Sentence examples for ambient hum from inspiring English sources

There are many places in Cairo where the noise of the city is diffused into an ambient hum.

As is always the case when I arrive after a period of months away, I was tuned to any change in the city's ambient hum.

"Yours might stop," she and Mr. Cox repeated as they came to an abrupt halt, yielding to the ambient hum of the PA.

Racked by migraines and nightmares, she comes home to a short-tempered husband, a daughter who sneaks off at night, terror on the television and an insidious ambient hum.

For the past eighteen months, the twenty-seven-year-old Quinn has received a cavalcade of similar threats, which have created an ambient hum of menace in her life, albeit one that she has mostly been able to ignore.

There is no music to tell us how to feel about him – only an expressionist soundtrack that emphasises the ambient hum of nature (rain, birds, trees, breath), the Earth having flourished amid mankind's decline.

The building, which was completed a year ago, is a modernist composition in glass and metal filled with the ambient hums and whirs and whooshes of brain-scanning equipment, much of which was still being assembled.

In the tangle of live electronics, sampled and processed material, turntable sounds and the various ambient hums provided by, say, a contact microphone or a bow on a string, you often can't possibly tell where each sound is coming from.

Even if you craved a little weirdness in the face of Mexican waving to old disco hits, a sinister John Cageian disco-gothic mashup was available just by lounging exactly where the smoothly oiled Chic on the main stage merged with the ambient humming of Portico Quartet in the Arena and the pop soundtrack and random collisions from the dodgem-cars ride.

The kind of free-improv vocabulary that includes industrial noises, ambient hums, cat-and-mouse scampers and pregnant silences burst out of the late 1960s as an anti-tune guerilla movement, but has in recent years begun producing bracing tunes of its own.

Their second CD, Automate, manages, with tomatoes and celery sticks, to generate complex ambient hums and drones that highbrow electronic acts like Autechre have spent years developing on mega-advanced super-computers.