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Harvard Square, Cambridge at morning in light rain: a curved brick path to a bay-windowed brick hall, wet leaves scattered across the lawn.
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Walking in Light Rain at Harvard in Boston, MA (Binaural City Sounds) [4K Rain Ambience ASMR]

Autumn · Rain · 19 min · February 2022

Light rain at Harvard Square on an autumn morning. Not the storm kind — the kind you can walk in bare-headed for a block before deciding it counts. The route stays close to the university, and the rain keeps a quiet ledger against it. Morning here has a particular economy: the square not yet crowded, the sound of the city arriving in pieces. The microphones were binaural, out in the weather with everything else, so what reaches you is placed — footsteps under you, rain just above you, the city somewhere off to one side minding its own business. Filmed in 4K, at walking pace. The original notes call Harvard one of the most famous colleges in Boston to walk around — the geography is off by a river, and the fame is beside the point. The point is the rain, and having somewhere old to be out in it.

Video poster: Harvard Square, Cambridge at morning in light rain: a curved brick path to a bay-windowed brick hall, wet leaves scattered across the lawn.
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Best with headphones — the audio is true binaural. Watch on YouTube (recommended on TV).

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