Parry Sound

When I walked into the room, I couldn’t believe my eyes. No movement. No chatter. Did anyone even realize I was there? I was in the Memory Room, full of dementia and Alzheimer’s residents. I came, violin in hand, ready to play “In Christ Alone”. As I moved my bow along the strings, I felt as if no one even heard me. I finished, but no one clapped. I felt hopeless. Could anyone reach them? As I walked towards the door, the nursing home director caught my arm. “You may have thought they didn’t…

smell. Hearing is associated with the ear and how the sound waves travel through from external to internal ear. The external layer of the ear consists of the auricle, external acoustic meatus, and the tympanic membrane. Sound enters through the auricle, which carries the sound waves to the external acoustic meatus (i.e. ear canal). The external acoustic meatus in turn carries the sound waves to the tympanic membrane (i.e. eardrum). After the sound waves have traveled through the external ear,…

Imagine attending the most important meeting of your life. You walk through the door and take a seat. As you look around you realize everyone is wrapped up in conversation with one another, yet you can’t hear a single sound. You see everyone’s mouths moving, but you are surrounded by complete and utter silence. How would you go about communicating with the people around you? Would you try to speak even though you couldn’t hear your own voice? Would you try to read the lips of everyone beside you…

Caleb Fox Nate Kreuter English 101 10/4/14 Rhetorical Analysis On July 23rd, 2012 an article was in Sports Illustrated magazine that was written by Michael Rosenberg and it was titled, “Shattered”. This opinion article is very information filled. It was written in response to the controversy to remove the Joe Paterno statue or not. This statue is outside of Beaver Stadium at Penn State University, and it was going to be taken down because of the recent scandal that had taken place. Jerry…

“Tip Tap Tip Tap”. I hear the same cat-like clicking noise coming from behind the door to my right as I open my eyes groggily. “Click” I hear the door turn and open. As the noise gets closer to me, I notice the white sleeves of a long button-down shirt from my peripheral vision and immediately close my eyes, pretend to sleep and pray that I receive liberation from the painful prison. And as I hear my mother speaking with the scary man, I remember wondering why his lab coat was white. Growing up,…

of a telephone and possibly an emergency vehicle alarm, but we didn’t know if all of these elements would be heard during our walk. We do not feel that the sounds we were making changed throughout the walk. Our own sounds consisted mostly of the rustling of our clothes and our footsteps. Our sounds were drowned out by the more prominent sounds of the landscape. Interestingly enough, we also noticed that…

Ever since I was a child, music has been a big and valuable part of my life. Not only has it been a source of my entertainment and ambitions. It has allowed me to express myself when I have been depressed or heartbroken from a past relationship in which words or feeling cannot explain. In addition, even when the flood waters were entering my home during the two thousand sixteen Baton Rouge flood, my first reaction was to protect my family and preserve my instruments. Nothing else mattered. On…

Film Music dunnnn dun. dunnnn dun. dunnnn dun. dunnnn dun. dunnn dun. dunnn dun. dunn dun. dunn dun. The heavy sound of bows dragging across full basses, pulling from them one of the lowest notes in their register. A quick up-stroke, bringing out a pitch only just slightly higher than the first. The audience is on the edge of their seats waiting for the monster, the villain, the antagonist, the inevitable. They know that the evildoer of this tale will be making an entrance soon; and how do they…

has very long black hair tied in a ponytail and a medium length beard. As he walks up his stairs I can hear him turn on metal music and lock his door. I heard a faint voice coming from the unit behind ours and around the corner of the building the sound of a raspy…

Sound. Another complicated, complex idea humans struggle to completely understand. Sound is highly difficult to understand and explain. It is difficult because sight overpowers hearing. Additionally, sound is difficult to explain because it is affected deeply by different experiences, such as: Berine Krause’s personal experiences in his “First Notes” article. Also, sound is very different and unique which makes it hard to fully understand. The “First Notes” article and the passage from “Sound as…