That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —
For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.
Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.
I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.
With an arena, it sounds so big and full sometimes it can obstruct the way we sing because we're hearing so much slapback and things like that.
At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.
echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.
