About this first track, Brian wrote: "Living under the paving stones, consuming our refuse, and incubating our diseases, the city rat is a ubiquitous part of global, urban capitalism. The revulsion rats inspire actually speaks of our closeness to them—rattus norvegicus burrows through the supposed human / nature divide. And just as we continually negotiate our place in a dynamic city, so have rats developed elaborate social codes intertwined with urban architecture and geography.
We are not usually privy to the vocal address of one rat to another, however, as they primarily speak above the (20khz) threshold of human hearing. For Urban Intonation, I recorded rats at multiple sites in NYC with a custom ultrasonic microphone. I then resampled and pitch-shifted the result into the range of the human voice and mixed it for playback over a human public address system, repositioning rat noise in public space as something that is recognizable, if not intelligible, as speech."
That is absolutely wild. I got curious to see whether this fell within a cat's range of hearing, and apparently it does; cats can hear up to somewhere between 74 to 85 KHz. Run silent, run deep, rattos!
Well, Terminal A is on the the northside of the runways (for private and cargo flights, but has a convenient train/mass transit stop), and F is on the southside. So, one must go through a tunnel under the runways to get from one to the other. It sounds like we're in the tunnel connecting the two sides....
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