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Beacon Hill, Boston at afternoon after rain: a narrow brick-paved lane between rowhouses, still dark with wet
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[4K] Walking After Rain in Boston, MA | Binaural City Sounds | ASMR Ambience

Spring · Rain · 1 hr 12 min · April 2022

Afternoon on Beacon Hill, just after rain. A rain walk is one thing; this is the hour behind it, when the weather has moved on and the neighborhood starts filling back in with its ordinary sounds. The binaural recording carries that shift — what rainfall remains, and the city underneath it, resuming. One spring afternoon in Boston is all this is: camera and binaural mics carried through Beacon Hill, on location, nothing added after. The walk takes its time — a little over an hour of it. People fall asleep and write papers to this sort of thing, and the hour after rain may be better for that than the storm itself: quieter, less insistent, with more room in it. But it stands on its own as a record of a place. Beacon Hill, spring, the rain just ended, and an afternoon going on about its business.

Video poster: Beacon Hill, Boston at afternoon after rain: a narrow brick-paved lane between rowhouses, still dark with wet

Best with headphones — the audio is true binaural. Watch on YouTube (recommended on TV).

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