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.