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Post by onlymark on May 6, 2011 20:50:54 GMT
I had to get a reference to sex in their to get you interested.
But anyway - I know we have a sound around you thread - but frequently they are annoying sounds. What I want to cover, as with sights or smells, is one of the most important senses you have. That of hearing.
What sound(s) are a joy to you to hear? I understand different music could be eligible, but we do have music threads, so mentioning your favourite piece should be avoided. I'm more thinking of something like your baby crying, the key in the lock from a loved one, the sound of the sea, the kettle boiling after a hard day, a bottle of wine opening, the rustle of leaves in the trees - you hopefully get the idea.
For me there are several that immediately come to mind. The school bus that brings my kids home safe and well from school. My father's laugh. When my mother used to sing. Sails flapping in the wind and rigging wires 'tinking' on the mast at anchor. The 'scrunch' of walking in snow. A train shunting in the middle of the night at distance. A V8 engine at full 'chat' (throttle) Rolls Royce Merlin engines and the 'hummmm' of synchronised engines on old twin engined bombers. And funnily enough, when a muezzin (Islamic call to prayer man) with a really good voice does his stuff.
If you want to slip in a few hateful sounds, all well and good. It's up to you. The most hateful for me is the alarm clock. They should all be taken out into the desert and shot. (In fact when I leave Egypt, that might be an idea with mine).
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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2011 1:51:49 GMT
Great thread, Mark!
Hmmm. In no particular order:
-- Cicadas cranking up to full pitch.
-- Sort of stealing yours, but that sound of a marina, with the multiple bell-like clonks that always made me think that's how Tibet must sound.
-- The way my mother answers the telephone -- hyeh-lohh -- best I can reproduce it.
-- The way my son greets me on the phone -- he-ey, whatzup?
-- That sort of backward ticking sound as a bike glides to a halt.
-- Hateful noise: the back-up beep of heavy equipment.
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Post by rikita on May 7, 2011 17:42:39 GMT
summer sounds like the kids on the playground across the street and the birds singing in the trees.
hateful - maybe those people who have lately taken to singing loudly every time they leave the pub downstairs at about three a.m.?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2011 20:58:00 GMT
Nice.
All the people of different ages laughing and calling as they play volleyball in the field in front of my house.
The subtle sound of the municipal water trickling in three times a week.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2011 21:49:58 GMT
I love the sound of the crickets in Provence (which some people insist on calling cigales, even in English).
I love to wake up to the sound of gamelon music when I am in Indonesia.
Like onlyMark, I think the call of the muezzin can be extremely appealing, particularly at dawn or dusk.
The little chugging noises of fishing boats entering or leaving a port, mixed with the cries of seagulls, is an exquisite sound as well.
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Post by bjd on May 8, 2011 6:47:06 GMT
I like the clinking sound of boats' rigging wires in the wind too. I like any kind of ports in general, anywhere.
At the beginning of spring, the sound of blackbirds in the evening.
Babies' laughter.
Like Mark, the scrunch of dry snow when you walk on it.
The sound of my kids when they all start laughing hysterically about something.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 11, 2011 17:01:09 GMT
Priya-Super-Cat in full purr....
The burbling song of Goldfinches, the soaring song of Robins and Wrens in the garden....
The sound of the sea as the tide comes in
The wind on dark, wintery nights when I'm safely tucked up in bed
Grumbling thunder in the distance on hot sunny days
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Post by rikita on May 11, 2011 19:24:16 GMT
hm, the sound mr. r. sometimes makes when he does a very exhausting or painful yoga exercise... which reminds me of another sound he sometimes makes... um...
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2011 19:49:21 GMT
The Parisian buses have a very pleasant little dling-dling-dling to warn bicycles or pedestrians that they are about to be run over unless they take preventive action. It is so much more pleasant than the blasting get-the-fuck-out-of-my-way horn that they use on certain vehicles.
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Post by hwinpp on May 18, 2011 9:23:45 GMT
Not an aural orgasm but eargasms! I get them every month when I go to the barber
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 18, 2011 13:59:07 GMT
eargasms....what a brilliant word! ;D
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Post by patricklondon on May 19, 2011 15:06:03 GMT
Blackbirds singing on a summer evening as everything starts to settle down.
The first (non-motorised) lawnmower of the year.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2011 17:12:37 GMT
Frankly, waking up to soft gamelon music in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on a tiny pedestrian lane, has so far been the most wonderful sound of my life.
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Post by onlymark on May 19, 2011 17:49:11 GMT
What were you doing sleeping on a lane?
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2011 17:58:02 GMT
My glassless window was about 7cm from the lane.
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Post by onlymark on May 19, 2011 18:12:16 GMT
Bars usually are close to the road.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 17, 2012 20:21:49 GMT
I like it when it gets so quiet you have to prick up your ears to hear anything at all, then start noticing all kinds of subtle sounds.
I like the way my dog sort of squeaks when she wants to say something.
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Post by foreverman on Jan 18, 2012 2:05:25 GMT
I used to love the sound of church bells on a sunday morning.................
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2012 4:14:34 GMT
For the rest of my life the sound of church bells will remind of the night in January 1973 when it was announced that the war in Vietnam was over. Even though it was cold, we opened all the doors and windows to listen to the church bells ringing all over the city of New Orleans.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2012 19:27:59 GMT
Surprised no one has mentioned the dawn chorus, that rising crescendo from the birds as the sky gets lighter and lighter.
(ha ~~ looks as though I made this almost exactly 2 years ago)
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Post by htmb on Jul 9, 2012 13:11:24 GMT
I love hearing the sound of moving water. Waves crashing on a beach, lapping at a lakeshore, flowing over rocks in a river are the sounds I want to hear last thing at night and the first thing in the morning when I wake up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 10:41:57 GMT
Ditto on all of the above. The engine sound of one of these sends me....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 17:44:16 GMT
I think the only sound of a motor that I adore is that of an ocean liner.
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Post by foreverman on Aug 6, 2012 11:37:26 GMT
The sound one of my chooks makes after laying an egg, especially when I am waiting for breakfast
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 7, 2012 16:41:19 GMT
And you're not going to attempt to reproduce that sound for us?
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