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Boston Chinatown at 2 a.m. in rain: the gate arch strung with lights above wet pavement and banks of old snow.
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2AM Rain Walk to Chinatown | Binaural Sounds for Sleep | 4K ASMR Ambience

Winter · Rain · 32 min · July 2022

Two a.m., raining, winter. It begins on the Seaport Bridge and goes the whole way through to Chinatown — Boston at the hour when the city is mostly a rumor of itself. Rain at 2 a.m. sounds different from rain at noon: fewer things moving for it to land on, so it lands on everything else instead. What the city has left at that hour is carried by the binaural recording — rainfall, wet streets, whatever is still out and moving. Just over half an hour of this, filmed in 4K sharp enough to hold the wet asphalt. The description offers it for sleep, which makes sense. This is what the world sounds like while you are asleep, and some nights it helps to hear it firsthand.

Video poster: Boston Chinatown at 2 a.m. in rain: the gate arch strung with lights above wet pavement and banks of old snow.

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

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