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wow intense! i would not like it probably. when i sleep i need it 100% dark/black, but i need a little bit of traffic/wind noise/dog snores….i live in the middle of the city so i am probably just used to it.

I hear that.

I find the soft sounds of wind, waves, birds, traffic, rain (especially rain), device hums, muffled voices of pedestrians, distant trains, clouds gossiping about things they’ve spied upon, plants complaining about the weather, my dead heart fluttering fruitlessly, worms sneezing, and so on extremely comforting and soothing.

It is definitely a useful bias to have when living in a city (not that the countryside is really any quieter, just different in its soundscape) and gives those odd moments of pure untainted silence even greater impact.

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Is Silence Going Extinct? ›

digitalsensorium:

…What’s more, other experiments showed, much as the M.I.T. study did, that noise affected the way visitors saw landscapes: when volunteers viewed photos of natural vistas while listening to helicopters on tape, they rated the scenes less picturesque than they did under quieter conditions…

…scientists were about to realize the damage society’s widening sonic footprint could do to natural ecosystems. In 2003, a Dutch team studying a common songbird, the great tit, reported in Nature that males of the species shifted their calls to a higher frequency in cities, where low-frequency human noise masked their normal song range. Further proof that urban sounds cause wild creatures to adjust their vocal styles quickly followed. Nightingales sing louder in louder environments. Robins — usually diurnal singers — switch to nighttime in areas that are chaotic by day..

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“I… set out… for a… noiseless… room. Then I remembered… The silence depressed me.”

“I… set out… for a… noiseless… room. Then I remembered… The silence depressed me.”

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hodgsona: When you are upset and you hold your ear against the speakers and concentrate only on the crackles and pops over the muted vocals so all you get is a blur of electronic noises and then you turn the volume right up so that it is all you can hear - and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else.This is why music can be so vital in times of strong ups and downs. I will confess that the glitches of semi-broken cables being shook, power-on pops, crusty potentiometer crackles, vinyl fluff mush, and intentionally induced ground hum are indeed comforting to me, although I can’t explain why. zoom

hodgsona:

When you are upset and you hold your ear against the speakers and concentrate only on the crackles and pops over the muted vocals so all you get is a blur of electronic noises and then you turn the volume right up so that it is all you can hear - and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else.
This is why music can be so vital in times of strong ups and downs.

I will confess that the glitches of semi-broken cables being shook, power-on pops, crusty potentiometer crackles, vinyl fluff mush, and intentionally induced ground hum are indeed comforting to me, although I can’t explain why.

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Watch Your Mouth: The Sounds of Snacking ›

When the researchers amplified the crunching sound, test subjects rated the chips as crispier. When Spence muted the crunch, or took out the high frequency sounds, the volunteers scored the chip as less crisp. In a more conventional setting, like the local 7-Eleven or a backyard barbecue, crinkling up a bag of chips may set us up to think the chips themselves will be nice and crispy. “I started speaking to some of the packaging engineers and found that there’s no good reason in terms of product preservation for the noisy packets,” Spence told me. “As far as I can tell, it must just be some intuitive marketing on the part of man or woman who thought, ‘Well, it’s a noisy food, it’s got to have the right expectations for the packaging.’”

Via @GeetaDayal

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audiokayness replied to your post: I don’t really believe that mice understand…

Use a contact mic to record scratching for a new track. Explain you’ll only credit the mouse performer if she/he moves along. Otherwise, wall board percussion goes to Stuart Little.

Heh, yeah.

I had actually considered the other night using a mic to capture it’s scratching and build a rhythmic Markov chain model but it’s generally silent.

Could be performance anxiety, or could be it’s more comfortable working back stage behind the curtains.

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silencesounds:

What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch) (by Vihart)

“Hey, I’m getting pushed around here. Let’s experience this as sound!”

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lkmlln: The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo (.pdf) Some will object that noise is necessarily unpleasant to the ear. The objection is futile, and I don’t intend to refute it, to enumerate all the delicate noises that give pleasant sensations. To convince you of the surprising variety of noises, I will mention thunder, wind, cascades, rivers, streams, leaves, a horse trotting away, the starts and jumps of a carriage on the pavement, the white solemn breathing of a city at night, all the noises made by feline and domestic animals and all those man’s mouth can make without talking or singing. zoom

lkmlln:

The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo (.pdf)

Some will object that noise is necessarily unpleasant to the ear. The objection is futile, and I don’t intend to refute it, to enumerate all the delicate noises that give pleasant sensations. To convince you of the surprising variety of noises, I will mention thunder, wind, cascades, rivers, streams, leaves, a horse trotting away, the starts and jumps of a carriage on the pavement, the white solemn breathing of a city at night, all the noises made by feline and domestic animals and all those man’s mouth can make without talking or singing.