Showing posts with label interior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interior. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Sounds during Sunday lunch at a quiet restaurant

Plates clattering
Traffic outside
Faint music
Gentle conversation
-- Everything all right?
-- Today we've also got...
-- I'll just get the card machine
A glass put down
Cutlery on plates
Eating noises
Things being crossed off and things being written on a blackboard
A cork removed from a bottle
Wine pouring
A hunt for change
The card machine printing off a receipt

Sunday, 9 March 2008

List of sounds heard during the interval at the theatre

Everything is deadened
Music that has nothing to do with the play
'I must say...'
'To me it seemed...'
Tip-up seats creaking
Things being unwrapped
Newspaper cutting rustling
Plastic sandwich bag whispering
Bag of sweets pulled open
Cellophane unwrapped
Very quiet conversations punctuated by laughter and sneezes
Deep or high voices stand out
A sudden laugh
'Excuse me... excuse me...'
Stiff paper flapping -- programmes used as fans

Thursday, 6 March 2008

Sounds heard in a secondhand bookshop

Traffic passing outside
A polite enquiry
A strip light buzzing
A cardboard box slid across a gritty floor
Foot steps across a wooden floor above
A box being untaped
Till bleeping and cash draw opening
A mobile phone ringing

Monday, 3 March 2008

List of everything I can hear at my desk

The hard disc whirring and croaking
My keyboard tapping
Bird song
Wind.
An aeroplane circling
A car going past.
My neck joints crunching.
My chair creaking
The creak of the desk
My metal buttons hitting the desk.
The return key, which makes clunk, rather than a clatter-tap.
My own breathing.