Quotes About Sound

there was no doubt in the world that I was in control of those sessions. The guys knew. So I would try to get the sound down there on the microphone in a cohesive and harmonic medium that started up here in my head. 'I find that search on every song we've ever made: that search for a lost sound.

That complexity may only have been 'quiet, loud, quiet, loud again', but at a time when most rock bands only had two volume settings – painfully loud and really, really painfully loud – this was groundbreaking stuff.

One still unused experiment from this time was an exploration of backward vocals. A phrase written out backwards letter for letter and then read out will not sound correct when reversed, but a spoken phrase recorded and played backwards can be learnt and recited. This gives a very odd effect when it is in turn played backwards. 'Neeagadelouff' was one I remember: it should come out as 'fooled again'.

Preliminary discussions threw up the idea of a record created entirely out of sounds that had not been produced by musical instruments. This seemed suitably radical, and so we started out on a project we called 'Household Objects'. The whole notion seems absurdly laboured now, when any sound can be sampled and then laid out across a keyboard, enabling a musician to play anything from barking dogs to nuclear explosions.

She walked on the wave of sound the length of the tables and back up again until she stood before Edwin, on the other side of the board.

Long after the sound faded, she sensed the air humming as the gong quivered on its ropes.

Aud rhymes with cowed.

He could send his words trilling into the roof corners or scuttling through floor rushes.

Aud rhymes with shroud.

She started awake at the sound of footsteps, stood more than a sword's length from every gesith and listened and listened and listened, until she thought her ears might start twitching like a cat's.

As always when she was trying to learn a new language, she opened her mind and let the sound wash through it.

I am trying to imagine language without light, as though I wanted to understand how things were before language, when, deep in the throat, syllables and vowels were not yet organized and it was necessary to tilt one's head back to allow sounds to fly through the open air, terrifying, guttural or strident.

You can't smell a hug. You can't hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

On the edge of things was the sound of the ocean, that tectonic drum, the heartbeat of the earth.

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

The retreating slow crack of Blaisedell's bootheels had been a sound as lonely, and as fatal.

A dying scream makes no sound, Calling out to all that have ever known Here am I, lost and found Calling out to all

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Los sonidos se han enroscado y han echado para atrás sus ojos de caracol

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

Though we knew each other without overlapping our clothes, still, with this autumn wind's sound, I find myself waiting for you.