So the next time you are faced with an awkward/eerie/peaceful quiet, remember that Minnesota has taught the world about perfect silence.
You're welcome.
Love,
Minnesota.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Silence
Minnesota is home to the quietest place on Earth. Orfield Labs is a research facility in south Minneapolis that shares space with Sound 80 recording studios. Sound 80 isn't as heavily used for recording as it was in the past, when albums such as Bob Dylan's Blood on The Tracks were recorded. Today, the building is home to an anechoic chamber, used for research on various sound pressure level affected devices. Guinness Book of World Records cites the facility as "the quietest place on Earth," and home of the first ever digital recording studio. I've been in there, and let me tell you, negative sound pressure levels are weird. Ever hear your heart beat...from inside of you?
So the next time you are faced with an awkward/eerie/peaceful quiet, remember that Minnesota has taught the world about perfect silence.
You're welcome.
Love,
Minnesota.
So the next time you are faced with an awkward/eerie/peaceful quiet, remember that Minnesota has taught the world about perfect silence.
You're welcome.
Love,
Minnesota.
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Cool!!!! I learned something new today :) Thanks Joe, and THANKS, MINNESOTA!
ReplyDeleteAre we really not going to talk about the social implications of this post? That in addition to providing actual and historic silence in the form of an anechoic chamber, the natural reticence of the Minnesota character allows you to be on an empty street, pass within a foot of the only other living soul in sight and not be obligated to utter even an acknowledging gurgle? Peace. And. Quiet. You are welcome.
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact that Blood on the Tracks is merely an interesting footnote to this post shows once again just how thoroughly awesome is Minnesota.