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How to use sound in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sound? Here are some examples.

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It can sound fantastical and wifty and achingly naïve, informed by the last inklings of childhood.
Hakone grass also offers the auditory appeal of psithurism, the sound of rustling leaves.
Although it might sound immodest of me to say so, I am very proud of what we have accomplished.
All these technologies sound a bit ominous and 1984-ish when taken out of context.
In the short term, the introduction of live sound recording caused major difficulties in production.
She'd never heard the sound of sea gulls crying by the shore.
The sound of music wafted softly into the yard from our neighbor's house.
Moreover, he refused to even offer a hypothesis as to the cause of this force on grounds that to do so was contrary to sound science.
The following is a summary of the major sound changes affecting vowels in chronological order.
The southernmost varieties had completed the second sound shift, while the northern varieties remained unaffected by the consonant shift.
As a result, it can be difficult to predict the spelling of a word based on the sound.
Even when Robin is defeated, he usually tricks his foe into letting him sound his horn, summoning the Merry Men to his aid.
So, have pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one... wait, did that sound mansplainy?
The film was an early attempt at combining sound and film, music and words were recorded on phonograph records, to be played along with the film.
The play contains more musical cues than any other play in the canon as well as a significant use of sound effects.
De Rerum Natura provides mechanistic explanations for phenomena such as erosion, evaporation, wind, and sound.
From the 19th century accordions have been a popular and accepted part of the local folk sound.
In this work Delius begins to achieve the texture of sound that characterised all his later compositions.
One either likes it the moment one first hears it, or the sound of it is once and for ever distasteful to one.
Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
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Jones' basslines have been described as melodic and his keyboard playing added a classical touch to the band's sound.
Towards the end of their recording career, they moved to a more mellow and progressive sound, dominated by Jones' keyboard motifs.
He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.
Critic Alan di Perna praised Gilmour's guitar work as an integral element of Pink Floyd's sound.
Pink Floyd used innovative sound effects and state of the art audio recording technology during the recording of The Final Cut.
The process enabled an engineer to simulate moving the sound to behind, above or beside the listener's ears.
Sheer Heart Attack introduced new sound and melody patterns that would be refined on their next album, A Night at the Opera.
Like its predecessor, the album features diverse musical styles and experimentation with stereo sound.
Regent Sound Studios, a mono facility equipped with egg boxes on the ceiling for sound treatment, became the preferred facility.
It began with the sound of prison doors closing, and the accompanying music video included allusions to the trial of Oscar Wilde.
Its psychedelic sound was complemented by the cover art, which featured a 3D photo by Michael Cooper, who had also photographed the cover of Sgt.
The Rolling Stones are notable in modern popular music for assimilating various musical genres into their own collective sound.
This was followed by folk rock groups such as the Byrds, who based their initial sound on that of the Beatles.
Those bands who continued to record often simplified their sound, and the genre fragmented from the late 1970s onwards.
Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant and Pink Floyd opted for a harder sound in the style of arena rock.
Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Jeff Beck Group.
In 1978, Van Halen emerged from the Los Angeles music scene with a sound based around the skills of lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
In 2009, Bon Jovi released another number one album, The Circle, which marked a return to their hard rock sound.
Keyboard instruments are sometimes used to enhance the fullness of the sound.
The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a combined use of high volumes and heavy distortion.
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Palm muting creates a tighter, more precise sound and it emphasizes the low end.
The prominent role of the bass is also key to the metal sound, and the interplay of bass and guitar is a central element.
In 1968, the sound that would become known as heavy metal began to coalesce.
The sound developed by thrash groups was faster and more aggressive than that of the original metal bands and their glam metal successors.
Metallica brought the sound into the top 40 of the Billboard album chart in 1986 with Master of Puppets, the genre's first platinum record.
The new emo had a more refined sound than in the 1990s and a far greater appeal amongst adolescents than its earlier incarnations.
Escaping the 170bpm jungle basslines, the garage rooms had a much more sensual and soulful sound at 130bpm.
Among those credited with honing the speed garage sound, Todd Edwards is often cited as a seminal influence on the UK garage sound.
A major influence on jungle and drum and bass was the original Jamaican dub and reggae sound.
The resulting sound is a timbre that is punctuated by rhythmic variations in volume, filter cutoff, or distortion.
Notable mainstays in the live experience of the sound are MC Sgt Pokes and MC Crazy D from London, and Juakali from Trinidad.
The sound systems on site have a total power of 650,000 watts, with the main stage having 250 speakers.
A subtle type of sound reinforcement called acoustic enhancement is used in some opera houses.
The conductor unifies the orchestra, sets the tempo and shapes the sound of the ensemble.
By the time The Circus was released, Hollywood had witnessed the introduction of sound films.
One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the opportunity to record a musical score for the film, which he composed himself.
Like its predecessor, Modern Times employed sound effects but almost no speaking.
Alfred Hitchcock filmed the silent version with Sam Livesey as the Chief Inspector and the sound version with Harvey Braban in the same role.
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
In India, sound was the transformative element that led to the rapid expansion of the nation's film industry.
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These sound changes may be due in part to the influence of Continental Celtic languages.
The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the concept of cinema itself.
These appear to be the first publicly exhibited films with projection of both image and recorded sound.
Three major problems persisted, leading to motion pictures and sound recording largely taking separate paths for a generation.
It was a double system, that is, the sound was on a different piece of film from the picture.
If proper synchronization of sound and picture was achieved in recording, it could be absolutely counted on in playback.
Rich, a financier, giving them an exclusive license for recording and reproducing sound pictures under the Western Electric system.
The new year would finally see the emergence of sound cinema as a significant commercial medium.
The five studios agreed to collectively select just one provider for sound conversion.
The big sound film sensations of the year all took advantage of preexisting celebrity.
September 1928 also saw the release of Paul Terry's Dinner Time, among the first animated cartoons produced with synchronized sound.
Soon after he saw it, Walt Disney released his first sound picture, the Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie.
During 1929, most of the major European filmmaking countries began joining Hollywood in the changeover to sound.
Originally shot as a silent, Blackmail was restaged to include dialogue sequences, along with a score and sound effects, before its premiere.
Proper recording and playback of sound required exact standardization of camera and projector speed.
Variable frame rate, however, made sound unlistenable, and a new, strict standard of 24 fps was soon established.
In fact, the expense of sound conversion was a major obstacle to many overseas producers, relatively undercapitalized by Hollywood standards.
Just as the leading Hollywood studios gained from sound in relation to their foreign competitors, they did the same at home.
The other country in which sound cinema had an immediate major commercial impact was India.
Once the first talkie features appeared, the conversion to full sound production happened as rapidly in India as it did in the United States.
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While some regarded sound as irreconcilable with film art, others saw it as opening a new field of creative opportunity.
The emergence of sound film effectively separated deaf from hearing audience members once again.
During 1928, the studio was sold to Ludwig Blattner who connected it to the electricity mains and introduced a German system of sound recording.
Instinctively cinema proprietors had recourse to music, and it was the right way, using an agreeable sound to neutralize one less agreeable.
When sound came to movies, director Fritz Lang barely used music in his movies anymore.
The director has worked with sound designer Richard King and sound mixer Ed Novick since The Prestige.
British Library Sounds provides free online access to over 60,000 sound recordings.
Hawke and Sellers are generally held to have been autocratic and decisive, but in fact both relied heavily on sound professional advice.
He branched out into club work with a more modern sound in 2015 and has regular slots at London bars and nightclubs.
Stress in the Romance Languages mostly remains on the same syllable as in Latin, but various sound changes have made it no longer so predictable.
In these languages, however, further sound changes have resulted in various irregularities.
Significant sound changes affected the consonants of the Romance languages.
The special sound of fungi is due to a unique local fusion between African and European music.
In 1930 Josef von Sternberg directed The Blue Angel, the first major German sound film, with Marlene Dietrich.
As range shortened, so did the time taken for the sound pulse to reach, and then return from, the target.
The Chinese and Malays tend to miss off the 's' for plurals from words in English, making it sound quaint and unfinished.
The sound of Mistress Affery cautiously chaining the door before she opened it, caused them both to look that way.
In addition to these substantive requirements the derogation must be procedurally sound.
Bruno Wenn of the German DEG recommends to provide a sound economic policymaking and good governance to attract new investors.
What really bugs me is that they changed Yotsuba's speech pattern. I don't want my favorite manga character to sound like a moeblob.
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The stingrays started to associate the sound of the boat motors with food, and thus visit this area year round.
The process was technically sound, with a systematic adherence to established voting procedures.
To identify artillery targets, the army operates weapon locators such as the MAMBA Radar and utilises artillery sound ranging.
Bell's father taught him and his brothers not only to write Visible Speech but to identify any symbol and its accompanying sound.
After setting up his workshop, Bell continued experiments based on Helmholtz's work with electricity and sound.
Returning to Boston in fall 1873, Bell made a fateful decision to concentrate on his experiments in sound.
Bell thought it might be possible to generate undulating electrical currents that corresponded to sound waves.
During his Volta Laboratory period, Bell and his associates considered impressing a magnetic field on a record as a means of reproducing sound.
As a child with motorphobia, she used to grab her father's hand at the slightest sound of an approaching vehicle.
To do this, it is important that SEPA has a sound science and knowledge base.
One kind of inconsistency is due to the presence of several letters in the script for the same sound.
There are various ways of Romanization systems of Bengali created in recent years which have failed to represent the true Bengali phonetic sound.
In matters of sound, English alveolar consonants map as retroflexes rather than dentals.
The fada serves to lengthen the sound of the vowels and in some cases also changes their quality.
These performances were intended as works of a new art form combining sculpture, dance, and music or sound, often with audience participation.
It also appears at the end of the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the first Holmes sound film.
However, the arrival of sound cinema in the 1930s led to the closure or transformation of most theatres.
I'm a musicaholic. Losing my hearing is one of the worst things I can think of. I'd have a lot of trouble living in a world without sound.
This tends to give the music a more punctuated, bouncy sound that can be especially well suited to hornpipes or jigs.
English concertinas, by contrast, sound the same note for any given button, irrespective of the direction of bellows travel.
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He was a British national from birth, and as Southampton Row is within the sound of Bow Bells, Barbirolli always regarded himself as a Cockney.
While generally preferring the sound of guest vocalists, Oldfield has frequently sung both lead and backup parts for his songs and compositions.
The brothers attempted to assemble a live stage band that could replicate their studio sound.
Joining a 'computer group' may sound incredibly anorakish but you'll probably find that most of the other members are bearably human!
Kerouac's orality, learned growing up in a relatively antiliterate culture, encouraged him to generate sound continually.
The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle.
Wherever possible, it is best to record your sound effects in the location as they will contain the right atmos for the location.
The agency has been at pains to stress that its decisions are still based on sound science.
Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.
The buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey than it had before.
They worked completely in unison, doubling the parts in a mirror-like fashion that was a sight to behold and a sound to behear.
If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
An English syllable includes a syllable nucleus consisting of a vowel sound.
Suddenly it is stiller, except for a belchy groan. Then a high whiny sound, gradually diminishing, a sort of shush, and finally all is quiet.
In the process, he managed to make the Republican tax cut sound like a blast from the past.
The sound went from a bloomly, euphonic sound to a warm fuzzy sound. Is this due to break in?
He remembers the sad, droning sound of a blowhorn from a dredge barge, a plea for help as it was swept out to sea.
A few moments later they heard the sound of an engine, and a muddy shooting brake appeared on the road behind them.
The sound of it was scarce louder than the hiss of the rain, a multitude of soft bubblings and squelchings.
So every time he walked near the defendant, he hummed out a soft little bzzzt, like the sound of an electric charge going through wires.
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The sound of the arrows was bzzzt, bzzzt, like the buzzing of flies. I know of no more maddening noise than the singing of arrows past the ear.
As she walked to JoJo's house, Katie ran a stick along a fence. She liked the clickity-clackity sound.
Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys.
He combines the best of classical music with the excitement of the modern sound.
Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
Constructs with good predictive efficiency allow the construer to make sound predictions about what is likely to happen next in their world.
The implication has often been that they need to consume mass quantities of fast-paced sound, graphics and animation.
When we were playing at the top of our ability and really cranking, the whole thing could sound like a jet plane taking off in the club.
Then there was the sound of a struggle, and I knew that the attendants were dealing with him.
As part of its death throes, the printer made a grinding sound and then never worked again.
In the new Turkish alphabet each sound is represented by a single letter, sometimes with diacritical hooks.
Thanks to digital remastering, you can really hear the sound of the music at last.
Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.
Paul was distressingly clean, but Babbitt reveled in a good sound dirtiness, in not having to shave till his spirit was moved to it.
Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not.
English contains a number of sounds and sound distinctions not present in some other languages.
Which meant she'd sound like a gigantic douche-canoe if she asked him if he had any, like, psychic powers or whatever.
Let's say you're at school and you accidentally drop a bomb in class. Try coughing or dropping a book to cover up the sound.
My family at times seem to think they are aristocrats, at other times I swear I can hear the muffled sound of dueling banjos.
That is the simple account of the motivation for the phenomenon of sound symbolism or echoism.
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Their palette was covered with heavily effected guitars, synthetic loops and samples, electronic drums, and cold industrial sound effects.
The mechanism of landmine detection is to ensonify the ground with an acoustic source and measure the intensity of the returning sound waves.
The humming sound and the unvarying white light induced a sort of faintness, an empty feeling inside his head.
He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.
The fine rain blew very softly, filmily, but the wind made no noise. Nothing made any sound.
To improve the sound the acousticians, JaffeHolden, lined up flangelike panels along the front of the side walls to bounce sound inward.
You said you are using flopticals in your sound studio? Is that where you use it mostly?
Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.
Inside, the Golden Lion was fugged with the smoke of too many cigarettes and the unhappy sound of a darts team practising.
Mayer made over a dozen fuzz boxes for Hendrix, using several different designs customized to the sound Hendrix wanted.
This vowel is similar to the Catalan sound in the words Jordi or sola and to the Galician sound in the words ola or po.
Do you want to sound like you're on the cutting edge of geek chic? Of course you do! There's no reason for Geek to sound like Greek anymore.
Conjugating hamzated verbs is a little harder than conjugating sound verbs, but much easier than weak ones.
The Remove dormitory echoed to the old, familiar sound of Bunter's hefty snore.
The two men heard a sound from above, and looked up to see three police helijets hovering overhead.
English has undergone many historical sound changes, some of them affecting all varieties, and others affecting only a few.
Further complications have arisen through sound changes with which the orthography has not kept pace.
She tried to make this sound hipsterishly arch and mocking, but she wanted to know.
For sound changes before and after the Old English period, see Phonological history of English.
This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones, that is, of words with different meanings but the same or nearly the same sound.
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On the other hand, if you preserve me safe and sound, I shall be an eternal example of your clemency.
The single reed iterations were often idioglots because of the simple structural design required to produce such a sound generator.
It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating.
Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
Oh, this is a fair place to spend eternity. The air smells like honeysuckle. The wind in the pine trees makes a joysome sound.
It was common to hear the sound of a brass band whilst strolling through parklands.
Ker-thump, shatter, shatter, Ker-thump, shatter, the sound of the round thermos rolling towards the stage.
When a continuous sound was heard from the second beam the crew knew they were above the target and began dropping their bombs.
Most airbreathing jet engines that are in use are turbofan jet engines, which give good efficiency at speeds just below the speed of sound.
With the exception of scramjets, jet engines, deprived of their inlet systems can only accept air at around half the speed of sound.
Producer Rhett Davies played a key role in the band's sound, adding a cleaner, more Germanic Kraftwerkian sheen.
I could hear the sound of the janitor's lackadaisical scrubbing against the wooden floor.
He was disturbed while writing it in June 1667 by the sound of gunfire as Dutch warships broke through the Royal Navy on the Thames.
The updated design is quiet even by modern standards, particularly on carpet as it muffles the sound.
Once inside the house, everything was aflutter until I was safe and sound.
After jungle's peak in cultural significance, it had turned towards a harsher, more techstep influenced sound, driving away dancers, predominantly women.
The passing of the bore causes a churning of the water, and the myriads of tiny bubbles popping contributes much of the roaring sound made by the bore.
The monophonic sound is fine and on most of the episodes, it can be played back with or without the laughtrack, though without the laughtrack it seems a bit naked.
After a while he descended the steps into the road again and he stood there and looked all about him and listened for any sound at all but there was nothing.
He also formulated an empirical law of cooling, made the first theoretical calculation of the speed of sound, and introduced the notion of a Newtonian fluid.
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At the sound of the starting gun, they were off and running lickety-split.
The guns on the fortress responded, but the small calibre made them sound as if they were yapping like bandogs while the bombers bayed and gave tongue like hounds in cry.
Aeolism, or the emphasis on the form or sound of words per se rather than on their meaning or sense, presently flourishes under many dignified guises.
The power cars are powered by an English Electric 4SRKT engine, nicknamed 'Thumpers' due to their characteristic sound, and have two English Electric 538 traction motors.
Thus, by playing across the rows, the player can avoid changes in bellows direction from note to note where the musical objective is a smoother sound.
Other Bristol labels such as Cafe Bass have also helped to push through a sound categorised as 'bass music' with the help of influential artists such as Lone Ranger.
While the introduction of sound led to a boom in the motion picture industry, it had an adverse effect on the employability of a host of Hollywood actors of the time.
On the other hand, a given spelling usually leads to a predictable sound.
There's no way not to sound like a cold-hearted biotch here.
These practices sometimes include community dancing, singing of Kirtans and Bhajans, with sound and music believed by some to have meditative and spiritual powers.
The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl.
The cathedral is covered by a huge expanse of lead and whilst the majority of the wooden framework remains sound, much of the lead itself needs replacing.
They used to play Burzumesque BM, but moved on to a Doomy sound.
The sound of music pumping from the arcades was one thing, this was a standard sound expected in a seaside resort, but the cacophony of the boy racers was not.
The style was used most often in office buildings, but it also appeared in the enormous movie palaces that were built in large cities when sound films were introduced.
Buster Keaton was eager to explore the new medium, but when his studio, MGM, made the changeover to sound, he was quickly stripped of creative control.
Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street.
As the police and the council made me very well aware, the buzz had been around the raves and the market sound systems and in the travellers' fields for years.
Moreover, it is to be remembered that a poor speller is a poor pronouncer. The ear does not mark the sound any more exactly than the eye marks the letters.
The subject of Catacoustics, or the doctrine of reflected sound, is, perhaps, the most unsatisfactory in its results of any branch of physical science.
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A Panther Cauteth, which word is taken from the sound of his voice.
A heated, in-door pool flanked by sumptuous daybeds where dark-slated walls, fiber-optic mood lighting, underwater sound system, and soothing waterfall deliver serious chill.
Thus one pair of dolphins talking can sound like two pairs of dolphins talking, one pair exchanging clickings, the other pair exchanging whistles.
Except in epic poetry, they tended to use a familiar vocabulary, giving it poetic value by imaginative combinations of words and by rich sound effects.
Although most marine fishes studied thus far cannot detect sound frequencies above about 500 Hz, at least some clupeids can detect considerably higher frequencies.
Then there came a mellow noise, very low and mournsome, not a sound to be afraid of, but to long to know the meaning, with a soft rise of the hair.
He didn't always explain what his words meant, but children can work them out because they often sound like a word they know, and he loved using onomatopoeia.
You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.
These initial forays into experimentation with sound led Bell to undertake his first serious work on the transmission of sound, using tuning forks to explore resonance.
Locke's empiricism was an attempt at understanding the basis of human understanding itself and thereby devising a proper manner for making sound decisions.
Most of India's early talkies were shot in Bombay, which remains the leading production center, but sound filmmaking soon spread across the multilingual nation.
This song would sound better with the addition of a cowbell.
Bell concentrated on experimenting with electricity to convey sound and later installed a telegraph wire from his room in Somerset College to that of a friend.
Silent films had presented only limited competition, but by the end of the 1920s, films like The Jazz Singer could be presented with synchronized sound.
The sound was the stroke of a bell from the tower of East Endelstow Church.... The death-knell of an inhabitant of the eastern parish was being tolled.
Uncle Roger, in his death throes, made a sound and reached outward.
The silent version of Blackmail actually ran longer in theaters and proved more popular, largely because most theaters in Britain were not yet equipped for sound.
The Kironian had remained in deep sleep until alerted by a high-pitched squeaky sound. When the Kironian woke, everything seemed as though it had just left Kiron.
In the 2000s, with songs and pieces available as digital sound files, it has become easier for music to spread from one country or region to another.
Dangdut attempts to form many popular music genres like rock, pop, and traditional music to create this new sound that lines up with the consumers' tastes.
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All of the disparate influences on their first two albums had coalesced into a bright, joyous, original sound, filled with ringing guitars and irresistible melodies.
Struggling to compete with the volume of sound generated by screaming fans, the band had grown increasingly bored with the routine of performing live.
Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.
To some extent the Nore Mutiny may be regarded as analogous to the distempering irruption of contagious fever in a frame constitutionally sound, and which anon throws it off.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, the science fiction comedy radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was innovative in its use of music and sound effects.
The sound even called back the departing senses of the dying doggess. She drew me to her with her paws, and made an effort to lick me. The action quite melted me.
This was also perhaps the first feature film anywhere to significantly explore the artistic possibilities of joining the motion picture with recorded sound.
Some sound of dismay must have escaped my lips, for Jo narrowed his eyes on me. 'Doogheno or dabheno?' he asked in a low voice, unable to diagnose it for himself.
From every schooner, dories were being dropped into the shining, clear water. The sound of voices and the splashes of oars carried across the sea.
Though Mason's musical contributions were minimal, he stayed busy recording sound effects for an experimental Holophonic system to be used on the album.
The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical.
A musical comedy with a barebones plot, it is memorable for its formal accomplishments, in particular, its emphatically artificial treatment of sound.
Sir Maurice made a rough, dyspeptic sound, as if chewing a mint.
Throughout their career, Pink Floyd experimented with their sound.
Penman and I have taken half an ecky each, but mair coke would be sound.
Outside of the comedic field, the sort of bold play with sound exemplified by Melodie der Welt and Le Million would be pursued very rarely in commercial production.
You make it sound as though moving house is the end of the world.
The system used a conventional stereo tape to produce an effect that seemed to move the sound around the listener's head when they were wearing headphones.
As well as the armed forces using Pinewood, The Royal Mint and Lloyd's of London were installed onto sound stages and opened for business for the duration.
Is the sound short, long or nasal? Sounds like mission impossible!
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To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
In 1930, British and Dominion bought three new sound stages from British International Pictures Ltd on the adjoining site before their construction was completed.
Some of the ground work for the development of this sound can be attributed to their former producer Roy Thomas Baker, and their engineer Mike Stone.
He released the Atlantic Crossing album for his new record company, using producer Tom Dowd and a different sound based on the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
Kevin Parker of Tame Impala has said that listening to the Bee Gees after taking mushrooms inspired him to change the sound of the music he was making in his album Currents.
The fresh smell of salt air, the sound of the crashing swell, the soothing immersion in the water, the sight of dolphins playing and fish frenzying beneath my board.
It's a Dali-esque frightmare of liquescent forms, a pseudo-organic samplescape congested with scrofulous sound tentacles and slithery slimeshapes.
Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.
In essence, the sound was captured by a microphone and translated into light waves via a light valve, a thin ribbon of sensitive metal over a tiny slit.
This gives a good soft clipping effect and a good fuzz sound.
Tamil dialects are primarily differentiated from each other by the fact that they have undergone different phonological changes and sound shifts in evolving from Old Tamil.
In 1923, two Danish engineers, Axel Petersen and Arnold Poulsen, patented a system that recorded sound on a separate filmstrip running parallel with the image reel.
The ones which cause me the most trouble are various garageware sound file editors. One of them will crash Win2K if I run it and run an ascii editor at the same time.
The first production music library was set up by De Wolfe in 1927 with the advent of sound in film, the company originally scored music for use in silent film.
They likewise passed into the deep goyle, where I could not see them, and then, almost immediately, the chorus ceased, nor for some minutes did I hear another sound.
These were the first true sound films exhibited by a Hollywood studio.
Heimdall is the watchman of the gods.... So acute is his ear that no sound escapes him, for he can even hear the grass grow and the wool on a sheep's back.
Superior recording and amplification technology was now available to two Hollywood studios, pursuing two very different methods of sound reproduction.
During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock, while others began to return to a hard rock sound.
Bell also thought that multiple metal reeds tuned to different frequencies like a harp would be able to convert the undulating currents back into sound.
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In 1983, the Library absorbed the National Sound Archive, which holds many sound and video recordings, with over a million discs and thousands of tapes.
Not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them.
Often, whereas one button will sound a given note on bellows compression, an alternative button in a different row will sound the same note on bellows expansion.
It is sometimes possible to give approximate dates for the borrowing of individual Latin words based on which patterns of sound change they have undergone.
On May 20, 1927, at New York's Roxy Theater, Fox Movietone presented a sound film of the takeoff of Charles Lindbergh's celebrated flight to Paris, recorded earlier that day.
A few letter pairs were used as digraphs, representing a single sound.
These were the two most acclaimed sound motion pictures to date.
Hydrostatic locks are being successfully employed in tower cookers, and have been demonstrated to be sound in reduced size form from an engineering standpoint.
The development of commercial sound cinema had proceeded in fits and starts before The Jazz Singer, and the film's success did not change things overnight.
She was of sound mind, spoke for herself the merciness of the Lord.
This shift is not explicable by the application of accepted sound laws, and has been attributed to the effects of contact with a substrate language.
Sound implicates these obscure tethers, which connect sound to noise, thereby giving sound its sense. The implicated difference inholds an obscure reserve of sense.
Suddenly a lovely sound filled the air. Ariel turned toward it. Nefazia was sitting on the rock, singing. Her song was low and sweet, like a mermother crooning to her baby.
I need to fiddle with the strings on my violin. It doesn't sound in tune.
In this way c surmounted by an inverted circumflex accent stands for our sound of ch, which in Russian, Polish, or Servian words, we usually see spelled cz.
It does sound like a girl's name, though, doesn't it? Caroline is saying.
Black Sabbath had developed a particularly heavy sound in part due to an industrial accident guitarist Tony Iommi suffered before cofounding the band.
We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic. But it doesn't do any of that.
Budgie brought the new metal sound into a power trio context.
Alternatively, although Bell had detected a slight sound on his first test, the bullet may have been lodged too deeply to be detected by the crude apparatus.

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