The sweet sounds of the subway never sounded so good.
Well, most Metro riders may not feel the garbled announcements and rattling cars sound soothing, but a Google engineer has made the New York City subway system sing.
Alexander Chen apparently took New York train data and the system’s iconic map, syncing them so that trains crossing another line would pluck a string, making a harp-like sound. The length of the train line determines the pitch. Together, the system of trains creates an abstract piece of music.
Visit the site to watch and listen.
Would Metro sound so sweet? Probably not, given that it has fewer intersecting train lines. And perhaps we won’t know for a while as the agency has yet to give its train data to Google.
