You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

[ SomaFM SF 10-33]<p><a href="http://somafm.com/sf1033/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;somafm.com&#x2F;sf1033&#x2F;</a><p>Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio traffic.<p>[ SomaFM Mission Control ]<p><a href="http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;somafm.com&#x2F;missioncontrol&#x2F;</a><p>A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.

There&#x27;s also a similar native app for iOS called La Vue – perfect for late night coding sessions. It&#x27;s also an eerie experience to walk down the streets of your own city while listening to the sounds of another city on the other side of the globe&#x2F;country.<p>[La Vue for iOS] <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/la-vue/id566957123?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;la-vue&#x2F;id566957123?mt=8</a>

Dang, this is cool...<p>I love the idea of procedural music using live data sets. This works really well - a lot of ambient music I listen to already has radio samples in it. I wonder if you could add reverb to the radio? Maybe with the room size oscillating very slowly.<p>Might I recommend a lower default volume for the radio? I&#x27;m listening to it more for the sound quality and not the words themselves.

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Ohhh, I like this one:<p><a href="http://youarelistening.to/numbers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youarelistening.to&#x2F;numbers</a>

I absolutely love this. On one hand you&#x27;ve got the peacefulness of mellow ambient music, and on the other, the potential death, doom and destruction from the police channels. It properly conveys the &#x27;techno&#x27; feeling that something can go horribly wrong at any moment.

Can someone elaborate please? Why listen to police radio while listening to ambient music?<p>I am genuinely curious and would like to understand this better.

This is a really great idea--bravo, xtrmntr! Are you traversing a SoundCloud playlist, or pulling randomly based on tags? It&#x27;s quite cool.<p>If the police feeds are too dramatic, there&#x27;s that excellent (archival) NASA audio one as well: <a href="http://youarelistening.to/nasa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youarelistening.to&#x2F;nasa</a>

Worth mentioning that they cover a number of cities, including St Petersburg, where they listen to road traffic police (in Russian of course).

This was really soothing until SFPD started talking about a nasty Truck&#x2F;Motorcycle accident. They dropped the line &quot;The rider is still down&quot;, and now I&#x27;m switching to ambient by itself.<p>Nice site though. This is actually pretty soothing as long as it&#x27;s typical, nearly-undecipherable police chatter.

This is just great. Not only the sounds, but I love the backdrops. I&#x27;m reminded of how much I miss LA.

Very nice!<p>Why not make the third component live -- and include a webcam feed in the background instead of the static image?

In a similar vein, there&#x27;s a great album that mixes ambient music with field recordings from airport terminals: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Real_Airports" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Music_for_Real_Airports</a>

Nice ! I would love to have a stream to play in my music player rather than in my web browser !

This is really cool. Makes me feel productive. I have been working on ambient music that allows me to work and stay focused. Just released some of my first tunes here: <a href="http://www.vpena.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vpena.com</a>

The site is also mentioned in a good episode of the design podcast 99% Invisible.<p><a href="http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-23-you-are-listening-to/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;99percentinvisible.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;episode-23-you-are-lis...</a>

Bookmarked. I <i>already</i> occasionally listen to local and nonlocal police scanners via Broadcastify with my own playlists of atmosphere and ambient-shoegaze music. No joke. I&#x27;ll use this. Some beautiful, fresh music on the roll here.

I tuned in just in time to hear a report of a child being shot. On the plus side, the relaxing music just makes this seem like the opening of a drama film.

My first thought when I saw the website name was Screenwriter&#x27;s Blues by Soul Coughing - which turns out to be looping on the info page!<p>Very cool idea.

Thought this was the stupidest thing ever, then I listened. It&#x27;s rather cool and seems to work. Kudos.

absolutely love this, well done!