Meditations Of Metropolis Rob Rodrigues

I started publishing these episodes to document the sounds of New York City, especially the crazy and annoying ones. Searching for peace and intrigue in insanity and chaos. Reconciling my longterm love/hate relationship with NYC by finding beauty where most people hear grating noise.

Fourteenth Journey is clearly a departure. On a recent trip to South Florida I decided to spend time during morning walks on the beach capturing the sounds of nature. Mainly the waves and birds. The result is this peaceful sleep meditation with no jarring surprises or transitions. Just pleasant sounds to transport you to a nap on the beach on a warm day.

— Headphones are a must for the full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into sandy slumber. —  Rob Rodrigues.  Contact: rob@all-oneuniverse.com --- Instagram: @beach.108

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Its been a highly dynamic Fall season during this tumultuous year in New York City. This episode flows together in five sections:

1) TALK TALK - Verbal exchanges and monologues in Manhattan.
2) BROADWAY BOMBS - When a large political protest march and an illegal skateboard race converge at Broadway and Broome street, chaos ensues with thousands of skaters and demonstrators. The traffic snarls as a result and the audio is outrageous.
3) THE ELECTION - Sounds from inside a polling station to the reaction on the streets when the Presidential election results were announced. Cars driving on the Westside Highway and people gathered in Union Square, the excitement and celebration translates well in these clips.
4) SONIC INDUSTRY - Pings, pangs, vibrations, and tones. The sounds of workers and machines working around the boroughs.
5) PARK LIFE - NYC parks are always a gathering place for people from all walks of life. Multiple layers of sound blend together as a montage to create a peaceful finale. 

— Headphones are a must for the full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. —  Rob Rodrigues. 
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Audio clips from the warmest months, July and August. Rolling around New York City on my skateboard never fails, I always come across the craziest sounds. Whether it be the noise of city parks, random yelling, activist chanting, or industrial banging and humming. NYC is always producing an original soundtrack. — Headphones are a must for a full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. — Contact: rob@all-oneuniverse.com Instagram: @beach.108

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Audio observations of NYC/Manhattan from mid-May through June 2020. A spectrum of sounds that came into my apartment or passed as I rolled around the city streets.
— Headphones are a must for a full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. — Contact: rob@all-oneuniverse.com Instagram: @beach.108

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— I recently discovered that the hundred or so metal tables lining the riverfront walkway in New York City’s East River Park unintentionally make melodious tones when hit in the proper way. A pleasant surprise that became a fascination. Each table seems to produce a unique resonating gong-like sound depending on the place, intensity, and frequency of how and what they are struck with. — The tenth brief but intense journey highlights these “banging tables” along with the other background noises that come with life in NYC during the global pandemic lockdown. The city parks that have remained open are a place to exercise and get some fresh air. They are also heavily policed to enforce social distancing and buzzing with joggers. It was quite humorous trying to be inconspicuous while capturing high quality audio clips for this episode. — Headphones are a must for a full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. — Contact: rob@all-oneuniverse.com Instagram: @beach.108

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- Being cooped up in a small New York City apartment for three weeks can make a person extra sensitive to the tapestry of odd sounds common objects can produce. This episode is a musical composition of sorts though A-Tonal & A-Rhythmic. All sounds were recorded in a NYC apartment, they are either coming in through the window from the street or audio clips of the sounds that everyday household items create. The stay-at-home social distancing initiative due to the COVID-19 pandemic has helped to make the usual “sleep meditations” produced for this podcast way more tense and agitated for the 9th installment. HAUNTING. - Headphones are a must for a full stereo experience. Close your eyes, relax, let your ears take it in, and feel free to ease into city slumber. Contact: rob@all-oneuniverse.com Instagram: @beach.108

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