The Overnightscape Underground

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01-09 Place Sounds: Audio Street Fair Blues (6/11/07) (20:05)
Day 1 (Dec 2007) – Track 09 – 1:55 AM (1:55:44)

Ambient audio of a street fair in Times Square, NYC.

(full description below, and in lyrics tag of MP3 file)

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01-09 Place Sounds: Audio Street Fair Blues (6/11/07) (20:05)
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Ambient audio of a street fair in Times Square, NYC.
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Day 1 (Dec 2007) – Track 09 – 1:55 AM (1:55:44)
The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) – “An audio world to discover and explore.”
Created by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) in New Jersey, USA
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Recorded in Times Square, NYC on 6/11/07. Originally released on StationUnlimited.com (release #74, June 19, 2007).
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On Monday, June 11, 2007 I was walking through Times Square in NYC and I saw a street fair called “Taste of Times Square”. Iwent went for 2 blocks on 46th St. from Times Square to 9th Ave. I walked the full length of it and realized it would make a great “Place Sounds” piece (a recording of an audio environment). So I started recording and heading back through the fair.

Unfortunately, things didn’t work out like I planned. First of all a lot of the musicians I had seen on the first walk thru were taking their breaks. Then it started to rain… lightly at first and then it turned into a real downpour. And then I realized I had pressed pause by accident and lost a lot of the stuff I was recording.

This piece is the final result – the first in the “Place Sounds” series. I look forward to recording more “Place Sounds” in the future – it is certainly a different kind of audio content than what people are used to, but in the right frame of mind such stuff can be very enjoyable and intriguing to listen to.
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Topics: Intro, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, song “Celebration”, world music style singer, Chef Mark, blues band, latin music band, guitar player, police radio, whistle, radio station playing an ad, car horns, bluegrass band, “that’ll be perfect”, Frank sees the recorder was paused, description of what happened, the remaining audio walking in the rain, radio station playing song, drumming, world music, doo wop singers, and the conclusion.
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License for the audio contained in this file AND for The Overnightscape Underground text and graphics associated with this track (embedded in the MP3 file and on the website onsug.com): Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Attribution: Include this entire text description.
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filename: onsug_day01_09_ps_fair.mp3 / 18.5 MB / 128 kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo / ID3 v2.2 / name: 01-09 Place Sounds: Audio Street Fair Blues (6/11/07) / artist: The Overnightscape Underground /  album: Day 01 (Dec 2007) – onsug.com / year: 2007 / genre: New Time Radio / tags: overnightscape underground, onsug, overnightscape, ons, newtimeradio, new time radio, podcast, podcasting, internet talk radio, new jersey, new york city, nj, nyc
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The Overnightscape Underground is a companion project to The Overnightscape (theovernightscape.com), an Internet radio show hosted by Frank since March 2003.
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