Word: ambient
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...Grasse's perfume industry has its origins, rather implausibly, in leather tanning. During the 16th century, tanners made scented leather gloves?a hot item in an age when poor sanitation and haphazard refuse disposal meant that ambient smells were much stronger than they are today. The leather was perfumed with essences of wild Mediterranean flowers?and as time went on, extracting these essences became a specialized task. Grasse's perfume industry was born...
...company is furthering its sonic exploration of the Big Apple with two new releases. A Wall Street CD will not only feature sounds of bustling trading floors, it will also showcase ambient electronica and turntable sounds from hip record labels like Tigersushi and 75 Ark. A Little Italy CD will take tourists to Albanese Meat and Poultry, a traditional butcher shop that features Momo the Butcher behind the counter. Vinny Vella, the self-proclaimed mayor of Elizabeth Street and a veteran character actor (Casino), narrates the CD, which includes Italian and Italian-American songs...
...himself as an engineer of extreme realism, and has spent the past four years figuring out stuff like how to create the most realistic reflections in lightbulbs and what ominous splatters of blood look like on a tiled bathroom floor. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails will provide the ambient sound. It has been a tough project, as shown by the swelling of Carmack's tiny operation, based in Mesquite, Texas, from 14 staffers to 20. The phenomenally intelligent Carmack tends to hire only programmers who know something he can't learn from them--and that's not many...
...that shake the seats not only in the theater where an action movie is being shown but in the one on the other side of the multiplex wall where some people are trying to watch a Merchant-Ivory film, if you don't mind. It's the explosion of ambient noise that seems to be everywhere, costing more and more people not only their sleep and their sanity but increasingly their hearing and health as well...
Noise can be controlled to an extent, depending on the source. Some of the biggest sources of ambient noise are highways and roads, but the cause is less honking horns or gunning engines--though those play a role--than tires hitting pavement. Pliable rubber making contact with asphalt doesn't seem as if it would produce a lot of noise but in fact it does, and in a lot of ways. As any spot on the tire strikes the highway, it hits with the thunk of a little rubber hammer. Also, the patch of tire that's in contact with...