OT Re: [Sca-cooks] The noise of modern life

[Patrick Levesque]

R. Murray Schafer (in 'The Soundscape') actually has a fairly sizeable
chapters on sonic differences between the Middle Ages and the contemporary
era, most of it revolving around the opposition between continuous sounds
(drones, traffic, etc...) and discrete, interrupted sounds. It's actually a
pretty interesting discussion on the history of sound and sound perception
(for those who are interested in such topics). You do need to get pas a
considerable amount of New Age rhetoric to get to the most interesting bits,
though

Petru


> 
> Have you been to Pennsic? I think there have been two major power
> outages during different Pennsics, and except for a few "street
> lights" near the central buildings and such, it was hard to know
> there was a major regional blackout going on.
> 
> I imagine though that if you were suddenly thrown back into the
> Middle Ages, it might be the different sounds that you would notice
> the most. Of course, I imagine the smells would be rather different
> as well.
> 
> Stefan