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By profession an observer of tones and gestures,
Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves
The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound.
A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.
Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.
Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.
There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Nature is sound in many forms and states of existence.
It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
Your ears are not simply for hearing tuneful sounds, mellow and sweetly played in harmony: you should also listen to laughter and weeping, to words flattering and acrimonious, to merriment and distress, to the language of men and to the roars and barking of animals.
Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.
How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.
Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.
In acoustic culture, the world, like sound, is all around you, and comes at you from all directions at once. It is multilayered and nonhierarchical; it has no center or focal point.
It's all about sound. It's that simple.
Soundwaves. It's the difference between one stillness and another stillness.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
When I hear music, it's visual; I see things,
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.
The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.
You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.
The ear is the only writer and the only true reader.
Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.
What else is soul but a listener?
What is the sound of one hand?
Listen: the dark we've only ever imagined now audible, thrumming,
marbled with static like gristly meat. a chorus of engines churns.
silence taunts: a dare. everything that disappears
disappears as if returning somewhere.
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.
I can actually see the sound in my head. I can actually see it ... But each sound is different so this one has that sparkle, there is a sparkle to the sound.
so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions
Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.
In the fish world many things are told by sound waves.
The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
Do you know what a magical kingdom is in your ear? A fairy cave leads to an Ali Baba doorway, beyond which the bony little ossicles - Malleus, Incus, and Stapes - guard the great snail, Cochlea, to whom God has given the power to transform the indiscernible movement of air into music.
Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
Hearing without listening is like seeing without a vision
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear
When things feel murky and unsure, fine tuning our hearing so as to distinguish the voice of our Innermost Self brings clarity.
[Humbaba's] sound is like a flood's sound
Slowly forming in the distance,
Then enveloping all other sounds
Listen amply.
Listen aptly.
Listen avidly.
Listen amiably.
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.
A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
When people listen they make a listening noise.
The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.
The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.
In silence, our senses come alive
Sound will be the medicine of the future.
Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.
The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Sometimes silence become the most excruciating sound; sometimes the mind becomes a musical symphony of clouded thoughts, questions and clarifications but the vocals fail to present the sound of conversation.
You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.
Music is the eye of the ear.
Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.
Music isn't just heard, it is felt.
An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.
As language is sometimes audible before senses arrives.
How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.
Sound is a different frequency
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Music is what feelings sound like.
My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds.
To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.
Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.
This is a writer's lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror.
Speech is a social chart of this bog.
When the brain is released from the constraints of reality, it can generate any sound, image, or smell in its repertoire, sometimes in complex and "impossible" combinations".
Music, or a voice; just some trick of the river on stones, the breeze in the hollow oak? The wood had a million voices, changing with every season and every day; you could never know them all.
As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.
with the words, but hearing them in
Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen.
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening
There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.