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As I wrote a week or so ago, motel rooms are noisy: \u00a0the fans, the heaters, the coolers, television from other rooms, showers and toilets, even, at the Residence Inn, people playing basketball until 10 pm. \u00a0I’m sure if you stay at places better constructed than the ones I frequent, this may not be a problem, but for me it has made returning home to the exurban night a real blessing.<\/p>\n
After 11:00 pm, 10 pm most nights, the silence here is noticeable. \u00a0No cars. \u00a0No motorcycles. \u00a0No loud music. \u00a0The dogs might snore a bit, but that’s a soothing sound.<\/p>\n
I remember reading about a silent room in someone’s studio here in the Twin Cities, a place so quiet that it’s used for testing acoustical equipment. \u00a0The guy who runs the room said people couldn’t stand to be in the room for very long. \u00a0Apparently some level of ambient sound is necessary for us, or at least so expected that its absence suggests something’s gone wrong. \u00a0I wouldn’t mind spending time in that room, just to see.<\/p>\n
Right now there is no thunder. \u00a0No wind. \u00a0No hail. \u00a0No arcosanti bell ringing in the storm. No Great Gray Owl hooting or wolf howling. \u00a0No lightning. \u00a0No fireworks from the neighbors across the street. \u00a0Only the sounds, what are they?, that fill the ear during times of silence. \u00a0A faint buzzing, a not unpleasant attempt by the ear to hear even when the stimulus is close to non-existent. \u00a0Silence.<\/p>\n
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