Sunday, March 25, 2007

The sound of silence...

A few days ago in school i looked around the room and as we were doing some computer work, i noticed a few people with their iPods...listening away to dear knows what. At this particular time the teacher began to talk about something, tbh i wasn't too bothered to listen, So i thought to myself...hmmm, i could just listen to my iPod and then i thought a) it'd look rude to just whip it out and plug in while the teacher was talking and b) the music would only distract me from my work. I normally stay focussed when the whole room is silent...so i thought to myself...wouldn't it be cool to create a sound...a sound of silence...a way in which you could plug in your iPod and actually listen to silence. Now i know this maybe sounds a bit strange, you'd be thinking 'uhh...can't you just not listen to anything??' ...well no, because you end up hearing background noise. I'd like to create a sound that is purely silence...it drowns out all surrounding background noise and so what you would hear, would be silence...like you were in a totally silent room, hearing no background noise from someone talking...and it wouldn't be music that would distract you.

hmmmmm...

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The sounds of silence is simply the inverse of all the ambient noise in the environment around you. It's how noise cancellation headphones work. So if you want silence, get some noise canceling headphones and just don't play any music through them.

9:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

PS: sorry if I burst your philosophical / arty musing bubble by being practical :P

9:56 PM  
Blogger Nigel said...

haha nah you didn't...i thought of that, but my ears are so strong...ALL noise isn't canceled...the headphones that came with my phone are noise cancellation...but they don't work 100% ...........................but that wasn't the point of the post, the point was that it would work 95% with ANY headphones...a sound an actual sound that is playing silence.

10:35 PM  

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