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Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by philsnow »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #41
pdknsk wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is very strange to me. How can it not distract? Some guy beats up his wife, or worse, and knowing so helps you coding? I would have never guessed it. I understand the notion about a certain mood, as in Blade Runner, but that's carefully arranged fiction. This is real life. (The last sentence probably reads more dramatic than intended.)

Air Traffic Control feeds can be easier to let blur, since they lack any sense of drama. They do tend to be less busy late at night, though.

It's noon somewhere.

(I don't know where you get your ATC feeds but maybe you can get ones from across the world)

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by oe »

pdknsk wrote: post #37
aric wrote: post #23

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It invokes a mood. It distills a spirit of night and cities that never sleep. Urgent events from a police scanner play upon a feeling of social connectedness. Combining that with ethereal music plays upon senses of tranquility, danger, peace, haunting, calms before storms, and life transpiring. Dramas like Blade Runner, The Killing, and True Detective, as a few examples, achieve many of their most beautiful moments t…

This is very strange to me. How can it not distract? Some guy beats up his wife, or worse, and knowing so helps you coding? I would have never guessed it. I understand the notion about a certain mood, as in Blade Runner, but that's carefully arranged fiction. This is real life. (The last sentence probably reads more dramatic than intended.)

For me the police radio is usually just unintelligible chatter with lots of distortion and noise. I could maybe understand a word or two, but that would require concentrating on it. Now it just creates an atmosphere.

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by xtrmntr »

numbers wrote: post #56
xtrmntr wrote: post #47

Thanks for listening to my site everyone. It's crazy that 3+ years after launch it's still finding new listeners every day! Feel free to @ me on twitter with any questions (@idontlikewords)

When the music player slides away, how do I bring it back?

Use the "RSS" icon in the top nav to slide it in and out. Not the most intuitive, I know. But in keeping with the minimalism... =)

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by d23 »

mkal_tsr wrote: post #3

[ SomaFM SF 10-33] http://somafm.com/sf1033/ Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio traffic. [ SomaFM Mission Control ] http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/ A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.

So bizarre. I remember listening to Groove Salad when I was probably 14 years old. Now here I am, 11 years later, living in SF, and I get reminded of it on a random HN post.

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by bigiain »

chillax wrote: post #59
bigiain wrote: post #14

Ohhh, I like this one: http://youarelistening.to/numbers

Some background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Yeah, I've got The Conet Project 4CD box set.

A guy at Aquarius Records in San Francisco convinced me to "just have a listen" back in '98 or '99, and I bought them _immediately_

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by johnchristopher »

mkal_tsr wrote: post #27
johnchristopher wrote: post #26

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Have you noticed some changes in sf1033 in the last 9 months ? It feels now as if the mixes are deliberately more musical than ambient.

I personally don't really listen to sf1033 at all, but figured I'd toss it in since I figured HN probably has a skew toward that area ;-) For more ambient, I'm usually listening to recommendations by, * http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/ * Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/headphonecommute / spotify:user:headphonecommute

My mistake, I meant ambient as in "ambiance sound" not the musical style (less chatter, more music with melody).

But excellent recommendation nonetheless (listening to the flashbulb on reviews.headphonecommute.com) !

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by yoctonaut »

This is a really great idea--bravo, xtrmntr! Are you traversing a SoundCloud playlist, or pulling randomly based on tags? It's quite cool.

If the police feeds are too dramatic, there's that excellent (archival) NASA audio one as well: http://youarelistening.to/nasa

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by yoctonaut »

fumar wrote: post #42

This is really cool. Makes me feel productive. I have been working on ambient music that allows me to work and stay focused. Just released some of my first tunes here: http://www.vpena.com

Very nice work--great textures and atmosphere. Thanks for sharing it!

If you're ever inclined toward a productivity challenge, you might want to check out http://weeklybeats.com (not my site, but I am a participant). The idea is to write, record, and upload one piece per week. (My stuff's at http://weeklybeats.com/#/onezero/ )

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by algo »

bigiain wrote: post #66
chillax wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Yeah, I've got The Conet Project 4CD box set. A guy at Aquarius Records in San Francisco convinced me to "just have a listen" back in '98 or '99, and I bought them _immediately_

It's available to download at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ird059
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