Sound and Silence with Sekishi and Daizan

[RichardH]

At the Annual CNE fair in Toronto yesterday. According to the announcer ( a visiting U.S. airforce officer) this is the sound of a "full spectrum dominance weapons platform", an F-22. Being this sound was a very different experience than being the sound of rain yesterday morning while sitting. It completely filled the body with vibration, and was strangely frightening and pleasurable in one feeling. There have been calls to discontinue the airshows over this city, because it is home to many new arrivals from war zones, who suffer from PTSD. The airshows will continue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sxFB2OZ5M0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sax2XgqCWs

Gassho
Daizan

Sat today/LAH

[Jakuden]

Wow! That's amazing. It's actually kind of nostalgic for me, as my Dad used to bring us to air shows a lot when I was a kid. I remember the Harrier showing off its hovering capability overhead.
Gassho
Jakuden
SatToday/LAH


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[Seishin]

Reminded me of the Farnbrough air show, late 60s early 70s and seeing/hearing an F1 Phantom take off. Man that was loud !

STD

[Myogan]

Sounds 8,9 &10

http://www.hearing.nihr.ac.uk/public/auditory-examples-sounds-of-tinnitus

Decreases with the sound of a baby's laugh.

Gassho
Sat

[Sekishi]

Back in July Doshin sent me a great post-monsoon video of toads coming up from underground. But I didn't notice the message until today -- my apologies to all!

Now however, the audio is in our Soundcloud playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/treeleaf-zendo/doshins-recording-toads-after-monsoons?in=treeleaf-zendo/sets/treeleaf-art-circle-field-recordings

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat #lah

[Sekishi]

Also, here is a recent recording of a summer thunderstorm from Shoka:

https://soundcloud.com/treeleaf-zendo/shokas-recording-summer-heatwave-rainstorm?in=treeleaf-zendo/sets/treeleaf-art-circle-field-recordings

Gassho,
Sekishi #sat #lah

[taiyaki]

perfect thread. i'd include the sense of smell too.

currently :
im at home, the rain just stopped
i smell earth and light tangy notes from my essential oil burner

gassho, ryk
sat today lah

[RichardH]

perfect thread. i'd include the sense of smell too.

currently :
im at home, the rain just stopped
i smell earth and light tangy notes from my essential oil burner

gassho, ryk
sat today lah

Beautiful. Thank you.

Gassho
Daizan

sat today
LAH

[Seishin]

Lovely Ryk. I also have wonder about capturing such smells when making my recordings. If only we had the technology. One day perhaps for now words will have to do.

STMIZ la

Toby

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[taiyaki]

we could at least try our best with words....



gassho, ryk
sattodaylah

[RichardH]

The haunting sound of WW2 British warplanes over the city at 11/11/11.

https://soundcloud.com/richard-herman-700471910/november-11-2017-11-10-45-am

Gassho
Daizan

Sat today/LAH

[Kotei]

The haunting sound of WW2 British warplanes over the city at 11/11/11.
(...)

They sound so massive and assertive and mix with memories from old b/w war films.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[RichardH]

They sound so massive and assertive and mix with memories from old b/w war films.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

Today propeller driven planes are either light with small engines, or large turboprops, which are quiet. These things had heavy engines, both the bombers and the fighters which were made to accelerate. My mother talked about the raids over london and the fighting in the channel, and how she could hear the heavy base thrum and drone. I was born in 65 but for some reason whenever I hear that sound it gives me chills. Remembrance Day in Canada is not a flag waving, nationalist, event. There are cenotaphs and flags, but it does not play into jingoism. It is remembering the madness and waste of 1914-1918. I'm not sure about other countries but here the symbol of the day is the poppy, which grows in Flanders.

Gassho
Daizan

sat today

[Kotei]

Thank you Daizan.

I remember my mother talking about the sound, too.
She has childhood memories about WWII nights in Germany, Hamburg, without sleep, listening into the void.
Often, the sound of the bombers was there before that of the sirens.
Those were not only memories of fear, but also those of positive expectation.
My Granny organised quite some toys and when the bombs were about to fall around them,
she and the children of the neighbourhood came together, playing at night in the shelter under my grandparents house.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.