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Harvard Square, Cambridge at night in rain: open iron gates and rain-slick brick lit by storefront windows
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Walking in the Rain at Harvard | Binaural City Sounds [4K Rain Ambience ASMR]

Winter · Rain · 1 hr 6 min · January 2023

Just before midnight, in the rain, at Harvard. The walk crosses the university campus while it sleeps, comes out through Harvard Square, and then takes the bridge over the Charles to the Boston side. Binaural sound throughout: rain first, and behind it the particular quiet a university keeps at night. The rain carries it — through the campus, through the square, and out over the river, where Boston waits on the far bank with its lights on. People put walks like this on to study or fall asleep, and a campus at midnight in the rain may be the most studious sound there is. But it also holds up simply as a walk — one night, one route, one city handing you across the water to another.

Video poster: Harvard Square, Cambridge at night in rain: open iron gates and rain-slick brick lit by storefront windows

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

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