Sounds, a playlist for reading and sleeping

This is bookended with Max Richter's Sleep, which is musical, the rest in-between are just sounds of nature and appliances and stuff that can block out unwanted sounds which you cannot control, hence provided some alleviation. After the 2nd appearance of Sleep I may add more long videos which could be musical, ie: ambient kinds of minimal and classical kinds of things. I multiply it's appearance in this post 10 times so that I can when I need to play up to all at the same time, increasing it's raw uninhibited savage power to calm.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

I remember the premiere of Sleep, broadcast live on BBC Radio Three.

I put my bedroom radio on, at a very low volume so I didn't disturb my neighbour through the thin party wall, and went to bed!

I woke briefly a few times, I think more in the vocalese rather than purely instrumental sections, and eventually came fully awake about twenty minutes or so before the finale, which I stayed to hear. It lasts about eight hours in full.

The premiere was held in front of an audience invited to bring sleeping bags and camping mattresses, though apparently the music was quite loud in the auditorium. The work allows performers to rest between their passages.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell you have a thin party wall? should be a solid brick wall

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy It was brick but still let some some sound through.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell Maybe the brick does not go up into the attic. You have a shared attic. why dont you live in a regular house as we do? Why do you live in a duplex with two people side by side?? dont you want to be in a separate house with a driveway, garage, storage shed, and workshop for your lathe and welders, milling machine, band saw, drill press, and other equipment like a generator for the frequent long lasting blackouts? What will you do when the great blackout comes for you? 🍪

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy The party wall goes right to the roof in British terraced and sem-detached homes. I think that was compulsory in the earliest building regulations, in the 19C, mainly to stop or slow fires.

We don't call them "duplexes", but "semi-detached". They became very popular over 100 years ago; though of course a street of semi-detached and detached homes takes more land than a terraced one. Terraces generally went out of fashion for a long time but are being built again.

I'd love a detached or sem-detached home but they are expensive and I am not that rich! I don't run an engineering company either - if I did it would be on a trading-estate, not my back garden.

What is this "Great Blackout" you imagine? Although I cannot forecast what might happen in the future, our public electricity supplies in towns are very robust, so most cuts affect fairly small areas, are rare in any one area, and usually fairly short.

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The original topic was a piece of music though.

Not architecture!

I wanted to sleep as well, plus not risking annoying my neighbour, so I kept the volume very low.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell If the brick wall goes up through the attic. You should be able to listen to the radio and TV at normal levels. You just cant run a subwoofer as the deep bass goes through things and carries outside too. goes around corners. should be able to run up to about a watt of audio power. You just cant run a stereo system cranked up to 100 watts per channel. You're supposed to listen to this program while sleeping?? usally you have it quiet while sleeping, and the only sound is the purring cat. Power goes out a lot. storms go through, and we can be days or weeks without power. We run on a generator when the power is out. The derecho went through. took out the power lines in a multi-state area. We were without power for a month, so were a lot of people. At night, you could look in all directions, and it was dark from horizon to horizon. no power in any direction. The great blackout had us dark for a month. Europe got hit by the great blackout. Multiple countries in Europe were dark in the Great Blackout. You never know when the great blackout is going to come for you. 🍪

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy THIS thread is about a piece of music whose title is Sleep and by-line something like Lullaby For Modern Times - the clue is there, and another reason for playing it very softly.

1W of sound power and 100W electrical power, are those? I think they would both be very loud in a small bedroom.

Nothing to do with brick walls and power-cuts, real or not.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell it is about how loud you can have music without annoying neighbors with shared walls. 1 watt of sound power for listening is common with music and with watching tv programs with a sound system. The sound system goes up to 100 watts per channel to the speakers. Sometimes my grandparents are watching something here. I will walk into the living room and see the audio power meters hitting 100 watts per channel. They are heard of hearing. They are analog power meters. They respond better than digital power meters. 🍪 You can hear the TV program outside the house down the street when my grandparents are watching TV. 🍪

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy Indeed. There is no excuse for playing a TCV, radio or music system so loudly that it annoys others, and spoils their enjoyment of whatever they are doing.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell My grandparents are hard of hearing. what is a TVC????????? 🍟🍔

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy LOL!That's my clumsy typing. I meant TV.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell That is why you read what you typed, then do edits. 🍪 The analog power meter I have hooked up to the av reciever hits 100 watts per channel when grandparents are watching TV. I hooked it up so they can see how much power they are running, so they dont blow the tweeters. If you drive an amplifier into clipping. You put out a lot of power in high-frequency harmonics that will burn out the tweeters. 🍔🍟 Here is food for you to eat. 🥞🧇

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy Do you always do that?

The thread is about a particular piece of music and natural sounds such as rain, not the theory of amplifiers, nor biscuits.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell You were talking about keeping the sound turned down so it would not wake the neighbors. My grandparents live in a house. not an apartment building like you do. They have the sound cranked up as they are deaf. When did we talk about the theory of biscuits? I love baking soda biscuits with hot gravy on them. waffles. pancakes. and hamburger and fries are not biscuits. 🍓 Here is a tasty strawberry to eat. 🍓

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy I mentioned not disturbing the neighbours, yes, but you introduced irrelevant stuff about amplifiers.

I never said I live in a flat. All my homes, my own and those owned by my parents, have been self-contained semi-detached or terraced houses, not flats.

You sprinkled your last message with needless images of food.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell You said you live in a row house with no driveway. The walls on both sides have people on the other side of the wall. It's food for you to eat. You like the food I send you. 🍪

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy Yes, though we don't call them "row houses".

They are either "semi-detached" (two homes joined by a party wall) or "terraced" (a row of typically from four to many). Irrespective of parking spaces, which terraces do not normally have anyway.

My previous home, where I lived when I had the premiere of Sleep on the radio all night, was mid-terrace so with two linked neighbours. My present is end-of-terrace so only one party wall, but that is not very sound-proof at all.

So you do need consider your neighbours.

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell You have a wood wall instead of a brick wall separating the units? My grandparents live in a standalone house, so noise is not a problem when they watch TV with the av reciever putting out 100 watts per channel. 🍓

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@trackboy Of course not! The walls are of brick!

trackboy · 26-30, M

@ArishMell then you sould be able to listen to the radio without the neighbors hearing it. 🍓🍪