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Copley Square, Boston at night in rain: streetlight and tower light reflecting in long streaks across the wet plaza by the library.
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Boston in 3D Audio - Walking in Rain 4K

Winter · Rain · 43 min · January 2023

A rainy night in Boston: Back Bay, Copley Square, and finally the Public Garden. Rain after dark does something to this city that dry weather won't — every light doubles itself on the pavement, and streets you know become a second, glassier version of themselves. Recorded with binaural microphones for a full three-dimensional sound: traffic to one side, rain overhead, footsteps underneath. Near the end, the route slips through an alleyway that opens straight into the Garden — the kind of passage you walk past a hundred times before you finally take it. I've been meaning to go back and film the long alleyways of Back Bay properly; this walk is the reason why. Filmed in high dynamic range at a slower, film-like frame rate, on location. For study, for sleep, or for the hour when you want the city without the day attached.

Video poster: Copley Square, Boston at night in rain: streetlight and tower light reflecting in long streaks across the wet plaza by the library.

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

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