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This sounds so beautiful and desolate, reminding me of a combination of the first two tracks from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol 2, disc 2, in particul

This sounds so beautiful and desolate, reminding me of a combination of the first two tracks from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol 2, disc 2, in particular "Blue Calx" and "Parallel Stripes" starting from 40 seconds. [0] Thank you for sharing. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXBAU8HsAqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXBAU8HsAqk

bitcharmer 6y ago
I don't think SF residents are as thrilled. It's overwhelmingly loud.
- sevencolors 6y ago
  I imagine it’s just going to be ignored. Like the bart “screeching” they never fixed.
  - ketzo 6y ago
    That was such an insane thing to discover my first time on the BART. I’m sitting there thinking a catastrophic accident is about to occur, but everyone else is just on their phones... oh, that’s just the screech!
    - ljm 6y ago
      From a Londoner's perspective, this is giving me tortured flashbacks to travelling on the Jubilee Line. It's physically painful to hear once you start speeding up inside the tunnels.
      - dijit 6y ago
        A lot of the lines are like that, especially once it’s summer and you can barely survive without having the windows down. Dangerously loud. Although I also have sensitive ears. :/
      - rconti 6y ago
        With the Paris Metro using rubber tires on being super quiet, every time I use another subway, it blows my mind that these awful noises are tolerated.
      - leonroy 6y ago
        I travel on the Northern line on the London Underground to get to work and the sound of the trains nowdays hits 100dBA or more of extremely loud screeching: https://i.imgur.com/04YwBHJ.png https://i.imgur.com/04YwBHJ.png I went as far as lodging an official complaint and was told that to deal with capacity trains are running more often and faster than they have in the past, hence the increased noise. Furthermore due to the Northern Line having been built before environmental noise regulations were passed, it's exempted so Transport for London aren't planning on doing much about it. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon - between always on ear buds and mass transit noise we're risking a generation of kids suffering hearing loss well before their time.
  - pronoiac 6y ago
    It's gotten quieter since 2017 - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-noise-levels-decibels-trains-headphones-loud-13602734.php https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-noise-levels-dec...
    - mmanfrin 6y ago
      "BART says", but as of 6 months ago I was compelled to buy ear plugs for my commute. There's a stretch just before West Oakland (Westbound) that I'm near certain has given me ear damage.
      - floatingatoll 6y ago
        It used to be even worse.
      - bpicolo 6y ago
        I haven't lived in the Bay for a few years but this brings me flashbacks to that part of my commute.
  - calebio 6y ago
    Yup! Back when I was commuting daily, my watch would always alert me to 90dB+ noise on BART.
  - Nitramp 6y ago
    That's amazing. According to this article, bart is now moving to tapered wheels instead of plain cylindrical: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/11/17449460/bart-screen-conversion-wheel https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/11/17449460/bart-screen-convers... My understanding was that all rail systems since roughly forever use tapered wheels. Primarily to reduce wear, by having the tapered wheels self center instead of grinding against the track. It's really odd that they seem to just roll that out in 2017?
    - buzzkillington 6y ago
      It's great they are finally moving to the 19th century.
    - frosted-flakes 6y ago
      > unlike the cylindrical profile which again just steers with the flange basically rubbing against the edge of the railhead. That's crazy. That means that the wheels are actually slipping when going around a corner, because the wheels are all the same diameter. Unlike conical wheels, which are essentially self-steering. Here's a great explanation by Richard Feynman: https://youtu.be/WAwDvbIfkos https://youtu.be/WAwDvbIfkos How could the BART trains possibly have cylindrical wheels? Conical wheels have been used on trains for ages, so that's seems weird. But doing some research, it seems that, yes, they were cylindrical: > Queensland Railways, for its first hundred years, used cylindrical wheels and vertical rails. With non-inclined rails and cylindrical wheels, the wheel squeal from trains taking curves on that railway was slight. After adopting coned wheels and inclined rails from the mid 1980s, the wheel squeal from trains curving at the same location and at the same speed decreased immensely. Some modern systems, such as Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco, use cylindrical wheels and flat-topped rails; BART is now switching to conical tread to reduce the noise caused by flange/rail contact and loss of adhesion of one of the wheels on curves. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelset_(rail_transport)#Semi-conical_shape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelset_(rail_transport)#Semi...
  - t-writescode 6y ago
    Did you watch the videos, specifically of the guy in what seems like a golf cart going over the walking section of the bridge? It sounded horribly loud, louder than the guy who was crying about how loud it was
  - hedora 6y ago
    The bart didn’t do that when it was new. Apparently, standard railway maintenance involves grinding busy tracks down on a regular basis (so the track has a round crown on top instead of being flat). Of course, the BART system simply fails to do the maintenance. I used to commute through the transbay tube and would happily join a class action suit over the hearing loss.
- wpietri 6y ago
  For how much of SF? I live about a mile from the bridge, and it was no worse than the foghorns.
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PascLeRasc 6y ago
Berlin has some absolutely beautiful church bells. The overtones and reverb from all the walls are so chilling, it makes you feel like you're inside the bells or something. I recorded one of them: https://sndup.net/2h7t/St+Joseph+Kirche.m4a https://sndup.net/2h7t/St+Joseph+Kirche.m4a
- rantwasp 6y ago
  yes but the difference if that you hear the sound a couple of times per day vs continuously
- marton78 6y ago
  Guy from Berlin here. Isn't this how church bells are supposed to sound? Do they sound different in other places?
  - tripzilch 6y ago
    They sound like that in the Netherlands too.
  - PascLeRasc 6y ago
    I wish, but here in America they’re much more basic.
14 6y ago
Soon as I read your comment I laughed and said now let’s watch YouTube remove this video for copyright infringement
zimpenfish 6y ago
I saw a video on Twitter from what looked about half a mile from the bridge - sounded like Lustmord to me. All it needed was some ethereal demon howl and it would have been perfect.

bitcharmer 6y ago

I don't think SF residents are as thrilled. It's overwhelmingly loud.

sevencolors 6y ago
I imagine it’s just going to be ignored. Like the bart “screeching” they never fixed.
- ketzo 6y ago
  That was such an insane thing to discover my first time on the BART. I’m sitting there thinking a catastrophic accident is about to occur, but everyone else is just on their phones... oh, that’s just the screech!
  - ljm 6y ago
    From a Londoner's perspective, this is giving me tortured flashbacks to travelling on the Jubilee Line. It's physically painful to hear once you start speeding up inside the tunnels.
    - dijit 6y ago
      A lot of the lines are like that, especially once it’s summer and you can barely survive without having the windows down. Dangerously loud. Although I also have sensitive ears. :/
    - rconti 6y ago
      With the Paris Metro using rubber tires on being super quiet, every time I use another subway, it blows my mind that these awful noises are tolerated.
    - leonroy 6y ago
      I travel on the Northern line on the London Underground to get to work and the sound of the trains nowdays hits 100dBA or more of extremely loud screeching: https://i.imgur.com/04YwBHJ.png https://i.imgur.com/04YwBHJ.png I went as far as lodging an official complaint and was told that to deal with capacity trains are running more often and faster than they have in the past, hence the increased noise. Furthermore due to the Northern Line having been built before environmental noise regulations were passed, it's exempted so Transport for London aren't planning on doing much about it. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon - between always on ear buds and mass transit noise we're risking a generation of kids suffering hearing loss well before their time.
- pronoiac 6y ago
  It's gotten quieter since 2017 - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-noise-levels-decibels-trains-headphones-loud-13602734.php https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-noise-levels-dec...
  - mmanfrin 6y ago
    "BART says", but as of 6 months ago I was compelled to buy ear plugs for my commute. There's a stretch just before West Oakland (Westbound) that I'm near certain has given me ear damage.
    - floatingatoll 6y ago
      It used to be even worse.
    - bpicolo 6y ago
      I haven't lived in the Bay for a few years but this brings me flashbacks to that part of my commute.
- calebio 6y ago
  Yup! Back when I was commuting daily, my watch would always alert me to 90dB+ noise on BART.
- Nitramp 6y ago
  That's amazing. According to this article, bart is now moving to tapered wheels instead of plain cylindrical: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/11/17449460/bart-screen-conversion-wheel https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/11/17449460/bart-screen-convers... My understanding was that all rail systems since roughly forever use tapered wheels. Primarily to reduce wear, by having the tapered wheels self center instead of grinding against the track. It's really odd that they seem to just roll that out in 2017?
  - buzzkillington 6y ago
    It's great they are finally moving to the 19th century.
  - frosted-flakes 6y ago
    > unlike the cylindrical profile which again just steers with the flange basically rubbing against the edge of the railhead. That's crazy. That means that the wheels are actually slipping when going around a corner, because the wheels are all the same diameter. Unlike conical wheels, which are essentially self-steering. Here's a great explanation by Richard Feynman: https://youtu.be/WAwDvbIfkos https://youtu.be/WAwDvbIfkos How could the BART trains possibly have cylindrical wheels? Conical wheels have been used on trains for ages, so that's seems weird. But doing some research, it seems that, yes, they were cylindrical: > Queensland Railways, for its first hundred years, used cylindrical wheels and vertical rails. With non-inclined rails and cylindrical wheels, the wheel squeal from trains taking curves on that railway was slight. After adopting coned wheels and inclined rails from the mid 1980s, the wheel squeal from trains curving at the same location and at the same speed decreased immensely. Some modern systems, such as Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco, use cylindrical wheels and flat-topped rails; BART is now switching to conical tread to reduce the noise caused by flange/rail contact and loss of adhesion of one of the wheels on curves. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelset_(rail_transport)#Semi-conical_shape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelset_(rail_transport)#Semi...
- t-writescode 6y ago
  Did you watch the videos, specifically of the guy in what seems like a golf cart going over the walking section of the bridge? It sounded horribly loud, louder than the guy who was crying about how loud it was
- hedora 6y ago
  The bart didn’t do that when it was new. Apparently, standard railway maintenance involves grinding busy tracks down on a regular basis (so the track has a round crown on top instead of being flat). Of course, the BART system simply fails to do the maintenance. I used to commute through the transbay tube and would happily join a class action suit over the hearing loss.
wpietri 6y ago
For how much of SF? I live about a mile from the bridge, and it was no worse than the foghorns.

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PascLeRasc 6y ago

Berlin has some absolutely beautiful church bells. The overtones and reverb from all the walls are so chilling, it makes you feel like you're inside the bells or something. I recorded one of them: https://sndup.net/2h7t/St+Joseph+Kirche.m4a https://sndup.net/2h7t/St+Joseph+Kirche.m4a

rantwasp 6y ago
yes but the difference if that you hear the sound a couple of times per day vs continuously
marton78 6y ago
Guy from Berlin here. Isn't this how church bells are supposed to sound? Do they sound different in other places?
- tripzilch 6y ago
  They sound like that in the Netherlands too.
- PascLeRasc 6y ago
  I wish, but here in America they’re much more basic.

14 6y ago

Soon as I read your comment I laughed and said now let’s watch YouTube remove this video for copyright infringement

zimpenfish 6y ago

I saw a video on Twitter from what looked about half a mile from the bridge - sounded like Lustmord to me. All it needed was some ethereal demon howl and it would have been perfect.