SoundWalk

A Music that Water makes.

I live in 79^th Street in between York and East End Avenues. I love where I live. My apartment is surrounded by water, the East River. I love being in a place, where is close to water; the ocean, the river, the pond, the brook, and a drop of tear. Water is an amazing source of sound we hear. It seems not, but water has many different sounds.

I waited a rainy day. In a small apartment, when you in deep silence, water tell you as soon as rain starts. I hear the raining sound, which drops of rain hit on air conditioning, its outdoors side fan cover, the ac at outside makes a tin sound when rain drops hit its case. The sound of the raindrop is very rhythmical. Although there aren’t any organized pitches for this raindrop sound it is enjoyable, because they are natural and unpredictable.

At the outside of my apartment, I can walk along with the East River. I closed my eyes and listened carefully at sounds that I can hear; from small sounds to big sounds (not the loudness). These small sounds are more interesting than big sounds. The big sound in New York City is probably noises made by cars and people. But the small sounds are; made by animals and human; especially in a rainy day, you can hear dogs are shaking their body to take off water on their fur. And jogging people make special sound only in a rainy day, when they running over dirt, the wet-dirt make sound with the runner’s shoe sole, the friction of the shoe sole surface and wet-dirt is more regular pitch and stable frequency because these runners are trying to maintain their speed.

These sounds I hear in a rainy days. Which gives me a calmness and peacefulness.