By Trevor Cox
Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the realm. A well known specialist who engineers school rooms and live performance halls, Cox has made a profession of removing weird and wonderful and undesirable sounds. yet after an epiphany within the London sewers, Cox now revels in unique noises—creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, buzzing dunes, seals that sound like alien angels, and a Mayan pyramid that chirps like a chicken.
With forays into archaeology, neuroscience, biology, and layout, Cox explains how sound is made and changed by way of the surroundings, how our physique reacts to atypical noises, and the way those mysterious wonders light up sound’s incredible dynamics in daily settings—from your bed room to the opera condo.
The Sound Book encourages us to turn into higher listeners in an international ruled via the visible and to open our ears to the fantastic cacophony throughout us.
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You spoke too often, Friend; had you forgot The insignificant ever dislike To be reminded of insignificance? You were the best of them, Bruno, the best By more than the flames that wrought the Change In the monads of your soul. As the flames Engulfed in fiery foam your anguished lips, Did you dying, wonder at those foolish ones Who sought to stifle truth with violence? THE WEARY ONE I wandered along the dusty way seeking the dawn of another day, like a drifting chip on a lonely stream, like a breath of wind or a vagrant dream a forgotten soul on a weary quest searching for home and love and rest.
He had no idea what she was talking about, but being Louis, back to the library he went to read and reread Wordsworth, Browning, Tennyson, Frost, and Service, to discover just what it was that made a great poem. During his travels he would occasionally compose poems, and it always seemed remarkable to me that he could both create and then remember them without writing them down; it seemed as if he could never forget a line or even a word. Louis explained that before the development of writing, poetry was one of the tricks ancient people used to remember stories.
A HANDFUL OF STARS Give me, O Night, a blessing Of peace, and a handful of stars— Give me, O Dawn, a beginning, New life, and a healing of scars; Give me, O Day, a freshening Of spirit, and warmth in the sun— Give me, O Earth, of thy bounty, Strength for the task I’ve begun. Leave me, O Night, of your stillness A calm for my inward soul— Leave me a breath of your darkness To cool me, and keep me whole; Leave me the wind in the willows The roll of the surf and the sea— Leave me, Beloved, my memories Of dreams you have given to me.