City Streets, City Sounds~
Fall 2025
Adobe Audition
This audio piece captures the atmosphere of a New York City street. The person recording is sitting close to the road, so the steady background is made up of cars rushing by, motorcycles roaring, and the constant movement of the city. Not far away, you can hear the liveliness of a playground, kids shouting, laughing, running around, and the creak of swings as they go back and forth. Layered on top of these sounds is the strumming of a street musician’s guitar and some music. The mix of traffic, children, and live music creates a snapshot of everyday city life. I used mainly prerecorded sounds, but I played the guitar myself.
Sounds used:
Poorly played guitar (the riff of Love Yourself by Justin Bieber and Rules by Doja Cat) by me
Ambulance Siren by stereobrother. Creative Commons 0. Freesound.org. Posted November 1st, 2018 – https://freesound.org/people/stereobrother/sounds/445344/
Manhattan Walk, Houston Junction.wav by petewyer2. Creative Commons 0. Freesound.org. Posted June 9th, 2022 – https://freesound.org/people/petewyer2/sounds/637295/
Swings.wav by UncleSigmund – Attribution 4.0. Freesound.org. December 8th, 2014 – https://freesound.org/people/UncleSigmund/sounds/257041/
Lots of children play in the city park atmo sound effect by Garuda1982 – Attribution 4.0. Freesound.org. April 24th, 2021 – https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/sounds/569329/
5. Dalnim Svetom by Andrey Petrov. Attribution 4.0. Free Music Archive. Sep 23, 2025 – https://freemusicarchive.org/music/andrey-petrov/single/dalnim-svetom/
OMG!! I loved the music with the background. When I close my eyes, I can picture a noisy street filled with the cheerful sound of music. It’s a moment of pure happiness.
Nice work, these sounds are well layered together, the edits are well done. The end result is very realistic and perfectly evokes the setting.