Sarah Vowell Quote
I ask about the Quakers’ silent services. She describes them as not so much the absence of talking as the presence of god. Interesting. Hers is a more poetic, more profound description than what I call it: room tone. But a synonym for room tone is in fact presence, the sound of a room that audio engineers record for editing purposes. Every place on earth at any given moment has unique acoustics based on who and what is there. So actors, broadcasters, and musicians always have to stop and be still for a minute while a recording is made of what seems like emptiness but is actually the barely audible vibrations of life itself. I
Sarah Vowell
I ask about the Quakers’ silent services. She describes them as not so much the absence of talking as the presence of god. Interesting. Hers is a more poetic, more profound description than what I call it: room tone. But a synonym for room tone is in fact presence, the sound of a room that audio engineers record for editing purposes. Every place on earth at any given moment has unique acoustics based on who and what is there. So actors, broadcasters, and musicians always have to stop and be still for a minute while a recording is made of what seems like emptiness but is actually the barely audible vibrations of life itself. I
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