Karen Lazan CITY SOUNDS Listen with patience and persistence And you will finally, fully hear it: Between the cacophony of Crosstown buses and steamy subways, Before the blare of Broadway bright lights and Soho street fairs, And after the sounds of Ceaseless celebrants and weary workers There comes this sudden, muted music: A call of urban quiet and The shout of a silent city.
Thoreau would listen for the whistle of the train and instantly appreciate the enterprise it represented -- the "planetary motion" of freight, horses, and farmers that inform the entire system of production. 1) Listen for new sounds: Listen for new words and new sounds.
For now, however, Jimmy Breslin stood there, his hands at his waist, his glasses at the far edge of his nose, frowning, nodding, making soft uh-huh sounds, listening to yet another loser, another one of them, of him.
I started getting train sounds, listening to all types of stuff to try to pull that story together.
Fans of the band Insane Clown Posse partake in acts of debauchery, such as spraying cans of Faygo, making loud "whoop, whoop" sounds, listening to aggressive Horrorcore music and maintaining a "joking" obsession with murder.
Practice repeatedly by calling against recorded sounds, listening to actual sounds in the turkey habitat, and competing with colleagues.
Turn a phrase, play with sound, listen for cadence.
If you like sound, listen to what he's giving you.
Weary of venturing too far outside, they scurried into protected rooms when sirens sounded, listening for the sound of another rocket crashing somewhere in their city.
There's still another way of getting decent sound: listening to music through headphones, which makes sense in small city apartments or with warring partners, each preferring his or her own music.
While the earphones might block sound, listening to such a device provides, like a cellphone to a driver, a dangerous mental distraction at a time when total focus is required to properly control dangerous power machinery.
