Wednesday, April 17th 2002

From Our Fortress on the Hill

author: le : San Francisco, CA

From Our Fortress on the Hill

author: le : San Francisco, CA

from our fortress on the hill san francisco, CA originally written april 24, 2001 it is our job to watch over the city we hear everything. a fog horn, a boat in the bay. gunshots. the j church line, rattling down the tracks. sounds make their way up through the cold air: white noise of thousands of cpu fans washing machines car engines humming street lights people breathing in their sleep from our perch we are audio experts documenting the noises of a living city on the insides of our heads, to each other out loud "did you hear that?" we will say, at 3am, after a striking noise "what was that?" we will say, decide, and file it...