That old Arthur C. Clarke quote about technology so advanced it might as well be magic—that applies to sounds in the city, as well. The concrete beneath your feet as firm and as unyielding as physics allows is shaken by… what? There’s something down there. Something monstrous and strange in those tunnels. If I were a dragon (alas!), I’d hide in the subway tunnels that perforate NYC bedrock. Nobody would notice my rumblings or my fiery exhalations. I’d be just another sensory input for people beyond the ability to care.

"Dragons in Subway Tunnels" -- with "Organ Flagpole" by Tad Neuhaus, Joanna Dane, and Loren Dempster

"Shae Hears 'I Will Follow' For the First Time" -- with "Area 51" by Tom Washatka

"Reflection Nebula" -- with "Black Hole" by Bill Gillard

"Five Strings and a Purpose" "Sparse Talent Squandered" "Send Not to Know for Whom" -- with "Slipstream" by John Mayrose

"Something Again" "Rainy Night Aubade" -- with Shadow Dance" by Ed Martin

"7 and 26 -- a song by Bill Gillard

"Ora et Labora -- with "5:13" by Bill Gillard

"Seven Sleepers" -- with "Suspend" by Paul Dietrich

"Egg Larva Pupa Imago" -- with "They are obviously sounds; that's why they are shadows" by Drew Whiting

"Visions of Half Sleep" is a dreamlike soundscape, a collaboration among artists in northeast Wisconsin. It is Bill Gillard's words and voice along with music by many.

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