You are listening to youarelistening.to

Roman posted on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 | Uncategorized

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe you’ve noticed some strange sounds of police band chatter on the Remix. Those are samples from my current audio obsession youarelistening.to. I produced a story about the site for my own radio show 99% Invisible a few weeks back. You Are Listening to Los Angeles appeared online on March 6, 2011 and I was hooked instantly. The combination of the police scanner and ambient music is an intriguing, and distinctly live, experience (not unlike Remix- it’s a stream, it keeps going). URL2LA’s other appeal is its simple and elegant execution. There are three component parts: a police radio stream from Radio Reference (radioreference.com), a pre-screened ambient music playlist from SoundCloud, and a cool photo from Flickr. Each element is from some other source, that never could have envisioned that this is the way their content would be used. I took little samples of the LA, SF, Montreal and Deep Thoughts stream and cut them up into Remix interstitials. They are a little window into stories floating by in the air all around us.