Then a guardian, appointed to watch over barricades residents had erected, sounded the alert: The men in uniform had arrived.
He dutifully introduced a resolution citing "an unbearable level of noise emanating from the bridge" and directing the county's Department of Public Works to spend $50,000 to erect a temporary sound barrier on its east side.
Rock and roll's golden era had ended, and the music entered a transitional phase characterized by a more sophisticated approach: the orchestrated wall of sound erected by Phil Spector, the "hit factory" singles churned out by Motown records, and the harmony-rich surf fantasies of the Beach Boys.
Other than the low murmur of commands from a very erect Gordon McNeil, and the sound of hooves, there is silence.
Chicago-based Katherine Young, or "bassoon colossus" as I once semi-flippantly referred to her in a review, improvises here with violist Amy Cimini, that basic viola and bassoon palette augmented with toy instruments and electronic gizmos that are used to erect walls of layered sound while bolstering their instruments' basic capabilities.
We face off in a make-believe movie theater erected on the same sound stage on which Nixon debated Kennedy and sweated away the presidency.
By early afternoon, around 2,000 people had gathered in the spring sunshine as a DJ played Public Enemy's Fight the Power on a huge sound system erected on the lawn.
Particularly, it has been suggested that sound barriers, erected to reduce noise, may prove effective at decreasing pollutant concentrations.
The patient typically presents with a sharp cracking sound in the erect penis followed by rapid detumescence [6, 7].
THE 1969 Covent Garden production of "Les Troyens," conducted by Sir Colin Davis, was one of the great monuments in sound and drama erected at the time of the last big Berlioz anniversary, the centenary of the composer's death.
