This is a brilliant piece. Manipulated sound, beautifully recorded and arranged, briefly surrounds the listener with fantastic, strangely believable syncopation before receding into the normal rhythms of the subway. It's a riveting two minutes of audio that bears repeated listening. The piece opens with reality and quickly heightens that reality; this is magic realism for radio.

Driving rhythm; sparse voiceover would let it through and permit some fun with syncopation.

Lets the sounds of the subway sing for themselves, albeit arranged into what you might consider music, especially if you're a fan of John Cage and/or avant-garde art-noise composers. Even if you're not, the piece has a rhythm you can tap your foot to. The clip will need some introduction by an announcer, as there is no narration--just the subway sounds from start to finish.

This is a fantastic sound art piece. Finding a number of these sound as music pieces and stringing them together could make a great show which contemplates how our society regards sounds of all types.

I think this is fantastic. The use of sound in this piece sets sound art and found sound apart from other radio pieces. There seem to be only a handful of people doing this with the effectiveness of the Subway Symphony. It not only imagines a story, but evokes a feeling which is both unsettling and entrancing.

Thanks!

There is indeed a symphony of sound on the New York City subway, and it's fun to hear. This piece reminds me of the sonic IDs WCAI on Cape Cod produces to great effect. They brand their station with local sounds and voices.
Makes you think... a whole collection of sounds like these, locally or not so locally, would be a nice way to break up the broadcast day.