Tell us abut the sound environment of where you live
 

Possibly with all the changes that might have occured over the years. I'm all ears.

my town is built completely around a park, Sutton park, it is one of the largest urban parks in Europe and the largest outside a capital city; it is smaller than Richmond Park in London, but larger than the Phoenix Park in Dublin which both claim to be the largest in the continent.
The Park covers 900.1 hectares (2224.2 acres / 9.0 km²), with a mix of heathland, wetlands and marshes, seven lakes, extensive ancient woodlands (covering approximately a quarter of the Park). Its the only thing we have, its huge and fantastic, teenagers have been going there for years to get stoned or hang out or kill themselves.

A mixture of traffic from outside, African music coming in from people who live upstairs and Grime pumping out of people's car stereos.

Up until last week, I would generally detect the sound of police sirens, the screaming of a family at war and my noisy flatmates. The only notable noise that I've spotted in my new crib is the one of some dude constantly practicing on his guitar in a house in front of mine, plus people playing football outside.

is he playing the beginning to Come As You Are over and over and over again?

He sounds like a perfectionist. I swear he played the same riff for over an hour straight.

You sure you don't live in front of Sleep?

- sound of my hippie neigbor looking like bouncer from Amsterdam S/M club (leather pants, pierced face) - he's constantly playing Grateful Dead and singing to it and I hear it through the wall
- sound of my roommate playing violin - he's actually a top-notch player, really talented
- sound of kids playing in the park behind the back yard

And now comes the best part:

- sound of nearby airport, railroad AND motorway. (yes, I got'em all three in the neigborhood)

Wow. How do you sleep at night?

Usually on my back. :)

No, no, it's just, you know, you get used to it after a while. And now I find the sound of midnight trains rather soothing. Something like raindrops falling on your window when it rains.

Sounds of traffic, shouting teenagers and kids, shouting alcoholics and mouthy adults.

I thought he was asking more about sounds from outside.

A mixture of mopeds <very annoying, bicycle bells, high heel shoes, children at play, seagulls, howling wind and the sea.

[quote=Tokolosh]= high heel shoes=quote]

Sound evironment is not the same as the sound in your head, you know?:) :)





CLICK ON ME! CLICK ON ME! CLICK ON ME! CLICK ON ME! HARDER! FASTER! CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK!!

I have pretty good sound isolation in my room, so the sound environment I live in mostly consists of the music I listen to, the sound of my acoustic guitar, which I can't play, and the sounds of my own bodily functions.

I live near a power plant, which makes low humming sound that I've got used to by now. Occasionally they're cranking it up and the volume is fucking infernal.

I live about a mile from the city center so the traffic noise around here is nonexistent.

lawnmowers.
That's it.

birds, plane flying over head.

berlin: cars, trams, old man coughing all the time and an amateur dj who thinks he is the chemical brothers, sunday morning church bells that always wake me.

animal sounds usually.
whenever i am awake i go into my bedroom to hear the cawwing of the seagulls waking up at about 3.00am. there are also two birds nests in our attic, so there are sparrows on one side and starlings on the other.
we also keep two budgies in an avary, they are perpetually chirping away.
we have a very yappy dog as well, who barks at anything that moves.

In my house - a cornucopia of sounds from my housemates. One of them is into most strains of dance post 1990 (and knows his shit better than nearly anyone else I've met) and one of them's into a gash-load of classical.

In the street - the pub a few doors down, the birds and kids twittering in the park over the road, the teenage mothers playing football on the street (seriously, there's three of them kicking a ball around at the moment).

It would honestly not be uncommon to hear or come across something like this in my 'hood': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmVx5YwdmSg
Which is usually played at high volume in low rider trucks.

Other than that, beat up cars making awful howls, the ghetto bird making its rounds, and general crazies making whatever obscene noise they can.