Other sounds — a dripping faucet or a noisy TV — also help you get around.
After enduring the usual heckles from our fellow block-dwellers about our reluctance to pay the rent on time, the woman with a noisy TV who lives on the ground floor piped up.
Sound: turn off all noisy generators, TVs, and computer, and instead put on some easy listening music such as jazz.
A noisy wide-screen TV dominates, though there is grounds for forgiveness: John Logie Baird's experimental demonstration of television in 1926, took place in the flat upstairs.
The appointment is part of new Five chief executive Dawn Airey's mission to bring more noise to the channel – and there is no one more noisy in UK TV management than Woolfe.
While America welcomed the election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammad Morsi as president of Egypt as a step towards democracy, the Saudis viewed it as a power grab by an Islamist cult, financed by another impertinent neighbour, Qatar, whose noisy Al Jazeera satellite TV channel has long disturbed the royal Saudis' sleep.
"Rush Hour," the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker big-screen martial-arts action-comedy franchise, has now given birth to a noisy and likable TV series, premiering Thursday on CBS.
Gaddafi supporters were shown on TV staging noisy demonstrations, with the leader briefly appearing in the early hours of Friday at Green Square in the centre of the city, surrounded by crowds of cheering supporters.
Rodgers's ultimate ambition is for legislation to ban music in public areas of hospitals, where patients are trapped in their beds "unable to escape" the noisy hospital radio or TV.
Suddenly, there seem to be lots of images of babies everywhere: a Chinese woman plays with a gleeful, noisy brat on a TV monitor; and images of a baby used as a sort of installation prop (he sits surrounded by cutlery, or squats inside the toilet bowl), recorded in a number of photos taken in a Warsaw flat in the early 1970s.
