The noise of rustling bags of pistachios and yogurt-covered pretzels, which several audience members had taken along for snacks, accompanied the polite applause at the end of each number.
So during the first half of the show Saturday night, which was mostly quiet jazz and heartfelt ballads by Patti Austin, Rob Laufer, and Brian Stokes Mitchell, I had the couple to my immediate left across the aisle who just had to finish off an entire large bag of Tostitos before intermission and did so during every song, crunching and rustling the bag with every note.
The first day lasted five hours, but the second went on from 2pm to 11pm and involved such challenging turns as Crys Cole, whose ambient improvisational piece sounded like someone rustling a bag of crisps for 25 minutes; Marco Fusinato, half an hour of feedback played at savagely loud volume, and Hammers Lake, which featured a women screaming, then spitting into a piece of tin foil.
Of the sounds that disrupt concerts these days -- coughing, rustling plastic bags, alarms on electronic watches, the dreaded cell phones -- the buzzing hearing aid is a delicate one to deal with.
No commands were given by the experimenter, and if the dog wandered more than 2 m away from her, she rustled the bag containing the sausage to attract the dog's attention.
You don't want to accidentally rustle the bag under your desk and turn the item on.
You don't want to rustle the bag and unknowingly turn on the item and drain the battery.
Don't rustle chip bags needlessly.
So if you see me running from the Golden Arches to the car with a rustling paper bag, please be kind.
ObjectRustle Sounds made by object, such as a rustling plastic bag.
He had come for some medicine for her and left with it in a rustling plastic bag, a box of food supplies under his arm.
