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Harvard Yard at dusk in rain: figures with umbrellas passing the brick gate above wet red pavement
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[4K] Walking at Harvard University - Rainy Day ASMR - Cambridge, MA - Binaural Audio

Summer · Rain · 1 hr 0 min · July 2023

A rainy day at Harvard University in Cambridge, walked at dusk, when the colonial street lamps on the old brick buildings start to come on. The route traces the perimeter of Harvard Yard — an hour of red brick and wet pavement, rain landing on the umbrella overhead, recorded binaurally from under that same umbrella. Dusk in the rain is a specific hour: the sky loses its light faster than usual, the lamps take over early, and a campus this old wears both well. Harvard gets called picturesque, world-famous, all of it — but in the rain, at the closing end of the day, it's mostly just wet brick, lamplight, and rain on an umbrella. That's the version this walk keeps. City and rain sounds sit exactly where they were recorded. For sleep, for study — fitting, given where it was filmed — or for the walk itself.

Video poster: Harvard Yard at dusk in rain: figures with umbrellas passing the brick gate above wet red pavement

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

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