Melancholy vista Nov 21, 2009
It takes more than a crafty guitar tuning to get there, but even in a commercially homogenised world, Cooder's radar remains tuned to a dimension way beyond the white noise of popular music. I got a record of some Cambodian rock guys doing this weird surf music, probably during the Cambodian war. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Girls grasp the cult of celebrity Nov 16, 2009
What it really comes down to, however, is this: Girls is the year's most idiosyncratic and thrilling discovery, a charmingly scrappy band that delivers bubblegum-sweet melodies through a din of heartbreak and white noise. While bands like Spiritualized, the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Beach Boys are a clear influence, they hardly define the sound on "Album." Owens doesn't have a particularly great voice, but he has the enviable ability to throw his whole world into woozy songs like "Hellhole... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Stay in style Nov 15, 2009
Walking the Wit s hallways, I heard the unmistakable chirping of birds: The hotel s white noise soundtrack includes babbling brooks and other nature sounds. Buttoned-up it s not. (Boston Globe)
* THE VINYL WORD Nov 6, 2009
It is a shame Red Square continues to blare out nondescript boring house from every angle and from different sound systems in a cacophony of white noise, smothering any sense cohesiveness. Get on it and triangulate please. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Speed of sound Oct 31, 2009
A good example: though I've always heard plenty of talk about the utter awfulness of such infamous albums as Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (a double album of guitar feedback and white noise) or Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra (don't ask), I can now listen to them for nothing, and have an opinion of my own. As one of my music press colleagues use to say, there's no longer any past - just an endless present. (BBC News -- Technology)
REM call for Guantanamo closure Oct 23, 2009
Following an early information request, Ms Huckerby received a CIA document dated December 2005 in which the agency explained that the use of loud music or white noise was needed "to mask sound and prevent communication among detainees". She argued that such sounds were not a "benign security tool," but a way "to humiliate, terrify, punish, disorient and deprive detainees of sleep, in violation of international law". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Musicians crank up the volume on Guantanamo debate Oct 22, 2009
As part of an earlier FOIA request for information about these "black sites," Huckerby received a top secret CIA document dated December 2005 in which the agency explains that the use of loud music or white noise is needed "to mask sound and prevent communication among detainees.". If decibel levels are kept at 79 or lower - roughly equivalent to a garbage disposal - detainee hearing won't be damaged, the agency said. (Anchorage Daily News)
Ecotones Duet Sound Machine Designed for the Half Billion Who Can't Sleep Oct 13, 2009
Designed from the ground up especially for sleep, Ecotones Duet has none of the negative side-effects common with drugs, nor the limitations of basic white noise and sound machines ... Sound and "white noise" machines have long been used to help people mask unwanted background noise. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
See the light, hear nature's call in art gardens Sep 6, 2009
The recording of the wind in the aspen leaves sounds like white noise, though Livingston has spent years trying to capture it, and was on the western slope of the Rockies recording fresh sound on the day before the opening. "You want to stop the wind from hitting the microphone but still capture the sound of the air moving," he says. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Drake And Trey Songz Get Somber In 'Successful' Video Sep 1, 2009
Clip might not be what you expect from two hot, young talents (VHI.com -- Music News)
Taking Woodstock is kind of a bummer, man Aug 26, 2009
Eliot and, by extension, the camera never gets all that close to the main stage, so the big show exists mainly as white noise somewhere in the background. Unfortunately, the filmmakers havent done too much to fill the foreground. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Critics' nightmare Aug 20, 2009
Page last updated at 09:30 GMT, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:30 UK. Talking Shop: Calvin Harris. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Bring It On' Aug 19, 2009
Now the blog White Noise Insanity argued, quote, "With a black man in the White House she's just feeling like the founding fathers would be livid because they wanted white power to the end.". Column Archive. (Fox News)
A cot mattress that mimics the womb Aug 17, 2009
Jeanne Tarrant, from the Royal College of Midwives, said: "Babies do respond to hearing their mother's heartbeat or white noise and it usually sends them to sleep. A rocking motion can also help. Anything that reminds them of being in the womb is useful.". More Stories from this section. (India Times, India)
A-Rod 'new man' Aug 9, 2009
"Just because it kind of gave me a chance to refocus and rethink things and take, basically, time out from all the white noise I created for myself over the last year and a half.". Rodriguez hit a three-run homer on the first pitch he saw in his first game back, and the Yankees have been off and running ever since. (ESPN -- Baseball)
A-Rod understands Ortiz's plight Aug 9, 2009
"It kind of gave me a chance to refocus and take, basically, a timeout from all the white noise I created for myself in the last year. I feel like now I have an opportunity to play baseball and focus on the gift that God gave me.". A-Rod came up big in the 15th inning for New York on Friday, rocketing a line drive into the left-center-field bullpen off Junichi Tazawa. (MLB.com -- NY Yankees Yankees)
Dealing with a Spirited Child Aug 6, 2009
A few hours before they go to sleep, parents can help kids wind down by playing relaxing quiet music, putting on some white noise and turning the lights down low. Help Spirited Kids with Social Skills. (Suite101.com)
Neuromonics used to treat constant ringing in the ears Aug 5, 2009
Other treatment devices for tinnitus use white noise to mask tinnitus, which many patients say can be as annoying as the condition itself. Neuromonics uses relaxing music, similar to what might be played during a massage. (KHOU.com, TX)
Public Enemies Jul 30, 2009
Light bleeds from windows, impressionist clouds are smeared across flat skies, and skeletal tree branches in a forest form a cross-hatched pattern suggesting white noise in the image, a loss of information. Unlike celluloid, video doesn t flatter. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
More articles by Heckler Jul 29, 2009
I'm not deaf, just trying to make myself heard over the white noise in this city. Thursday April 23, 2009. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Futility music Jul 18, 2009
Theres some debate as to whether this practice is a form of torture (as the UN Committee against Torture decided in a 1997 ruling against Israels practice of keeping Palestinian prisoners awake for days with loud music) or of inhuman and degrading treatment (as the European Court of Human Rights decided in the case of the RUCs use of white noise against IRA prisoners in the 1970s) ... After all, it could as easily use white noise, or sonic booms, Israels weapon of choice whenever it has... (Harper's Magazine)
Songbirds Reveal How Practice Improves Performance Jul 7, 2009
To train the birds, researchers monitored their singing and delivered white noise whenever a bird sang a particular syllable at a lower pitch than usual. "The bird hears this unexpected noise, thinks it made a 'mistake', and on future attempts gradually adjusts the pitch of that syllable upward to avoid repeating that error," Fee said. (Science Daily)
Tricks Can Calm Pets On 4th Of July Jul 3, 2009
If that's not enough, she said, you can create white noise for them by turning on a fan. Some owners might take it a step further and turn on a radio. (7 KETV Omaha)
She Keeps Us Smiling Jun 24, 2009
On a previous visit to our house, Avery left the Clydesdale I bought her posed on the window seat in our bedroom looking out on the lake, an open noise machine beside him, in case he needed white noise to cancel out any household sounds that might prevent him from sleeping. The newest animal to be added to Avery's menagerie is Bambi, which of course is a fawn. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Hits and misses at the APRAs Jun 24, 2009
Melbourne boys The Living End waited more than 15 years, but their first APRA nomination yielded the Song of the Year award for their rocking anthem White Noise. Their chief songwriter Chris Cheney described the song as "the bastard child born out of the ruins of two other songs - writing it proved to be a great learning experience for me''. Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton of The Presets took out Songwriter of the Year for their second full-length album Apocalypso. In other awards, R&B singer and... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Living End defies tradition to take out top song award Jun 24, 2009
MELBOURNE rock band The Living End has beaten a strong list of contenders to take out the APRA Song of the Year award for White Noise ... Beginning, unusually, with its chorus "All that I'm hearing from you is white noise" the song was inspired by The Beatles' She Loves You, Cheney told The Age, before he raced off to fly to Sweden for a show ... He admitted that it wasn't his favourite song on the White Noise album, but said it was the best for radio. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Neural Noise Created During Binocular Rivalry Jun 22, 2009
(May 27, 2005) Patients listening to their favorite music required much less sedation during surgery than did patients who listened to white noise or operating room. . (Science Daily)
Noisy Carnival ship ruins family cruise Jun 16, 2009
However, my biggest ally in combating travel noise is my iPod Touch loaded with an application called White Noise. The application emits numerous sounds to block out noise disturbances. (MSNBC -- Travel)
23-year-old aims to keep 93-year-old Le Petit open Jun 3, 2009
We are producing a musical that s opening on Broadway in October called White Noise. . (WWLTV.com, LA)
Digital Radio finally arrives Jun 1, 2009
There are, in fact, many people who do that, and for long-term radio listening - especially serious listening, not just background "white noise" - digital is the way. Looked at another way, digital radio is free-to-air, internet radio is not. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Cool Fun Things to do When Bored at... May 30, 2009
Gregorian Chant Radio for white noise to combat annoying cell phone chatterers. Antonio Vivaldi Radio to increase creativity. (Suite101.com)
How a daughter talks to her dad May 30, 2009
It sounded like static, an incipient white noise holding hostage otherwise erratic thoughts. Talking about operating systems counts as a conversation between my father and me. (CNN)
Goodbye Rattle: High-Tech Baby Gadgets May 29, 2009
Provides white noise or background noise from 10 relaxing tracks ... Sounds include: Prenatal, Lullaby, Dolphins, Car Ride, Heartbeat, or White Noise. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Husband and wife duos for top APRA gong May 27, 2009
Others in the category are Nick Cave for Dig Lazarus Dig, Empire of the Sun's Walking On A Dream, and Chris Cheney for The Living End's White Noise. The nominations were announced at an event in Sydney today, with The Potbelleez dominating with three nods. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
An industrial-strength Animal May 16, 2009
New numbers such as the ecstatic "Summertime Clothes" and a shimmering "My Girls" were amplified and expanded with looped, and loopy, repetition into what occasionally became a monochromatic throb of white noise (which was, depending on your point of view, either precisely the point or pointless after the seven-minute mark). Even older material like "Who Could Win a Rabbit," from 2004's homespun "Sung Tongs," had its acoustic DNA cannibalized into a club anthem. (Boston Globe)
Many in media strive for calm with flu story Apr 30, 2009
"We're saturating people with information," she said, "and I wonder when it does become white noise.". The epidemic got its most prominent public face a cute one, at that when Mexican health officials identified 5-year-old Edgar Hernandez of La Gloria, Mexico as the earliest known swine flu victim. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Dogs Who are Scared of Thunderstorm... Apr 28, 2009
Playing loud music or another form of white noise to cover the sounds of the thunderstorm may also help. If attempting environmental management for a dog which is scared of thunderstorms, the dog should first be accustomed to the darkened room along with the music or background noise provided. (Suite101.com)
Do-it-yourselfer Q&A Apr 9, 2009
Another strategy, which can be combined with earplugs, is to use inside "white noise" to counteract the outside noise. White noise is simply a recorded pleasant sound such as a babbling brook or waterfall ... For equipment and information, use a Internet search engine and the words White Noise Equipment. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Facebook: Population 200M, Faces an Identity Crisis Apr 9, 2009
With Twitter-like updates, the site has lost its intimacy, flooding us with a lot of white noise. It s become less personal and less social. (Salon)
Free Brainwave Entrainment MP3s Apr 4, 2009
Some makers use only white noise binaural beats, while others add relaxing hypnosis tracks or meditation music. The following are popular brands of binaural beats MP3s and CDs. (Suite101.com)
Ukulele player is astounding Mar 29, 2009
He works in ear-baffling chords and a spectrum of sound ranging from the quiet plop of a raindrop to roaring white noise. Solo, he pulls off "While My Guitar Gently Sleeps" with more muscle than did George Harrison, who was backed up by the rest of the Beatles and Eric Clapton. (Anchorage Daily News)
24 hrs of tweets Mar 27, 2009
All I could think of was that weird flick White Noisewith Michael Keaton. He played an architect who became obsessed with hearing dead people's voices through the white noise of radio and the static of television. (Globe and Mail)
High energy keeps Airborne Toxic Event aloft Mar 9, 2009
Swiped from the Don DeLillo novel "White Noise," the name portends doom, but Saturday night at the Paradise the sound of the LA quintet was a bright, upbeat mix of disco beats, chipper post-punk guitar riffs, and lead singer-songwriter Mikel Jollett's lugubrious croon. Inside the steamy club a sold-out crowd was happy to bear witness to the Event and sing along with Jollett's tantalizing tales of mixed-up lovers with mixed emotions. (Boston Globe)
Desperation fits Mikel Jollett and Airborne Toxic Event Mar 3, 2009
I have to remember to force air toward the front of my mouth," says Mikel Jollett, lead singer for indie rock buzz band the Airborne Toxic Event. He's talking about his vocal rehabilitation as he's healing from a bout of laryngitis and a partially paralyzed vocal cord. "If it sounds like I'm croaking, let me know, because it means I'm talking incorrectly," he says, croak-free on the phone from Minneapolis, where the band was doing an in-store performance. The quintet, which takes its name from... (Boston Globe)
Music critics identify the icons they don't like Mar 1, 2009
Sad, interesting, audacious music is fine, but Radiohead takes its scratchy strings, plodding drums, and crackles of white noise to an unrelentingly uneasy place. I guess that's the point, but that's not the way I want to feel when I listen to music. (Boston Globe)
'The New Soloist' concert hinges on drama and dexterity Feb 24, 2009
Hitomi Kaneko's 1991 flute duet "Miyabi" received a commanding performance at the hands of Tara Helen O'Connor and David Fedele, but the exotic gestures - overblown white noise, jittery rhythms - were deployed early on, then examined from various angles. Arthur Kampela's 1995 viola solo "Bridges" similarly used scratches, glissandi, and violent pizzicato, but seemed to have a comic self-awareness, an almost parodic sense of its virtuosic intensity; Daniel Panner's rendition had both the... (Boston Globe)
Lodi Unified School District will issue 390 lay-off notices to teachers (2902) Feb 19, 2009
RU4REAL wrote on Feb 18, 2009 7:34 PM:" FYI..... Every superintendent, asst. superintendent, director, manager, teacher, principal, vice-principal, supervisor, lead worker, etc, etc, hired by LUSD, had to ultimately be approved by the board before they could start work. Though the makeup of the board changes from year to year, this is the same board that is ELECTED by the public to serve in their best interest. The emotions that are being expressed at this period of time are somewhat perplexing... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Help! I'm in a baby swing and can't get out Feb 18, 2009
The swing has "enhanced electronics" that provide 10 classical songs, five nature sounds and white noise. How about a headset to go with that blankie. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
This Week In Apps Feb 12, 2009
Welcome to White Noise (which was also the name of our rap group in high school). The White Noise app provides 40 different ambient sounds designed to help users either fall asleep or just relax ... You can't put a price on a good nights sleep, but that didn't stop the White Noise developers from trying, luckily the fee is just a buck. (IGN Wireless Games)
