I've been singing quieter because I live in a thin-walled apartment.
Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
Recording studios are interesting; a lot of people say - and I agree - that you should have a lot of wood in a recording studio. It gets a kind of a sweeter sound.
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.
The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.
I'm very good at blocking out noise.
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
With an arena, it sounds so big and full sometimes it can obstruct the way we sing because we're hearing so much slapback and things like that.
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.
Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that tends to encourage barking. The problem you've got is that the kind of materials that absorb noise are difficult to clean. One of the biggest problems in the design of animal shelters is that animals are barking and it's like the sound of a jet plane taking off.
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.
