Audacious Audio and Quirks in the Kitchen

Writer: Murray Stewart.

The Power of Sound Like our other senses, sound plays an important role in our daily lives. Sometimes noises are a warning, like the doorbell or screeching tyres. Sometimes they’re eerie and downright spine-chilling. Other times, they’re a source of enjoyment, like the chirping of birds, a trickling waterfall, the purring of a kitten or the stillness of a sleeping baby.

All that, sadly, is just the sugar-coating on our regular consumption of ear-candy. Deep down inside lurks a fearsome ogre itching to inflict disturbing damage, but we’ll get to that later.

Over the years, a shrill soprano or two have been able to shatter glass, although I doubt there’s a future in it these days. And if you stand too long with your mouth open in front of a loudspeaker at a Thrash Metal concert, there’s enough power to blast both eardrums clean out of your head. As the expression ‘in one ear and out the other’ implies, folks could literally see right through you. (Latin: opticalis penitratus infinitum).

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