Sentence examples for ordinary sounds from inspiring English sources

And it's intriguing how hearing such music in a setting removed from the concert comfort zone can affect your perception of ordinary sounds.

It also encourages a closer look at what everyday things actually look like: detergent bottles have distinctive designs; ordinary sounds, once isolated, turn peculiarly expressive.

But as she slowly shrugged off her shroud of silence, Mrs. Wilber seemed more rapt by ordinary sounds than by music.

Every step carries a premonition that something might happen, a sense of foreboding and latent violence that Ms. Loktev creates by amplifying ordinary sounds, applying small doses of portentous music and cutting abruptly between shots.

When she made a comedy about an unwanted house guest, it is the ordinary sounds and habits of that guest in another room that intrude so comically on the writing of a film script.

Ordinary sounds are jacked up to a paranoid pitch; when Joe takes a jelly bean and squeezes it, there is a granular crunch, and his trudge along a dusty track is as resonant as the march of a platoon.

As a consequence of the translational quasiperiodicity, there exists a second type of elastic deformation beyond the ordinary sound wave, or phonon.

The main tone and its harmonics, he said, take the form of huge acoustic waves -- closely related to ordinary sound waves in air -- in the hot primordial gases.

While some aspects of a performance — like balance and projection — are certainly difficult to assess on a computer and an ordinary sound system, this one proved a rewarding interpretation.

The total sound power is in this case divided into five independent noise sources which are obtained via ordinary sound power measurement methods.

The results also revealed that most participants (n = 32) preferred listening to music versus listening to ordinary sound (n = 3) while in the PACU (p < 0.001).