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This week I’ll muse about sounds. A friend introduced me to the research of Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist. He pursues places of silence – spots unmarred by human sounds, filled with nature’s noise only – and mourns their rapid decline.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0xHfFC_6n0<\/a><\/p>\n

The link is a short videoclip that explains what he does and how difficult it is to find a single square inch of silence in our noisy world. Reading up on him I realized how many people value silence; but it also got me thinking about sounds that actually matter, in everyday life. Admittedly free-associating, here are some sounds that made my life more interesting:<\/p>\n

Comfort<\/strong>: the quotidian noises of my German rural childhood evenings – the hoof clopping on the street when the cows were herded home, my mother playing the piano below my bedroom, after a long day. The neighbor’s diesel motor when he went off to night shift. The cooing of turtle doves heard through the open windows while trying to fall asleep.<\/p>\n

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Exploration<\/strong>: waking up in a dark hospital room from yet another anesthesia, unable to move or feel, trying to decipher if the noises are once again from a respirator or a suction pump to empty the lung cavity from surgery fluids as a teenager.<\/p>\n

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Irritation<\/strong>: wondering if the scratch of pen on paper would ever be replaced by some wise comment of the unseen shrink behind my back. (Curious, the word shrink<\/em>. Attributed to Thomas Pynchon from his 1966 book\u00a0The Crying Lot<\/em>, in reference to ancient tribal practices of head shrinking of enemies. Not loved in the therapeutic community for obvious reasons. I prefer the German word\u00a0Seelenklempner –\u00a0<\/em>soul plumber –\u00a0<\/em>unclogging those emotional drains. But I digress.)<\/p>\n

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Frustration<\/strong>: trying to fall asleep in your hotel room, while the ardor of the amorous couple above has the bed squeaking in F major.<\/p>\n

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Awe#1<\/strong>: sitting in the absolutely stunning silence of the North Saharan desert. \u00a0Awe, that is, until some traveler in urgent need of channeling his inner child brings out the bongo drums.<\/p>\n

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Awe#2<\/strong>: hiking through the tropical rainforest in Equador around the Rio Napo, in an environment louder than Manhattan at rush hour, animal noises and sounds of water, streaming, banging, dripping, clanging. A veritable symphony.<\/p>\n

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Surprise<\/strong>: another gift from nature. Climbing to the top of a local mountain, walking on natural gravel that starts to sound like music and seems to be echoed through some strange trick of physics. Can you find the marmot?<\/p>\n

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Pure joy<\/strong>: on a bird photography stint, standing at the right place at the right time, having sandhill cranes crossing over so closely that you can hear the sound their wings make.<\/p>\n

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And the best of all: the first time you hear your children laughing out loud (or for that matter any time after that!)<\/p>\n

Nothing else in the world beats that sound.<\/p>\n

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