August 14, 2002

Come on, feel the silence

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At the end of a busy day, I drove my middle daughter to Au Train Bay to see how the sunset was going to turn out.  Several tourists also joined us to view a pretty good sunset.

New Slide Show!

2002 U. P. State Fair (12 Pictures)

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Ugly noises pollute our world.  In his book A Century of Recorded Music (Yale University Press, 2000), Timothy Day estimates that nearly 70 per cent of the sounds that fill our environment are “technological” noise — emanating from machines, traffic, etc.  In the tribal communities of prehistory, Day suggests, perhaps five per cent of the acoustic environment was composed of technological sounds, such as swords and ploughshares.  The rest were natural, healthy sounds: water, wind, animals, us.

Matthew Connolly, reporter, from his Times Online article titled
Come on, feel the silence.

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