Sound

»sound system«

tuner, amp, turntable, cdplayer, tapedeck, speakers.

or:

a well-designed (by chance or purpose) pattern of events, actions, impulses, equations, whathaveyou

The sound of the loon might well be the most curious – if not the most thrilling – birdcall in nature.

Vaguely yodel-like, it is a comforting call...but it is also slightly frightening, slightly otherworldly.

The loon is the state bird of Minnesota. Its call is infinitely more interesting than the din of the other loons that Minnesota keeps in its legislature.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. (Douglas Adams)

I challenge you to draw a continuum with noise on one end (the right) and music on the other end (the left). What do you place exactly in the middle?

Strange that some of the most glorious sounds in the world should have come from a man – Beethoven – who in the end could hear no sound (except, perhaps, the awful cacophony of tinnitus).

This is the opposite of ill and at the same time the opposite of silence. Maybe it is also the opposite of something else, but I do not know.

There is no such thing for us as silence. The body is a medium for propagating the waves generated by the functioning of the neural and circulatory systems. There is music already woven in the bones.

In the order of emotional content, I find sound more intense than either sight or touch. It seems to be where man has devoted so much creative effort to inspire others.

Some years ago, I was invited to a party in Cologne by two American girls. Most of the guests were Americans, so we talked English all the time.
I was introduced to a boy called Steve, and I said to him, »You sound rather British, Steve.« His reply was, »That's because I am rather British.«