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Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home a month after 9/11, she taped an audio journal with conversations with her mother, brother, and…

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home after 9/11, she taped conversations with mother, brother, and people on the street about their…

Washington State resident Susan Small was a graduate student in NYC in the 1970s. She remembers that the WTC was totally empty by 10:00 at night. She can still recall the sound of her leather sandals against the marble floors of the WTC atrium.

Oregonian Cheri Goodwin went to the top of the WTC on Superbowl Sunday. She remembers all the foreigners, the sounds of the wind in the plaza, yelling, and having fun.

Arizonan Kathleen Paul used to live on Long Island and remembers pulling off the road during her commute to watch the sun setting between the towers.

Sylvia Bloom remembers a brunch she enjoyed at Windows on the World in 1980.

New Yorker Suellen Epstein lives three blocks from the WTC and saved the telephone messages she received on 9/11.

This recording of the scene outside the WTC as the first tower collapsed was broadcast on NPR's Weekend Edition on September 15, 2001. Reporter Steven Manning made the recording on September 11th.

In this recording of street sounds from Radio Row in 1929, you can hear shopkeepers blasting phonographs and radios.

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He describes his studio and how he used it as a testing ground for people's reactions to their environments.

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. After 9/11, he had to find appropriate ways of sharing his work while remaining respectful of those who died. Today, the…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He discusses figuring out the technology for his project and explains that, once he did that, he felt more in tune with the…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He discusses getting started at the WTC, figuring out how to work with the compositional tools of his environment, and…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, recalls the ambient sounds he recorded with contact mics attached to the windows of the WTC. His most widely heard sounds were recorded during Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He discusses living and working in the WTC space and how it was different from other spaces.

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, talks about security measures at the WTC after the 1993 bombing and how, as an artist, he felt a little like an outsider. He also talks about his experience of 9/11--a…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, talks about growing up in New York and working on the harbor as a teen. To him, the view of the WTC represented Manhattan. He started making punk rock music, then moved…

Steve Vitiello, one of the artists in residence at the WTC World Views Program, made ambient sound recordings of the building. He remembers many different sounds--the elevators, halls, escalators. He wishes he had archived more.