Sound
Rating: 12 point(s) | Read and rate text individuallyIn 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.
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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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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 ...
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.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. (Douglas Adams)
Explorers for hundreds of years hoped they would discover the Northwest Passage an all-water route leading from Europe to the Far East through the northern part of the Americas. Think how awkward that would be an ocean channel more than 3,000 miles long, snaking across the U.S. and/or Canada, making North Dakota and Saskatchewan into ports. Just so a bunch of spice merchants would have it easy!
They thought they'd found the Northwest Passage when they sailed into Puget Sound.
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).
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?
»sound system«
tuner, amp, turntable, cdplayer, tapedeck, speakers.
or:
a well-designed (by chance or purpose) pattern of events, actions, impulses, equations, whathaveyou
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.
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