You Are Listening To Los Angeles
Oh, this is fantastic. A livestream of police reports from LA, and an ambient music soundscape behind that. A real-life Blade Runner playing right before your eyes. Check it out here.
You are listening to Los Angeles” streams live LAPD radio chatter over a background of Creative Commons-licensed ambient music from SoundCloud. It was created by web and video game producer Eric Eberhardt, and it is hypnotic, beautiful, and utterly compelling.
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To listen to it is to be plugged into the pulse of the city; lost in fragments of someone else’s story. Urgency alternates with frustration and low-level routine; some incidents are reported while others are resolved; and jaywalking tickets are issued in the same breath as lives are lost.
The creator explains here how he came up with the idea.
