What does New York sound like? Is it a clanging? A rhythmic cacophony? A deep, thumping through-the-walls heartbeat? Is it the tinny sounds that streams out of bars downtown? The distant churning of passing subway cars? Does the pavement have its own sound under your feet? Can you hear something in the emptiness of Coney Island's seascape? If you were the luckiest guy on the Lower East Side, wouldn't you, too, write a song about it?