Midnight Street Noise

The mere absence of sun is not enough to dissuade the city dwellers from coming out of their homes, in fact for some it is the very thing that summons them. However calm it is compared to the activity of the day, this midnight scene is still full of all the excitement and entertainment that anyone could possible want in the middle of the night. Midnight is, in most systems, the transition time period from one day to the next: the moment when the date changes. In the Roman time system midnight was halfway between sunset and sunrise, varying according to the seasons. It also marks the beginning and ending of each day in civil time throughout the world. It is the dividing point between one day and another. With 12-hour time notation, most authorities recommend avoiding confusion by using "midnight", "12 midnight", or "12:00 midnight". Solar midnight is that time opposite of solar noon, when the sun is closest to nadir and the night is equidistant from dusk and dawn. Due to the advent of time zones, which make time identical across a range of meridians, and daylight saving time, it rarely coincides with midnight on a clock. Solar midnight is dependent on longitude and time of the year rather than on a time zone. In many cultures, traditional midnight is associated with chaos, death, the underworld and mystery. It was seen as a moment when sacrum manifests itself and epiphanies were most likely. The epiphanies expected were those associated with darkness, so it was thought that at midnight, visitation from spirits, ghosts, demons and devils were common. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=120576