SoundWalk
Living next to a busy turnpike, you’d come across a lot of familiar sounds browsing the city. The shy hum of car engines merge together as a deafening roar as they speed down the asphalt. And with a hospital and a firehouse both within arm’s reach, sirens would constantly dopple passing through the local streets. Birds would yell over roofs, like how birds from New York often do. They wouldn’t always chirp like how you would imagine them to, but they would gargle, screech, and sometimes it may even seem like they time their calls like a periodic alarm. Occasionally, a tree branch or two would shake in the wind, but what’s more deeply felt would be the leaves gliding across the sidewalk, or crunching under peoples’ feet. However, with all the action taking place, the scene is rather quiet. Paired with the ambient sound of cars passing by on the turnpike, planes flying overhead add their engines to the mix, enclosing the neighborhood in the sounds of people just trying to get from po...