Silence and Sound
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Humans are noisy. The National Park Service estimates that all of our whirring, grinding, and revving machines are doubling or even tripling global noise pollution every 30 years.
A lot of that noise is negatively affecting wildlife and human health.
In this guest episode, the team from Outside/In takes us on an exploration of three sonic landscapes: noise, silence, and something in between.
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| 0:00.0 | Hub and spoke. Audio collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 0:24.7 | This season is all about silence. Each episode, we're exploring how we find stillness amidst the noise. |
| 0:33.9 | And today, we have a bonus episode for you. It's a story about silence and sound, and it comes to us from Outside In, which is a podcast where curiosity and the natural world collide. |
| 0:47.3 | I'll let our friends from outside in take it from here. |
| 0:57.0 | Nate? I'm going to tell you the start of a redemption arc. |
| 1:02.2 | Just the start? |
| 1:03.2 | For now. |
| 1:03.9 | And it doesn't have an happy ending either. |
| 1:06.5 | So this is Erica Walker. |
| 1:08.5 | She says that in a former life... |
| 1:10.6 | I was a failed architecture student, |
| 1:13.6 | among other things. And most recently, yeah, I was an artist. Like I made furniture and I was a bookbinder |
| 1:21.6 | as well, so I bound books. And she was living in a great spot in Brookline, Massachusetts. |
| 1:27.2 | Up until that point, I just remember my life was very peaceful. |
| 1:30.3 | I mean, I had upstairs neighbors. |
| 1:31.3 | They would be, you know, you'd hear them on occasion, but nothing like what happened when... |
| 1:36.3 | This is where things go downhill. |
| 1:40.3 | Because soon enough, she got upstairs neighbors, a couple with kids. |
| 1:46.5 | And from the first day they moved in, I just heard this do-do-do-do-do-do-do. |
| 1:50.8 | And it would last like 24 hours a day. |
| 1:54.2 | I could see how that would be a little annoying. |
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