Listen! An article on sounds that are fading away from our memory
During a recent visit to a wooded area deep in the Eastern Ghats I was awoken early one morning by a strange sound. It was still dark outside. I sat up sleepily. Again that clear sound cut through the early morning fog. I was wide awake! “Oh my God, I have heard that sound before” I thought. But I get ahead of my story. The sounds of the sea As a child my family lived in a house by the sea in old Vizag. So close to the sea in fact, that as the waves crashed on the beach in stormy weather, the salty spray went through our living room like spray from a giant salty cologne bottle. Twenty four hours a day we heard that sound. The ascending roar of waves rushing in; an extended crash as it broke upon the beach and a long fizzy sizzle made by billions of little bubbles bursting as it withdrew back into the sea again. The funny thing is that when we hear a sound for so long we tend to not listen to them anymore. It goes deep into the temporal cortex of our brains and embeds its...
