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"spaceloop" <tao@ns.ahoc.net> put forth: > > It's great to read about others who take time out to listen to the rhythms > > of nature and draw inspiration from them . This is where most of my ideas > > come from, just things like this I notice in daily life. Hats off to >all the > > other "deep listeners" out there: > > Or the rhythms that come out of the motor noise from the guy next door > that *has* to mow is lawn at 7:00AM on a saturday morning ;-) Yeah, there are rules of coexistence most folks tend to ignore if we let them, eh? The flats we live in here (London) have a rule that hammering and other loud construction can't be done except between 9am-1pm. We had to remind our nextdoor neighbors of this yesterday, as they had workmen banging away still at 4. On the other hand, the building next to ours has had heavy reconstruction going on for over a month, 8am sharp, bang! bang! bang!, yelling, occasional operatic outbursts by some worker, loud power tools, sledgehammering, drilling... It really gets to one after a while - especially my wife, you know? Thankfully she knows that it'd be useless to send me over to contend with it. Also thankfully the most I've ever gotten to a complaint since 1984, when I moved out to LA, was "What the hell IS that playing?" :) I look back on my days in the East Coast, when my family had a LAWN, you know? 1-1/2 acres of lawn with enough nooks and crannies to negate the use of a rider mower, and, so, every week for oh, 3 hours or so, my life was filled with the ongoing drone of the mower. I came to think of it as a meditative process, this sculpting of the grass (you should mow it differently each time, you know?) combined with that single-tone drone. I kind of miss it in retrospect, and wonder sometimes that it might have been an introduction, with a set of parents who loved Montovani (sp), Ray Conniff, and hated the Beatles with a passion, to ambient drone music, even at age 11. Stephen Goodman http://www.earthlight.net/Studios * The free Loop of the Week! http://www.mp3.com/StephenGoodman * New MP3 Releases! http://StephenGoodman.iuma.com * Even more MP3s!