Riding BART

MC Soleil and I are taking White Noise Lounge on the road—to France! So posting might be a bit irregular, depending on the good sounds we find along the way.

To get in the spirit of travel, I took a recording on BART between Daly City and South San Francisco, on the way to the airport. It’s not as “pure” as I’d like, you can hear people talking and the occasional cough, but I suppose it adds something to its vérité. For anyone who’s never ridden on BART before, it can be surprisingly screechy, especially at high speed underground. Gives me a newfound appreciation for the Paris metro’s tires.

Inside a BART car

Listen to: Riding BART

This post originally appeared on White Noise Lounge.

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I wish there was a way to listen to this on a loop! Of all of your white noise, RIDING BART is my favorite :) I just play it over and over and over while I work.

Melanee, that’s funny and slightly odd (but in a good way). Earplugs would be my usual response to BART, but to each her own. I’m guessing you could configure your media player or iPod to play it continuously, no? That would be essentially a loop…

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