Sound
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First text | on Mar 28th 2000, 20:14:43 wrote Dragan about Sound |
Latest text | on Jan 13th 2009, 20:34:07 wrote Michel and Bruno and a shade of Batemann about Sound |
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Strange that some of the most glorious sounds in the world should have come from a man Beethoven who in the end could hear no sound (except, perhaps, the awful cacophony of tinnitus).
This is the opposite of ill and at the same time the opposite of silence. Maybe it is also the opposite of something else, but I do not know.
»sound system«
tuner, amp, turntable, cdplayer, tapedeck, speakers.
or:
a well-designed (by chance or purpose) pattern of events, actions, impulses, equations, whathaveyou
I challenge you to draw a continuum with noise on one end (the right) and music on the other end (the left). What do you place exactly in the middle?
The sound of the loon might well be the most curious if not the most thrilling birdcall in nature.
Vaguely yodel-like, it is a comforting call...but it is also slightly frightening, slightly otherworldly.
The loon is the state bird of Minnesota. Its call is infinitely more interesting than the din of the other loons that Minnesota keeps in its legislature.
In the order of emotional content, I find sound more intense than either sight or touch. It seems to be where man has devoted so much creative effort to inspire others.
The sound of opposite is
gently crashing surf, then hot sun,
So hot the sun, then there's land
And a cool can of ...
Some years ago, I was invited to a party in Cologne by two American girls. Most of the guests were Americans, so we talked English all the time.
I was introduced to a boy called Steve, and I said to him, »You sound rather British, Steve.« His reply was, »That's because I am rather British.«
You can't escape the sound of music anywhere these days. People can't seem to get on without their background noise.
Anybody remember silence?
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