Internet: You Are Listening To

What is the soundtrack of urban life? Video game and Web producer Eric Eberhardt answers with the You Are Listening To series of sites—San Francisco (shown), Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Montreal—that reflect the noir realities of life in the city in a thoroughly 21st-century way: Each pairs a continuous audio stream from the local police department’s radio feed with electronica from the music-sharing site SoundCloud. If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and other classic “hard-bitten fiction” authors were writing today, they’d surely have one of Eberhart’s sites piping through their laptop speakers.• youarelistening.to