When my nerve wore down
I was assailed by simple little sounds:
Hammer clangs, sirens in the park
Like I never heard New York
Blaring brakes, trapped trucks
Honking horns, hissing buses stuck
Shrieking trains barreling berserk
Like I never heard New York
Like I never heard New York
When the room grew loud
I learned to stand in back
Behind the crowd
Dam canals with cork
Like I never heard New York
But when the walls gave way
I had to flee, I had to back away
As the whole town barked
Like I never heard New York
Like I never heard New York
New York was written by Peter Silberman.
New York was produced by Nicholas Principe & Peter Silberman.
Peter Silberman released New York on Tue Jan 10 2017.
In a press release, Peter Silberman said:
“New York” is a lament for a relentlessly impermanent place. It’s a song of estrangement from streets that became unrecognizable in no time, and the end of a dissociation from sounds I’d come to ignore.
In a press release, Peter Silberman said:
I’ve strung together this video from collections of footage archived in the public domain, from open-sourced memories of an obsolete city that maybe never was.
Through reorganizing these aimless images, I found a story of flight from crowded cacophony, a q...