later in the day you can hear
more people having conversations with other people.
Usually when go further into the upper
parts of the city you can hear more people talking at
once. It becomes a big cluster of sound
when you enter these large gatherings of people in
places such as time square. At night the sound
becomes louder as more people usually get together
with each other at night than in the say.
Areas that don’t have
many people talking would include residential neighborhoods that
are mostly parks and apartment buildings. You can
usually hear the sound of small children
yelling and playing along with the sounds of rusty
playground equipment such as see-saws and
swings. At night these areas are completely quite aside
from the sound of some of the local
wildlife like the chirping of crickets and cicadas. Special
sound marks that can be found in the
neighborhood I live in would be the local ice cream
trucks. The special melody the trucks play
don’t play anywhere else so you know when one is
coming. It gives off a soothing and catchy
rhythm that would make most people want to check out
where that sound is coming from.
