Thursday, March 7, 2024

Truly, leave it to Beaver

Let you in on a secret? Two of them, actually.

Boys like noises.

And men are just boys with longer pants.

There was a scene on "Leave It To Beaver" when the Beav told Mama June (not THAT one!) that he was going over to Gilbert's house because Gilbert was working on some new noises.

THIS one!

From imitating frogs to making the sound of a car engine to providing onomatopoetic accompaniment to someone's story about eating too much at Ken's Big Boy, guys are right there with the right noise. It's just a thing we do, we don't want applause or money or anything, we just like something going on besides the hum of the Kelvinator in the kitchen.

So with that, I introduce to you, boys of all ages and genders, the perfect radio station for us, online at  https://noise-radio.com/. The station is in Holland, and they define themselves this way on their home page: 

Noise Radio is a non-commercial independent radio station. We broadcast 24/7 sound art related tracks such as fieldrecordings, soundscapes, nature recordings, radio and transmission art, experimental audio/music and audio made as a piece of art.

Listeners are invited to share sounds, so if you tune in and hear "Sausage and hominy sizzling in a pan," guess who??? 

These soundscapes, noises like rainfall and the sound of things melting and the "sonification of  weather data from the North pole" and a time-lapse recording of a pond freezing as a beaver walks around, provide the perfect background for whatever you're doing around the house...provided you're not doing the same thing at the same time! It could be confusing if your beaver was walking around the same way as the beaver on the radio.


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