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Midnight Rainy Walk through Cambridge | Binaural Rain | Sounds for Study and Sleep | ASMR

Summer · Rain · 52 min · June 2022

Midnight in Cambridge, in the rain. The route is simple and takes most of an hour: Harvard Square to Central Square, then down to Memorial Drive, where the walk ends along the Charles River looking across at the Boston skyline. The recording is binaural throughout — natural rainfall, and underneath it whatever the city still has going at that hour. Rain at midnight sounds different from rain in the day; there is less to compete with it. The recording keeps that — footsteps, weather, the occasional interruption, and long stretches where the rain has the street to itself. Camera and microphones went out together, for whoever needs an hour of this: sleep, study, or the far side of a long day. The walk ends at the water, with the skyline across it. Most good night walks end at water.

Video poster: Cambridge at midnight in rain: a graffiti-covered alley with wet painted brick shining under lamplight

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

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